Towards a Sustainable Energy Future : The World Bank Group's Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Action Plan

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dc.creatorWorld Bank
dc.date2013-08-07T21:31:24Z
dc.date2013-08-07T21:31:24Z
dc.date2004-06-30
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-01T01:27:34Z
dc.descriptionThe challenge for the development community is to exploit the links between energy and poverty to combat global poverty. The human scale of this challenge is huge. Today, 1.6 billion people lack access to electricity and 2.4 billion rely on traditional biomass for cooking and heating. Indoor air pollution is among leading causes of illness and death in developing countries. It leads to 2 million premature deaths a year. In 2004, the richest 20 percent of the world s population consume 58 percent of total energy, while the poorest 20 percent consume less than 4 percent. The majority of those underserved are the poor in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. With increasing populations, 25 years from now, business-as-usual energy scenarios project that even after an expenditure of 16 trillion US dollars on energy investments of which half will be in developing countries, 1.4 billion people will still lack access to electricity. This is a reduction of only 200 million people from today. Over 2.6 billion people in developing countries will continue to rely on traditional forms of biomass for cooking and heating in 2030, even more than today. This scenario expects renewable energy share to increase from 2 percent to 3 percent between 2000 and 2030. Under this scenario, by 2030, the more than doubling of coal, oil and gas consumption will lead to increases in greenhouse gas emissions from the energy sector. The impacts will affect the developing countries the most, and hence rendering the poor more vulnerable. Projected impacts are increased deaths and risk of infectious disease epidemics; increased floods, mudslides and coastal and soil erosion; increased property and infrastructure damage; decreased crops, higher crop damages and a general drop in agricultural productivity.
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dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/06/16349535/towards-sustainable-energy-future-world-bank-groups-renewable-energy-energy-efficiency-action-plan
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/14894
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.1596/14894
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/418275
dc.languageEnglish
dc.languageen_US
dc.publisherWashington, DC
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.rightsWorld Bank
dc.subjectACCESS TO ELECTRICITY
dc.subjectAFFORDABLE ENERGY
dc.subjectAIR
dc.subjectAIR POLLUTION
dc.subjectAVAILABILITY
dc.subjectBALANCE
dc.subjectBALANCE OF PAYMENTS
dc.subjectBIOMASS ENERGY
dc.subjectBIOMASS FUELS
dc.subjectCAPACITY BUILDING
dc.subjectCARBON
dc.subjectCARBON EMISSIONS
dc.subjectCARBON FINANCE
dc.subjectCARBON FINANCING
dc.subjectCLEAN ENERGY
dc.subjectCLEAN WATER
dc.subjectCLEANER ENERGY
dc.subjectCLIMATE
dc.subjectCLIMATE CHANGE
dc.subjectCLIMATE CHANGE CONVENTION
dc.subjectCO
dc.subjectCOAL
dc.subjectCOGENERATION
dc.subjectCONVENTIONAL ENERGY
dc.subjectCOOKING
dc.subjectCROPS
dc.subjectECONOMIC GROWTH
dc.subjectELECTRICAL POWER
dc.subjectELECTRICAL POWER GENERATION
dc.subjectELECTRIFICATION
dc.subjectEMISSIONS REDUCTION
dc.subjectEMISSIONS REDUCTIONS
dc.subjectEMPLOYMENT
dc.subjectENERGY CHOICES
dc.subjectENERGY EFFICIENCY
dc.subjectENERGY EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENTS
dc.subjectENERGY EFFICIENCY INVESTMENTS
dc.subjectENERGY EFFICIENCY MEASURES
dc.subjectENERGY EFFICIENCY PROJECTS
dc.subjectENERGY INVESTMENTS
dc.subjectENERGY NEEDS
dc.subjectENERGY SCENARIOS
dc.subjectENERGY SECTOR
dc.subjectENERGY SECURITY
dc.subjectENERGY SERVICES
dc.subjectENERGY SOURCES
dc.subjectENERGY SUPPLY
dc.subjectENERGY USE
dc.subjectENVIRONMENT SECTORS
dc.subjectENVIRONMENTAL GOALS
dc.subjectENVIRONMENTAL IMPROVEMENT
dc.subjectFLOODS
dc.subjectFOSSIL
dc.subjectFOSSIL FUELS
dc.subjectGAS
dc.subjectGAS CONSUMPTION
dc.subjectGEF
dc.subjectGENERATION CAPACITY
dc.subjectGEOTHERMAL ENERGY
dc.subjectGEOTHERMAL PROJECT
dc.subjectGEOTHERMAL PROJECTS
dc.subjectGLOBAL ENVIRONMENT
dc.subjectGLOBAL ENVIRONMENT FACILITY
dc.subjectGREENHOUSE
dc.subjectGREENHOUSE GAS
dc.subjectGREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS
dc.subjectHEAT
dc.subjectHEATING
dc.subjectHOT WATER
dc.subjectHYDROPOWER
dc.subjectINDOOR AIR POLLUTION
dc.subjectINTERNATIONAL ENERGY AGENCY
dc.subjectLOCAL ENVIRONMENT
dc.subjectLOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPROVEMENT
dc.subjectOIL
dc.subjectPIPELINE
dc.subjectPRICE VOLATILITY
dc.subjectRENEWABLE ENERGIES
dc.subjectRENEWABLE ENERGY
dc.subjectRENEWABLE ENERGY CONFERENCE
dc.subjectRENEWABLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT
dc.subjectRENEWABLE ENERGY GENERATION
dc.subjectRENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECTS
dc.subjectRENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES
dc.subjectRENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES
dc.subjectRENEWABLES
dc.subjectSOLAR ENERGY
dc.subjectSUGAR MILLS
dc.subjectSUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
dc.subjectSUSTAINABLE ENERGY
dc.subjectSUSTAINABLE ENERGY FUTURE
dc.subjectSUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT
dc.subjectTRADITIONAL BIOMASS
dc.subjectWIND
dc.subjectWIND ENERGY
dc.subjectWORLD ENERGY
dc.titleTowards a Sustainable Energy Future : The World Bank Group's Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Action Plan

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