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Feb. 2007 . e-PARLIAMENT HEARING ON CLIMATE AND ENERGY The e-Parliament conducted a very successful hearing on renewable energy and energy access in mid-November in Kenya following COP 13 of the Climate Convention. The hearing was attended by nineteen national and regional legislators from 13 African and European countries as well as eleven leading experts on energy policy. The participants discussed how to face the climate challenge while ensuring that everyone has access to energy and focused on what action could be taken now in parliaments to meet this challenge. A number of useful policy ideas were presented and discussed in detail, ranging from the new Ghanaian energy efficiency label for electrical appliances, and steps to improve cooking stoves in Kenya, to Germany’s renewable energy law and Mauritius’ feed-in tariffs to encourage electricity production from sugar cane waste.