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Latest developments and publications
The Global Network on Energy for Sustainable Development (GNESD) is a UNEP
facilitated knowledge network of developing world Centers of Excellence and
network partners. The main objective of GNESD is to carry out policy
analysis on thematic energy issues which can facilitate in reaching the
Millennium Development Goals (MDG). The introductory flyer on GNESD briefly
outlines the thematic areas of its activities, the way GNESD works and the
future plans.
Expert meeting on Energy and the Annual
Assembly 2009 The objectives of the Expert meeting and Assembly are to:
Please see the agenda and
flyer for
details.
Please see the flyer for more details. Regional Workshops The workshop for North and Western Africa region was held on the 3rd - 5th of November in Dakar, Senegal. Workshop Programme GNESD regional workshop for Latin America and the Caribbean region was held on the 20th -22nd of October in Santiago, Chile. The LAC workshop was organized by regional centres FB/CENBIO/COPPE with ECLAC/CLUB DE MADRID/GNESD. Presentations The workshop on urban energy access theme for Asia region was held on the 4th and 5th of August in Jakarta. Indonesia. The workshop was attended by most countries in the region. The organizer of the workshop was Asian Institute of Technology (AIT). Presentations GNESD regional workshop on Energy Access has been held in Cape Town 25-27 May 2009 back to back with Capacity Enhancement and Mobilisation Action for Energy in Africa (CEMA) project workshop. Workshop Flyer Bioenergy and Rural Development GNESD has recently initiated a thematic study on “Bioenergy and Rural Development”. The study will specifically examine the potentials of all forms of bioenergy i.e. gas, liquid and solid in contributing to rural development and alleviating poverty. The first phase is an inception phase which will determine the issues that will be dealt in details for the full thematic phase. The study is expected to be complete by December 2009. The study has been undertaken by GNESD centres in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The study coordinator is CENBIO one of the GNESD centres in Brazil. Policy Papers GNESD commissioned policy papers to be undertaken by three of GNESD centres in Africa and Latin America. The papers will generally tackle the issue of energy access and its implication to climate change both in terms of mitigation and adaptation. Presentations on Annual Assembly 2008 The Global Network on Energy for Sustainable Development (GNESD) held its Annual Assembly of 2008 at the Sheraton Hotel in Poznan, Poland in the margins of the COP 14, under the heading of “energy and poverty – Improving access to clean and efficient services. Click below links to see presentations. Biofuels Energy Security for Developing Countries Urban and Peri urban Energy Access At the Assembly the New Summery for Policy Makers (SPM) called Clean Energy for the Urban Poor: an Urgent Issue was launched. Please see the publication here. All technical reports behind the SPM are now available from the publications section. COP 14 Side Event: Energy Access, Resilience and Capacity Building Monday December 8th 11:00-12:30, Room Aesculapian Snake, Poznan International Fair
GNESD will have a side event at the COP14 being
held in Poznan. GNESD will present the findings from the Urban and Peri-Urban
energy access theme. The side event is organized in partnership with Helio
International, Gold Standard and SSN, please see the
flyer here.
GNESD research work has been included in the
ID21 Research highlights. The newsletter has over 5,000 subscribers and is
produced by id21, at the Institute of Development Studies, University of
Sussex. For more information please see:
http://www.id21.org/rural/r6gnesd1g1.html and
http://www.id21.org/rural/r6gnesd1g2.html The network had its Annual Assembly at UNEP DTIE in Paris on 2 November 2007. The theme of the Assembly was ‘Energy and Poverty - Improving access to modern forms of energy’ Presentations from the Assembly will be available online after 2 November. A high level expert workshop on energy for sustainable development was held during the assembly in November 2007 in Paris. Papers were presented by international experts from Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America on issues like energy access, power sector reforms, energy and the MDGs, CDM potentials in developing countries, biofuels and energy security for developing countries. New activities GNESD has now initiated two new studies one on Urban Peri Energy Access, phase two after an initial inception phase and one on Energy Security and Energy Efficiency with focus on both macro and micro levels in developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. GNESD also intends to undertake policy papers on current and important issues on energy. For example a policy paper on biofuels development for developing countries will be undertaken within this year. Updates and preliminary findings on both studies will be available in article form in the upcoming GNESD News GNESD is currently preparing a CD rom with all studies from the Renewable Energy Technologies (RETs) theme and a newsletter on current developments which will be online shorty.
GNESD organised a Side Event at
the Commission for Sustainable Development 15 (CSD) Regional
workshops on "Renewable Energy and Poverty Alleviation A "Summary for Policy Makers (SPM)" based on the findings of the Renewable Energy Technology studies will be launched at CSD 15. The summary outlines some of the policies that are required to be put in place for using the full potential of RE for poverty alleviation in the developing countries. A paper on "Reaching the MDGs and beyond: Access to modern forms of energy as a pre requisite" will be launched at the CSD 15. The study analyzes five case studies from Bangladesh, Brazil, South Africa, Senegal and Kenya and shows the linkages between energy access with achieve the MDGs and sustaining them. GNESD's newsletter (May 2007) is now available.
Upcoming Regional Workshops focusing on Renewables and
Poverty Alleviation
Technical Reports from all Centres taking part in the Renewable Energy Technologies (RETs) theme are now available The RETs theme Working Group members have now finalized their initial assessment of RETs' contribution to satisfying the energy needs of the poor and the barriers for a further expansion. Nine reports from the participating Centres in Kenya, Lebanon, India, South Africa, Brazil, Thailand, China, Senegal and Argentina are now available under the publications section. A Comparison Report will be available shortly. Regional Workshops focusing on Electricity and Development Facilitated GNESD has together with UNEP, UNDP and the International Energy Agency (IEA) carried out three regional workshops focusing on the Electricity and Development issue. The key theme for all three workshops has been to address the dual challenge of ensuring electricity for national economic development and at the same time provide increased access to the poor parts of the population. The Workshops made significant progress on understanding the linkages between poverty, development and access to electricity. One of the main conclusions is that the provision of modern energy services is crucial to the overall social and economic development and these services provide a platform without which the Millennium Development Goals cannot be attained. Lack of access to electricity in itself stood out as the clearest indicator of energy poverty and, indeed, of poverty in general. A common workshop report on the outcomes of the Workshops is under preparation and will be available shortly. The following workshop Summary Reports are now available:
The Rio de Janeiro workshop, Brazil, 13-14 April 2005
First two phases of the Energy Access theme completed successfully The second phase of the Energy Access theme focused on the dissemination of the results and was completed in December 2004. One of the main outcomes of this phase is the special issue of the International Energy Initiative's ESD Journal shown above. The publication is available under the Publications section as PDF. In December 2004 the Energy Access Working Group embarked on the Policy Implementation phase coined at preparing detailed case studies demonstrating the effectiveness of the policy option/recommendations identified as part of the Energy Access policy research phase.
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more on the
"Energy Access" and RETs theme.
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