Posted on: October 21, 2010
Written by: ninulya
Categories: Climate Change, Energy Efficiency, Energy Poverty, Environment, Policy, Poverty, Stats, Studies, Valuing Biomass
Tagged: deforestation, Millennium Development Goals, REDD, UNEP
What exactly is the cost to society when one million hectares (8,861 sq. miles, an area roughly the size of Costa Rica) of Brazilian rainforest disappears? The United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) just released Mainstreaming the Economics of Nature, a report that aims to precisely answer that question. The report highlights government and business development policies that consistently fails to value the true cost of natural resources depletion. The report makes an excellent case for biodiversity loss valuation in all governmental decision-making processes. The report also highlights the strong link that exists between ecological conservation and a society’s ability to … Continue reading →
Posted on: October 6, 2010
Written by: Jean Kim Chaix
Categories: Africa, Charcoal, Climate Change, Cost of biofuel, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Human development, Policy, Poverty, Stats, The Charcoal Project, Uncategorized, Valuing Biomass, Virunga
Tagged: alternative energy
Sub-Saharan Africa today produces about the same amount of greenhouse gases from charcoal production and consumption as all of Europe’s transport combined.
If nothing changes, emissions are likely to triple by 2030.
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The chief economist for the International Energy Agency says the international community must mobilize to target the 1.4 billion people worldwide without electricity, and to meet the UN Millennium Development Goals.
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One of the most curious facts about energy is that economies use more of it even as they use it more efficiently. This strikes us as strange because many of us have heard that making cars, buildings, and factories more energy efficient is the key to cheaply and quickly reducing energy consumption, and thus pollution.
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The IEA said in an excerpt of its 2010 World Energy Outlook that some 1.2 billion people, equivalent to China’s population, would still have no electricity by 2030 if governments made no change to existing policies, down from 1.4 billion currently. The $36 billion per year only represented 3 percent of global energy investments projected by the agency to 2030.
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