The Hydrogen Economy

Believe in the necessity to join efforts to prepare for a hydrogen economy based on renewable energy sources so that the human species may finally become a community fully integrated in the earth's ecosystem and promote a new hydrogen based energy regime that will be more sustainable in relationship to local and regional environmental resources which must be preserved for our future generations, and in particular:

1. That to be sustainable, the hydrogen economy should be based on renewable energy technologies and not lead to an increase in use of fossil fuels and nuclear power;
2. Recognize that a hydrogen economy based on renewable sources will help achieving the dream of pollution-free urban environments and promoting the satisfaction of basic necessities of the local communities through their energy self-sufficiency;
3. Participate actively to the European debate on the hydrogen economy and to all information and ideas exchanges aimed at fostering the transition towards the hydrogen economy;
4. Plan to present fully integrated renewable hydrogen pilot projects for all possible private and public use (such as for instance, urban lighting heating and cooling systems, telecommunication and transports), participating in priority to European projects aimed at experimenting the territorial distribution, installation, maintenance and management of renewable hydrogen based systems like fuel cells of different types and size, and renewable and alternative energy equipment so to test how to operate an hydrogen based local economy;
5. Support full co-operation between the local administrations and the energy industry, in particular the renewable energies industry for an hydrogen economy free from any polluting emission of energy productions based on CO2 or on nuclear power;
6. Support the commitment of the European Union for the renewable energies as shown with directive 2001/77/EC of 27th of September 2001 for the promotion of electricity produced from renewable sources of energy in the internal electricity market, and look forward to the publication of the first member states analytical report on renewable energies due on 27 of October 2003 as per article 2.3 of said directive, and to the first Commission report on the implementation of the directive due for the 27th of October 2004;
7. Promote the creation of consortia aimed at the purchase, rent or leasing of equipment for fuel cells, and for the production of hydrogen from renewable sources;
8. Commit to spread awareness on the benefits of the hydrogen economy through specific communication campaigns at local, national and European level and also among members and associates;
9. Commit to experiment the creation of interactive networks of small energy producers-consumers in conformity to the FACTS (Flexible Alternative Current Transmission System) technology, to allow access to the benefits of an hydrogen based economy to private individuals, consumers, SMEs and citizen associations;
10. Commit to create priority relationships between the organizations of the cooperative and workers unions movement and he local administrations in view of Distributed Generation Associations (DGA) capable of attracting large numbers of producers-consumers and help developing a truly democratic energy regime;
11. Are available to experiment fiscal incentives and financing schemes aimed at permitting the purchase of renewable energies and hydrogen equipment and acceleration the transition towards the hydrogen economy, on the blue print of models already existing in other regions of the world.