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UN pushes sustainable energy
On World Environmental Day, United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon underscored that sustainable energy is the golden thread that links poverty eradication, equitable economic growth and a healthy environment.
Speaking today (5 June)at the first annual Sustainable Energy for All forum, Ban pointed out three goals for 2030: “universal access to modern energy services. Double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency. Twice as much renewable energy in the global energy mix. Our efforts so far show that these objectives are realistic. Our focus now must be to achieve them.”
He said this can bring us closer to our goals of universal energy and a life of dignity and opportunity for all.
Ban said “along with its campaign on energy and women’s and children’s health, the Decade can bring us closer to our goals of universal energy and a life of dignity and opportunity for all. Modern energy services are the key to changing people’s quality of life.”
He noted how modern energy services are key to changing people’s quality of life, including how clinics can store life-saving vaccines and how children can study after dark.
Ban also said that he saw this forum as an annual meeting place for the global energy community. “Here we can assess progress, inspire each other and mobilize new partners. Here we can shape a new energy future. That future starts now.”
The Secretary-General said that at his climate summit in September, he counts on all to deliver new and expanded commitments and partnerships that will transform the global energy landscape.
Also today, the head of this energy initiative said that the energy demand will increase 60 percent or more in the next decade and a half.
He added “in some locations around the world, energy demand will double and to meet that energy demand and at the same time deal with greenhouse gas emissions is going to be a major challenge.”
Yumkella pointed out the issue of deforestation.
He said it’s “partly why the theme for the first two years of the decade for sustainable for all is focusing on energy, women and children’s health and part of that dimension is we have 4.3 million people dying every year because of household air pollution from the use of firewood, charcoal and cow dung; and we believe if we can bring clean cooking solutions we don’t only save lives, we also help to reduce deforestation.”
This year’s theme for World Environmental Days is “Raise your voice, not the sea level.”
UNEP (United Nations Environmental Programme) says that climate change-induced sea-level rise in the world’s 52 small island nations continues to be the most pressing threat to their environment and socio-economic development; with annual losses at the trillions of dollars due to increased vulnerability.
7 Comments on "UN pushes sustainable energy"
Kenz300 on Sat, 7th Jun 2014 5:53 pm
Climate change will impact all of us……………
Solar Industry Uniquely Poised to Help Fight Climate Change
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/blog/post/2014/05/solar-industry-uniquely-poised-to-help-fight-climate-change
Dave Thompson on Sat, 7th Jun 2014 6:26 pm
An ox cart with a plow attachment is sustainable if the land you live on is fertile.
Makati1 on Sat, 7th Jun 2014 10:31 pm
Off topic food for thought:
“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
“…The masses are being plundered on a scale which is inconceivable and unmatched in history; it is the source of the middle classes dying in the developed world. The developed world has become a well-disguised plantation of serfs and slaves. They are given nothing to store and save their labor in as the currency they hold are printed endlessly and have no reserves to back them and are redeemable in NOTHING, contrary to every sound currency in history. Modern day money is nothing less than a wealth confiscation scheme run by morally and fiscally bankrupt central banks and governments against their own citizens.
Is there any human activity where you are not taxed today in one way or another? Is there any major financial holding which people own free and clear of annual taxes or don’t have to share any gain with the masters in central governments? They are your partners in everything even though you performed the work to buy your assets. The government has given the working man nothing in exchange for sharing in the profits or appreciation. Government services such as roads, schools, sewers, police and courts are paid for out of taxes….”
Norm on Sun, 8th Jun 2014 4:51 am
HEY ALL YOU SMART GUYS ON PEAK OIL…
can one of you post this 5 min You Tube video?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK367T7h6ZY
U gotta post it for me cause I am the dumb guy. I am unqualified to post the article. But I bet one of you smart guys can do it.
It shows a person ‘Kirk Sorensen’ clearly solving the energy shortage, by advocating Thorium reactors. Everything he says is what I figured out on my own… by web surfing… but i did not ever come up with any 5 min video.
Although he clearly solves the energy crisis, no worry about anybody actually implementing it. We have a government and their job is to make sure that no problem will be solved, and our government does its job very well.
So no worries about any Thorium reactors being built, it aint gonna happen cause that would solve the energy shortage. As the video explains, we could be producing hydrocarbons on our own pulling CO2 from the atmosphere, if we had a good energy source such as Thorium reactors.
So how about somebody post that video for me, thanks.
chilphil1986 on Sun, 8th Jun 2014 8:00 am
Norm, I won’t be the one to call you dumb, but the level of investment those require means that governments will need to funding them. We’ve known about thorium for a long time. The difference between thorium and uranium fuel cycles aside from the energy they produce is the ease by which they can produce nukes. Thorium is great for the potential abundance of fuel, and I also like them for that reason and I also like how safe they are in comparison to uranium cycles.. But try getting a government to build up the infrastructure when they want to easily switch between producing energy and producing nukes. As long as we want to make war on the ‘Other’ over providing for the ‘Other’, uranium will always be the first choice.
synapsid on Sun, 8th Jun 2014 3:13 pm
chilphil,
China and India are both putting money and energy into trying to develop thorium reactors; India especially has a lot of thorium. I’d like to see the effort succeed just to start getting us away from uranium, but thorium reactors certainly are no panacea for problems with nuclear energy–just, maybe, less problematic.
One problem they don’t prevent is making bombs. The US tried making one back in the 1950s using U233 produced in the thorium decay series but the yield was low because of contaminating U232. We know how to produce U233 without U232 contamination now, so, um bombs away.
bob on Sun, 8th Jun 2014 3:46 pm
chilphil I am not sure money is anymore. China has spent trillions building bridges to nowhere and cities with no people in them and still people on here talk about Russia and China forming an alliance etc….there is so many obligations to money that it is not what we thought it was once…we have entered a new paradigm that may be above our pay grade….maybe they know something we don’t maybe this will all end tomorrow….what I do know is that money is not what it was 50 years ago…