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O/Planet 14.3 Eng Our Planet Volume 14 No 3 The magazine of the United Nations Environment Programme ENERGY Gerhard Schroeder Key to development Ted Turner The energy challenge Richard G. Lugar Plant power M. Kannappan New energy for development Margaret Beckett Delivering change Ma Kai Benign growth Leonard Good Brightening the future EDITORIAL Klaus Toepfer and Corrado Clini Our Planet www.ourplanet.com 21 Greening oil Philip Watts, Chairman of the Committee of Managing Directors of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies 23 Blue-sky thinking Takeo Fukui, President and CEO of the Honda Motor Co. Ltd an Capellen/UNEP/Topham 24 Books and products V 3 Editorial 14 Benign growth Klaus Toepfer, Executive Director of Ma Kai, Minister in Charge of the UNEP, and Corrado Clini, Director State Development and Reform General of the Italian Ministry of Commission, China Environment and former co-Chair of the G8 Task Force on Renewable Energy 14 Green energy Liu Shuying, Vice Chairperson of 4Key to development Jilin Provincial People’s Congress and Gerhard Schroeder, Chancellor of the National Project Director for Federal Republic of Germany Modernized Biomass Energy, China 6 The energy challenge 16 At a glance: Energy Shuangyan/UNEP/Topham Ted Turner, Chairman of the United Nations Foundation 18 Sustainable dreams Wa Chin-Chin Gutierrez, award- 7 Plant power winning actress and 25 New energy to assault poverty Richard G. Lugar, Chairman of the US conservationist: interview Youba Sokona, Head of Energy Senate Foreign Relations Committee Program, ENDA-TM, Senegal 8 Bioenergy: doing well 26 New energy entrepreneurs while doing right Francis Yamba, Director of the Timothy E. Wirth, President of the Centre for Energy, Environment United Nations Foundation; C. Boyden and Engineering, Zambia Gray, partner at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering; John D. Podesta, President 28 Time to get serious of the Center for American Progress Eileen Claussen, President of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change 10 New energy for development M. Kannappan, Minister of Non- UNEP/Topham 30 Breaking the ice Conventional Energy Sources, India Maria Maack, Environmental Manager 19 Brightening the future of Icelandic New Energy 12 People Leonard Good, CEO and Chairman of the Global 32 In my lifetime – 100 per cent 13 Delivering change Environment Facility renewable Margaret Beckett, Secretary of State Amaidhi Devaraj, student of Law at for the Environment, Food and the University of Bangalore, South Rural Affairs, United Kingdom India Our Planet, This issue of Our Planet has been made possible by the generosity of the United Nations Foundation/Better the magazine of the World Fund. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) PO Box 30552, Nairobi, Kenya The contents of this magazine do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of UNEP, the United Nations Foundation or the editors, Tel (254 20) 621 234; fax 623 927; nor are they an official record. 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From the desks of Some 3 billion people rely on dung, coal, charcoal and kerosene for cooking KLAUS TOEPFER and heating. Inefficient use of these United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director, UNEP fuels contributes to indoor and local air pollution, linked to up to 5 per cent of and CORRADO CLINI global disease. Director General of the Italian Ministry of Environment and former The Global Environment Facility is backing an assessment of the solar and co-Chair of the G8 Task Force on Renewable Energy wind potential of developing countries. And the Sustainable Energy Finance s delegates gather in Milan for the Conference of the Parties to the Initiative (SEFI), launched only a few the next round of climate change Barcelona Convention. These are ideas weeks ago at a UNEP Finance Initiative A negotiations, some may wonder that were born out of the World Summit meeting in Tokyo, Japan, will comple- why such an event is necessary when on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in ment attempts to overcome financial the Kyoto Protocol, the international Johannesburg last year and modelled on barriers to a rapid, widespread uptake of instrument for combating global warm- recommendations made earlier by the clean energy systems. ing, is not yet in force. G8 Renewable Energy Task Force. These are just some projects, part- Surely, they will say, we can achieve Among early success stories are the nerships and initiatives. Others are little of substance until 55 countries installation of solar power in Brazil, India underway in the United States, Japan representing 55 per cent of the and Sri Lanka through partnerships inc- and elsewhere. Clearly not all will be emissions of the industrialized world luding BP Solar and Shell Renewables. successful. Some may wither and die. have ratified it. REEEP may be the latest initiative of But many different kinds of flowers are Such doubters should step outside its kind, but it is by no means the first – needed to make a beautiful bouquet, and the cocoon of gloom and smell the or the last. Last year the Global Network so many are now blossoming that there flowers. on Energy for Sustainable Development is the real promise of a less carbon In Italy – which hosts this ninth – involving specialized centres in India, intensive future. session of the Conference of the Parties Argentina, Senegal, Kenya and other In Milan we must water this garden so (COP9) to the United Nations Framework countries – was launched at that the initiatives so actively backed by Convention on Climate Change – for Johannesburg. many countries, companies and example, energy producers have been UNEP and the UN Foundation – communities can be growing strongly obliged to deliver a fixed amount of re- whose sister body, the Better World when the Kyoto Protocol finally enters newable energy into the national grid Fund, has generously supported this into force ■ since 1999. A national plan for increasing issue of Our Planet – have been de- wind and biomass-based energy gener- veloping the Rural Energy Enterprise ation has been established: its fruits Development (REED) programme. It has include new 800 megawatt capacity for three spin-offs: AREED, in Africa; wind, and 10 megawatts from biomass in CREED, in China, and B-REED focused Maratta Bassa, Umbria. on the Bahia and Alagoas areas of north- New laws, economic incentives and east Brazil. Other supporters include the the fast tracking of projects – both na- Fund for International Partnerships, tionally inspired and as part of European E+Co, the Blue Moon Fund, The Nature Union initiatives – have helped improve Conservancy and UNEP’s collaborative the prospects for cleaner energy. Riso centre in Denmark. Power companies and banks are REED aims to establish networks of actively involved, proving yet again that clean energy entrepreneurs and YOUR VIEWS saving the planet is a profitable business businesses in developing countries. We would really like to receive your which generates jobs. AREED, for example, has invested in 15 feedback on the issues raised in this Next year Germany will host the clean energy enterprises, supporting edition of Our Planet. Please either International Conference on Renewable projects including the manufacturing e-mail [email protected] or Energies. Last October the United of efficient cooking stoves, solar write to: Kingdom launched its Renewable water-heating systems, wind-powered Feedback, Our Planet Energy and Energy Efficiency Partner- pumping and improved distribution of 27 Devonshire Road ship (REEEP) and in November Italy liquefied petroleum gas. Cambridge CB1 2BH launched the Mediterranean Renewable Access to energy is essential if the United Kingdom Energy Partnership on the occasion of United Nations Millennium Development 3 Our Planet KEY TO development GERHARD SCHROEDER says that sustainable energy supplies are essential to combat poverty, prevent crises and conflicts and safeguard natural resources round a third of the world’s population lacks adequate access to energy supplies. Improving this situation A provides one of the major challenges for future-oriented policy at the start of the 21st century. Germany is participating in efforts to facilitate sustainable energy supplies all over the world. We expressed this in particular at the Johannesburg World Summit in September 2002 by announcing concrete programmes, which sent out a strong signal to the international community.
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