(Mr. McCain's campaign did not respond to requests for comment on those criticisms on Tuesday, but he has generally favored market approaches to foster energy alternatives).
Gathered in Florida for its annual winter meeting, the executive committee of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. said it supported a comprehensive energy policy that fostered energy security, created jobs and addressed the threat of climate change.
The American commerce secretary, Gary Locke, said that the Obama administration also wanted to foster energy security by looking for ways to produce more clean energy in the United States, and was not just focusing on environmental issues.
One way to foster energy efficiency is by supporting adoption of decentralised combined heat and power (CHP) units.
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Research: $2 billion for energy efficiency and renewable energy research, development, demonstration, and deployment activities to foster energy independence, reduce carbon emissions, and cut utility bills.
The transport sector involves high consumption of fossil fuels being a cornerstone sector to foster energy reduction.
In spite of the large potential and existing efforts to foster energy efficiency in the residential sector, much remains to be achieved.
Among the diverse economic instruments to foster energy efficiency (EE) and climate protection, tradable certificates have been investigated for renewable energy, and the EU directive on an emissions-trading scheme for CO2 certificates has been approved in 2003.
The overall aim of project IntegrCiTy is to foster energy networks interoperability either in existing or future urban infrastructures, thus overcoming the afore mentioned "silo-like" approach and by developing a dedicated decision-support tool that will be applied and tested/validated in three Swiss and Swedish cities (Geneva, Vevey and Stockholm).
