AGENDA: 2010 World Energy Justice Conference: Emerging Solutions for the Energy Poor: Technological, Entrepreneurial and Institutional Challenges

This conference is a sequel to the 2009 World Energy Justice Conference (WEJC 2009) which began examining ways of mainstreaming safe, clean, and efficient energy for the world\u27s Energy Poor (EP). The EP number two and a half billion people living on less than $1-2 a day who have no access to modern energy services. WEJC 2010 more fully develops these themes. WEJC 2010 will explore how the next round of global warming meetings in Cancun could design new flexibility mechanisms that give credits, for example, for the reduction of black carbon by the adoption of cookstoves, and embrace small scale projects by poor stakeholders. WEJC 2010 will traverse ways of generating more capital, and promoting manufacture of appropriate sustainable energy technologies (ASETs) by social entrepreneurs as well as large corporations. The conference will explore promising pathways for doing so

AGENDA: 2010 World Energy Justice Conference: Emerging Solutions for the Energy Poor: Technological, Entrepreneurial and Institutional Challenges

This conference is a sequel to the 2009 World Energy Justice Conference (WEJC 2009) which began examining ways of mainstreaming safe, clean, and efficient energy for the world\u27s Energy Poor (EP). The EP number two and a half billion people living on less than $1-2 a day who have no access to modern energy services. WEJC 2010 more fully develops these themes. WEJC 2010 will explore how the next round of global warming meetings in Cancun could design new flexibility mechanisms that give credits, for example, for the reduction of black carbon by the adoption of cookstoves, and embrace small scale projects by poor stakeholders. WEJC 2010 will traverse ways of generating more capital, and promoting manufacture of appropriate sustainable energy technologies (ASETs) by social entrepreneurs as well as large corporations. The conference will explore promising pathways for doing so

AGENDA: World Energy Justice Conference and Appropriate Technology Arcade

The 2009 CEES Energy Justice Conference took place at the University of Colorado Law School on October 23rd and 24th, 2009. It featured 11 sessions, more than 40 speakers, and attracted over 200 attendees. The Conference brought together leading international and U.S. decision-makers in politics, engineering, public health, law, business, economics, and innovators in the sciences to explore how best to address the critical needs of the energy-oppressed poor (EOP) through long-term interdisciplinary action, information sharing, and deployment of appropriate sustainable energy technologies (ASETs). The Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law & Policy (CJIELP) at the University of Colorado Law School produced a special feature volume on the issue of Energy Justice. The special issue on Energy Justice, v. 21 no. 2 (2010), is composed of articles from various presenters at the 2009 Energy Justice Conference. It also includes a transcript of Dr. Kandeh Yumkella’s keynote address, where Dr. Yumkella eloquently provides a context for the discussion of Energy Justice (see 21 Colo. J. Int\u27l Envtl. L. & Pol\u27y 277 (2010)). This volume helps frame the questions presented by Energy Justice through the different perspectives of authors

SLIDES: Meeting the Needs of Women Through Clean Cooking Solutions

Presenter: Corinne Hart, Program Manager, Gender and Markets, Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves 20 slide

SLIDES: NOKERO: Power to the Powerless

Presenter: Stephen Katsaros, Inventor, Founder, and CEO, Nokero 13 slide

SLIDES: UNIDO: Partner for Prosperity

Presenter: Dr. Kandeh Yumkella, Chairman, UN Energy; Director General, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) 16 slide

