-
Welcome to our blog, Nature warnings
and this post, Just another meeting
-
JUST ANOTHER MEETING
-
-
Just another meeting
Dear readers, this is again about global
warming, I believe that we all would like to have our say. Anyhow what I would
like to say here is that, it seems to me that the world leaders have many
meeting and will continue to meet in the hope that one day they will be able to
do something about it. So, I am looking forward to see what this next meeting that
I am reporting here under could achieve, I hope that they can do something better
that other meeting that have happened in the past. Anyhow this is the report
and I quote:
The December’s UN climate change Summit (COP 21), is around the corner.
On 7-8 December 2015, 196 countries will gather to decide whether or not to
commit to a low carbon future in a legally binding way.
It is not a chance that climate negotiations are taking place just a few months after other important negotiations on the post-2015 sustainable development agenda. Without addressing climate change, extreme poverty cannot be eradicated and sustainable development cannot be delivered.
In the energy access space, the development leaders at COP 21 will advocate for further investments to be unlocked to support the development of a low-carbon economy. However, as of today, such investments only target large government-led infrastructure projects.
While this is absolutely needed, in practice it only marginally helps the expansion of energy access in off-grid areas, where most of the world’s poor live (620 million people in sub-Saharan Africa only). Achieving universal access to electricity requires a combination of grid-based and off-grid solutions.
In fact, nearly 60% of the additional generation required to achieve universal electricity access needs to come from off-grid solutions – both stand-alone and mini-grids. This is the domain of small and medium-sized enterprises that use distributed energy technologies. And these are the businesses that GVEP supports.
Like the businesses that we work with, our voice in international debates and meetings, such as the Paris one, can seem rather small. Yet on the ground our impact is tangible: 11.7 million people are enjoying improved access to clean energy due to the growth of these businesses.
It is not a chance that climate negotiations are taking place just a few months after other important negotiations on the post-2015 sustainable development agenda. Without addressing climate change, extreme poverty cannot be eradicated and sustainable development cannot be delivered.
In the energy access space, the development leaders at COP 21 will advocate for further investments to be unlocked to support the development of a low-carbon economy. However, as of today, such investments only target large government-led infrastructure projects.
While this is absolutely needed, in practice it only marginally helps the expansion of energy access in off-grid areas, where most of the world’s poor live (620 million people in sub-Saharan Africa only). Achieving universal access to electricity requires a combination of grid-based and off-grid solutions.
In fact, nearly 60% of the additional generation required to achieve universal electricity access needs to come from off-grid solutions – both stand-alone and mini-grids. This is the domain of small and medium-sized enterprises that use distributed energy technologies. And these are the businesses that GVEP supports.
Like the businesses that we work with, our voice in international debates and meetings, such as the Paris one, can seem rather small. Yet on the ground our impact is tangible: 11.7 million people are enjoying improved access to clean energy due to the growth of these businesses.
With a market-based approach they are delivering energy to unserved and
poor communities and collectively they are contributing to the development of a
low-carbon economy.
End of report.
Looking at the report, it seems obvious that
we all together need to do something positive, in order to improve the climatic
situation, so let us keep our finger crossed and hope for a good solution.
This is all for this post, see you in our
next post, which will be again about something to do with the climate change
that continues to go on.
--------------------------------
NATURE WARMING
Just another meeting
IS TO BE CONTINUED;
Next time with another article about global warming. IS TO BE CONTINUED;
------------------------------
Some personal and religious links:
