Interviews

:: The New Solar Challenge: Quality and Price

After a difficult business year 2009 with heavy declines in the solar market in the first half of the year and a noticeable relaxation in the second half, many experts predict a revival of the industry for 2010 and beyond.

:: Mental barriers were the main obstacles on the way to IRENA

Interview by Franz Alt with Dr. Hermann Scheer on the long way to IRENA. Published in

:: The Dalai Lama: "I’m going to return to Tibet"

The Dalai Lama: The financial crisis mainly teaches us that we have to learn a new modesty.

:: 10 minutes of Glasnost with Gorbachev

Mikhail Gorbachev was in parliament (26.05.2008) for the Energy Globe Award where he picked up a lifetime achievement award.

:: The Dalai Lama: "Tibet is a part of China"

Dalai Lama: "The Chinese Government will inevitably have to open up more to western journalists than hitherto. The Olympic Games can thus be a big help for more progress. And China as the biggest nation in the world has deserved these Games. I hope that the country will soon become more transparent."

:: The Dalai Lama: “Tibet will be free”

On 27 July 2005 the Dalai Lama received the Hessian peace prize from Mr. Koch, the local State Premier, in Wiesbaden. The TV reporter Franz Alt spoke with the spiritual and political leader of Tibet beforehand about peace and human rights. It was the 21st meeting between the Dalai Lama and Franz Alt.

:: "Is there an economical miracle in ecological goods?"

"Hollywood’s biggest movie stars like Julia Robert and Leonardo di Caprio teach us how. Ecological awareness becomes trendy and Germany as export champion helps with its highly developed environmental technology. Is there an ecological economic miracle taking place?"

:: Mojib Latif: Climate change has to have top political priority

Mojib Latif, 52, is a professor at the Leibniz-Institute for Marine Sciences in Kiel. Part of his research consists of developing climate models and studying man’s influence on climate. For his achievements, he received the “Sverdrup Gold Medal” from the American Meteorological Society and he is the author of several popular science books on climate change.

:: Dr. Gerhard Knies in BBC about Concentrating Solar Power

Own Transcript of the Interview with Dr. Gerhard Knies, BBC Radio 4, "The World Tonight".

:: “Renewables can best reduce the economic risks”

Economic expert Shimon Awerbuch on how renewable energy can make electricity cheaper. Interviewed by Peter Ahmels and Hanne May, Photographed by Axel Schmidt.

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