That is the stark warning from Giles Dickson, chief executive of WindEurope for exactly one year and a man with plenty on his mind as he gears up for the industry body's flagship Summit in Hamburg next week.

The WindEurope Summit will for the first time be co-located with WindEnergy Hamburg, the world's biggest wind industry expo, in a union that creates an impressive critical mass of European commercial clout, technological excellence and policy thought-leadership.

Dickson,