| Beyond Kyoto
Hereby, the participants of RIO 5 – Word Climate & Energy Event, assembled in the same venue as the 1992 Earth Summit, declare their commitment to strongly promote renewable energy to preserve the global climate, to decrease environmental damages, to reduce dependence on energy imports, to increase energy security, to provide energy services to everyone, and to contribute to economic stability. On the occasion of the implementation of the Kyoto-treaty on February, 16th 2005, more than 200 participants from more than 20 countries at the RIO 5 – World Climate & Energy Event give their support to the measures and objectives agreed to by the signatory states of the Kyoto-treaty. It is recognized that the Kyoto-treaty is a significant first step towards global sustainability. However, a 5.2% reduction of CO2 emissions by just the Kyoto signatories will be insufficient to prevent damaging effects of global warming, which are already beginning to be felt in many parts of the world. Considering the disastrous climate change consequences that humanity is facing, all people and all countries urgently need to take much stronger and more effective actions now. Therefore, we urge that each human being should not exceed the sustainable carbon dioxide emission rate (or greenhouse gas equivalent) of 3 metric tons per year, based on today’s world population. The RIO 5 conference has shown that mature technologies and strategies are already available to supply our global energy needs in an efficient and renewable way today. Therefore, we need to implement renewable energy technologies much more progressively. Nuclear energy cannot be considered to be an alternative to a renewable energy supply due to its unsolved problems of waste disposal, reactor safety, nuclear arms proliferation and terrorism. The Participants of RIO 5 Rio de Janeiro 17th of February 2005 | 
