05/02/2009 (Agence Europe) - Dorette Corbey (PES, NL), David Hammerstein (Greens/EFA, Spain), Sirpa Pietkäinen (EPP-ED, Finland), Vittorio Prodi (ALDE, Italy) and Graham Watson (ALDE, UK) have jointly signed a manual entitled “making the green energy switch at a time of crisis”, which calls for investment in new forms of energy and in technological innovation in order to reduce dependence on traditional fossil fuels. The exercise aims to show that the challenge of climate change - the greatest challenge that, according to Mr Watson in his introduction, political decision-makers have to face in times of peace - is of a kind that transcends political leaning. It aims also to mobilise very diverse forms of energies and experience. (Information: ISBN978-0-9545745-9-8). (M.B./transl.jl)