renewables 2004: Media accreditation beginning now
Online registration only - Deadline for registration is 14 May 2004

23 March 2004. Starting immediately, representatives of the national and international media can acquire their accreditation for the International Conference for Renewable Energies (renewables 2004). The accreditation process can be carried out online only at www.renewables2004.de/en/press/accreditation.asp. Deadline is Friday, 14 May 2004.

Conference identification cards for members of the media will be issued on site in Bonn (end of May). Presentation is required of a valid passport or personal ID and a valid press ID, the numbers of which have been previously submitted for accreditation. Detailed information on when and where IDs can be picked up will soon be available on the conference website. To ensure smooth procedures even under conditions of increased security, journalists holding annual accreditations will need to be accredited specifically for the conference and are therefore likewise requested to fill in the form.

More than 1000 international decision-makers are expected to attend the governmental conference which will be held from 1 - 4 June 2004, at the International Congress Centre (Internationales Kongresszentrum Bundeshaus Bonn, IKBB). Among those expected are governmental delegations headed by ministers responsible for energy, the environment, and development and planning, as well as representatives of the United Nations and other international organisations, non-governmental organisations, civil society and the private sector. The conveners - the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) - anticipate that about 100 ministers from around the world will attend. In the invitation he issued to all governments, German Chancellor Gerhard Schr�der briefly referred to the opportunity the conference offers to express the international community's firm political will to expand the use of renewable energies and through concrete measures and voluntary commitments to lend fresh impetus to their global development.

Further details on the conference structure, its goals and expected outcomes are found in the Second Announcement of the conference, which appears in four languages and which you can download as a pdf file at www.renewables2004.de/en/2004/documentcenter.asp.