Green energy to light a World Heritage site Virunga National Park’s first hydropower plant has started to generate electricity:
1. Most residents in the area currently rely on dirty and 2030. News Archives 2-3 billion people excluded from modern energy services, to a basic minimum threshold of modern energy services for both consumption and productive uses.Access to these modern energy services must be reliable and affordable, sustainable and, where feasible, from low-GHG-emitting energy sources. The aim of providing universal access should be to create improved conditions for economic take-off, contribute to attaining the MDGs, and enable the poorest of the poor to escape poverty. All countries have a role to play: Photo Gallery; the middle-income countries can contribute by sharing relevant expertise, experience and replicable good practices; and the low-income countries can help create the right local institutional, regulatory and policy environment for investments to be made, including by the private sector.
2. Reduce global energy intensity by 40 في المائة بحلول 2030. Developed and developing countries alike need to build and strengthen their capacity to implement effective policies, market based mechanisms, business models, investment tools and regulations with regard to energy use. Achieving this goal will require the international community to harmonize technical standards for key energy-consuming products and equipment, Photo Gallery, and to catalyze increased private capital flows into investments in energy efficiency.
The successful adoption of these measures would reduce global energy intensity by about 2.5 per cent per year – approximately double the historic rate. Delivering these two goals is key to achieving the Millennium Development Goals, improving the quality and sustainability of macroeconomic growth, and helping to reduce carbon emissions over the next 20 سنوات.
UNESCO School in South East Europe represents a unique educational opportunity to enhance capacity-building in sustainable energy by conveying in a single venue a substantial capital of knowledge | PDF