SLIDES: What Laundry Can Teach Us: Five Principles for New Business Models

Presenter: Teju Ravilochan, CEO, The Unreasonable Institute 17 slide

AGENDA: 2012 Energy Justice Conference and Technology Exposition

Co-sponsored with the Colorado European Union Center of Excellence and the Presidents Leadership Institute at the University of Colorado Boulder. The ability to harness energy is fundamental to economic and social development. Worldwide, almost 3 billion people have little or no access to beneficial energy resources for cooking, heating, water sanitation, illumination, transportation, or basic mechanical needs. Energy poverty exacerbates ill health and economic hardship, and reduces educational opportunities, particularly for women and children. Specifically, access to efficient and affordable energy services is a prerequisite for achieving the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) relating to poverty eradication. In response, the UN has declared 2012 the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All and announced a goal of universal energy access by 2030. It is worth emphasizing in this context that electricity is indisputably the ultimate, achievable goal when seeking access to energy. However, the daunting costs and time necessary to “leapfrog” from biomass and kerosene to electricity render it the final goal, but not necessarily the first step in accessing beneficial energy. Appropriate Sustainable Energy Technologies (ASETs), such as clean combustion technologies, simple filtration systems, and photovoltaic illumination, can provide interim access to beneficial, life-saving energy. Numerous programs of the EU and its member countries, who continue to be the largest aid donors in the world, have recognized the importance of energy as an integral part of poverty alleviation. The EU Energy Initiative for Poverty Eradication and Sustainable Development (EUEI) was launched at the 2002 World Summit for Sustainable Development in Johannesburg to give priority to the importance of energy in poverty alleviation. The EuropeAid – ACP-EU Energy Facility was established in 2005, within the EU Energy Initiative for Poverty Eradication and Sustainable Development (EUEI), as a co-financing instrument for increasing access to sustainable and affordable energy services for the poor living in rural and peri-urban areas in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. The US is expanding its aid related energy horizons, and access to modern energy services to power economic and social development is the cornerstone of USAID’s energy-related mission. The US supports the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, a new public-private partnership to save lives, improve livelihoods, empower women, and combat climate change by creating a thriving global market for clean and efficient household cooking solutions that can greatly reduce the harmful indoor air pollution caused by cooking over an open fire or with inefficient stoves. The Alliance’s ‘100 by ’20’ goal calls for 100 million homes to adopt clean and efficient stoves and fuels by 2020. It also supports the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air (PCIA) which was established in 2002. The 2012 Energy Justice Conference will evaluate the much-heralded UN conference on Sustainable Development: Rio+20, taking place in June 2012. It will focus on a number of defining and hitherto unexplored issues that will need to be canvassed pursuant to Rio+20, to promote the UN call of Sustainable Energy for All

SLIDES: The Green Climate Fund: Challenges and Opportunities: Some Thoughts on How the Green Climate Fund Could Close the Energy Justice Gap

Presenter: Martin Hiller, Director‐General, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP), Vienna, Austria 22 slide

AGENDA: 2012 Energy Justice Conference and Technology Exposition

Co-sponsored with the Colorado European Union Center of Excellence and the Presidents Leadership Institute at the University of Colorado Boulder. The ability to harness energy is fundamental to economic and social development. Worldwide, almost 3 billion people have little or no access to beneficial energy resources for cooking, heating, water sanitation, illumination, transportation, or basic mechanical needs. Energy poverty exacerbates ill health and economic hardship, and reduces educational opportunities, particularly for women and children. Specifically, access to efficient and affordable energy services is a prerequisite for achieving the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) relating to poverty eradication. In response, the UN has declared 2012 the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All and announced a goal of universal energy access by 2030. It is worth emphasizing in this context that electricity is indisputably the ultimate, achievable goal when seeking access to energy. However, the daunting costs and time necessary to “leapfrog” from biomass and kerosene to electricity render it the final goal, but not necessarily the first step in accessing beneficial energy. Appropriate Sustainable Energy Technologies (ASETs), such as clean combustion technologies, simple filtration systems, and photovoltaic illumination, can provide interim access to beneficial, life-saving energy. Numerous programs of the EU and its member countries, who continue to be the largest aid donors in the world, have recognized the importance of energy as an integral part of poverty alleviation. The EU Energy Initiative for Poverty Eradication and Sustainable Development (EUEI) was launched at the 2002 World Summit for Sustainable Development in Johannesburg to give priority to the importance of energy in poverty alleviation. The EuropeAid – ACP-EU Energy Facility was established in 2005, within the EU Energy Initiative for Poverty Eradication and Sustainable Development (EUEI), as a co-financing instrument for increasing access to sustainable and affordable energy services for the poor living in rural and peri-urban areas in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. The US is expanding its aid related energy horizons, and access to modern energy services to power economic and social development is the cornerstone of USAID’s energy-related mission. The US supports the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, a new public-private partnership to save lives, improve livelihoods, empower women, and combat climate change by creating a thriving global market for clean and efficient household cooking solutions that can greatly reduce the harmful indoor air pollution caused by cooking over an open fire or with inefficient stoves. The Alliance’s ‘100 by ’20’ goal calls for 100 million homes to adopt clean and efficient stoves and fuels by 2020. It also supports the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air (PCIA) which was established in 2002. The 2012 Energy Justice Conference will evaluate the much-heralded UN conference on Sustainable Development: Rio+20, taking place in June 2012. It will focus on a number of defining and hitherto unexplored issues that will need to be canvassed pursuant to Rio+20, to promote the UN call of Sustainable Energy for All