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International Renewable Energy – a solution to many world problems

Renewable energy can tackle poverty — UN Official highlights group’s role in promoting alternative sources at assembly meeting held in Abu Dhabi Gulf News, By Binsal Abdul Kader,   January 15, 2012 Abu Dhabi: The United Nations has taken a new initiative to promote renewable energy, considering its potential to alleviate poverty across the world, according to a top UN official. The UN declared 2012 the ‘International Year of Sustainable Energy for All, and Ban Ki-moon, the secretary general, has also taken an initiative in the same direction, said Sha Zukang, under-secretary general of the UN.

He was addressing the first day of the second Assembly of International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena) in Abu Dhabi yesterday. About 137 countries, the European Union and 57 organisations are attending the two-day assembly which is to end today. Zukang was referring to the fact that access to energy can alleviate poverty as it improves living standards of impoverished masses.
Zukang said the world was facing an interlinked crisis involving economic, social and environmental issues. He emphasised the role of Irena to promote renewable energy across the world and to address several problems. Zukang said one solution should solve multiple problems…..
There are encouraging signs of the increasing utilisation of renewable
energy everywhere, said Adnan Z Ameen, director general of Irena in
his speech.
In 2010 renewable energy supplied about 16 per cent of global energy
consumption, and delivered close to 20 per cent of global electricity
production, he said.
Including all hydro power, Ameen said, renewable energy accounted for
about 50 per cent of total added power generating capacity in
2010….. http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/environment/renewable-energy-can-tackle-poverty-un-1.965779

January 16, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized