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The Municipal Leaders Conference was an international community stakeholder forum to which primarily mayors and /or local decision-makers from around the world were invited. This high-policy event focussed on awareness-raising at the community action level concerning renewable energies and energy efficiency models. The local and regional levels play an important role in disseminating renewable energies and promoting energy efficiency. Towns, municipalities and rural areas in the North and South urgently need to develop sustainable energy policies. The use of renewable energy technologies is a win-win strategy for both industrial and developing countries. In order to make local political decision-makers heard, to benefit from their experience, and to work out a local government position towards sustainable energy policies with specific proposals and self-commitments, the Service Agency Communities in One World (Servicestelle Kommunen in der Einen Welt SKEW / InWEnt) in cooperation with Agenda Transfer/National Service Agency for Local Agenda 21 were organising this conference for international municipal leaders within the framework of the International Conference for Renewable Energies 2004.

Local Governments' Final Declaration

Press Release (1 June 2004)