Fossil Fuels and Renewable Energy Sources

The second working session of the conference was under the chairmanship of the French parliamentarian, René Radius, chairman of the committee on regional planning and local authorities of the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly. The authors of the two reports were: on conventional energy sources, Professor Sergio Vacca, director of the Institute for the Economics of Energy Sources, Università Bocconi, Milan; and on non-conventional energy sources, Professor René Buvet, of the Biochemical Energetics Laboratory, Université de Paris/Val-de-Marne and ‘chairman of the Council of Europe study group on biological energy conversion systems. The rapporteur was the British parliamentarian, Colin Phipps, member of the committee on science and technology of the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly.