Sustainable energy for the world's poor
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Sustainable energy for the world's poor
The World Summit on Sustainable Development offered a potential double win: reducing poverty without choking the planet. But to achieve this there needs to be a global action plan to provide clean, sustainable energy to the world’s poor.
Working with Greenpeace, ITDGPractical Action has produced an action plan, Sustainable Energy for Poverty Reduction, which reviews international actions taking place to provide sustainable energy services to the world's poor, and outlines the steps necessary to achieve the win-win goal of poverty reduction and action on climate change.
Action Plan Summary | Launch Report
Earth Summit energy agreement a sham 3rd September 2002
70,000 reasons why the Summit failed: the WSSD agreement on access to energy, targets and subsidies is a sham offering little hope of getting clean energy to almost a third of humanity.
Events
- Power to the People: ITDGPractical Action forum for action on energy and poverty reduction, 2nd September
- Choose Positive Energy: unveiling of 1.6 million petition and launch of ITDGPractical Action-Greenpeace Action Plan, 30th August, 09:30 GMT
- Live webcast: micro-hydro in Peru, 30th August 11:00 GMT
(12noon BST, 13:00 Johannesburg)
ITDGPractical Action's principal focus at WSSD was on energy, and in particular our position on the access to modern, clean energy for the two billion people in the developing world currently without it. We promoted our own position set out in the paper Power to the People: sustainable energy for the world's poor, and supported the Choose Positive Energy campaign led by Greenpeace.
- Power to the People: sustainable energy for the world's poor
read as HTML or download printable PDF
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Power to the People forum
Power to the People: sustainable energy for the world's poor
An ITDGPractical Action forum for action on energy and poverty reduction, Hall 5, Room 11, Johannesburg Expo Centre (Nasrec), 2nd September, 10am-12noon
This civil society forum presented key visions from government, the private sector, environment and development NGOs and highlight the part that sustainable energy can play in meeting the needs of the two billion people across the globe who currently lack access to modern energy services. It also illustrated how poor people's access to basic, clean energy could help meet the UN millennium development goal to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger by 2015. Full details
Choose Positive Energy
ITDGPractical Action is working with Greenpeace on practical answers to tackling poverty without costing the Earth. Together we have produced an action plan, Sustainable Energy for Poverty Reduction, which reviews international actions taking place to provide sustainable energy services to the world's poor, and outlines the steps necessary to achieve the win-win goal of poverty reduction and action on climate change.
This action plan was launched at the World Summit on 30 August at an event hosted by the singer Baaba Maal.
Download ITDGPractical Action and Greenpeace's joint Action Plan, Sustainable Energy for Poverty Reduction NB: large file 933K or read a summary
Live webcast 30 August: Micro-hydro in Peru
Teo Sanchez of ITDGPractical Action Latin America talked about the use and impact of micro-hydro projects in Peru, live via Virtual Exhibit's Sandton Cube in Johannesburg. Now archived on the Virtual Exhibit website
ITDGPractical Action's micro-hydro projects
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Power to the People: ITDGPractical Action's first seminar on sustainable energy and poverty reduction
"Asian brown cloud" demonstrates the need for action
ITDGPractical Action's Sustaining Life and Livelihoods campaign
ITDGPractical Action pages on Energy for the Poor
Choose Positive Energy campaign
Smoke: the Killer in the Kitchen
In its report, Smoke: the Killer in the Kitchen, ITDGPractical Action is calling for global action to save the lives of 1.6 million men, women and children lost each year to lethal levels of household smoke.