Soluciones energéticas para las amortizaciones humanitarias y de desarrollo

El enfoque habitual del suministro de energía durante las crisis de refugiados tiende a caer en la dependencia de combustibles sucios, peligrosos y caros. Las soluciones energéticas sostenibles exigen un marco de planificación a largo plazo. Hay oportunidades de alinear la resiliencia energética y los objetivos de acceso de las naciones de acogida dentro del proceso para que las operaciones humanitarias y los objetivos sean ecológicos y para que los refugiados sean autosuficientes

Arctic Opening: Opportunity and Risk in the High North

The Report was presented by Lloyd, which is the world´s leading specialist insurance market, conducting business in over 200 countries and territories worldwide. The document brings together an outstanding concentration of specialist to talk about rapid and disruptive changes in the Arctic environment patterns. The Report treats about challenges and opportunities, those changes bring to international investments and economic development

Burning oil to keep cool: the hidden energy crisis in Saudi Arabia

Glada Lahn; Paul Steven

Escaping the Vicious Cycle of Poverty: Towards Universal Access to Energy. CEPS Working Document No. 363, 9 March 2012

Despite the continuous efforts of developing countries and the international community to reduce energy poverty, some 2.7 billion people around the world still rely on traditional biomass for cooking and heating and 1.3 billion people do not have access to electricity. Over 80% of the energy poor live in rural areas and roughly two thirds in sub-Saharan Africa and India. While fossil fuels will inevitably play a major role in expanding on-grid energy supply, this study shows that renewable energy sources – and especially small decentralised solutions – have huge potential for providing reliable, sustainable and affordable energy services for the poor, particularly in rural areas of developing countries. Many challenges remain, including financing, capacity-building, technology transfer and governance reforms. A careful assessment of the environmental impacts of renewable energy technologies, particularly those on water, is an important prerequisite for donor finance. With the right design, energy access projects can also bring a host of developmental co-benefits. It should be possible for international initiatives including the UN’s Year of Sustainable Energy for All and the EU’s partnership with Africa to build on the rich experience and lessons learned from pilot projects over the last two decades in order to optimise donor effectiveness in this area

Energy solutions with both humanitarian and development pay-offs

The normal approach to energy delivery during refugee crises tends to lock in reliance on dirty, dangerous and expensive fuels. Sustainable energy solutions require a long-term planning framework. There are opportunities to align the energy resilience and access goals of host nations with the greening of humanitarian operations and objectives for refugee self-reliance

Energy services for refugees and displaced people

The current literature on energy access highlights energy deprivation on a regional or country basis, but frequently neglects those outside of national energy agendas such as refugees and displaced people. To fill this gap and to help inform future analysis, this paper presents an end-use accounting model for energy consumption for cooking and lighting by displaced populations. We present initial estimates for the overall scale of energy poverty and three high-level scenarios for improving access to energy for cooking and lighting. Key findings suggest that as many as 7 million displaced people in camps have access to electricity for less than 4 h a day and that the widespread introduction of improved cookstoves and basic solar lanterns could save $303 million a year in fuel costs after an initial capital investment of$334 million. We conclude that there is a strong human, economic, and environmental case to be made for improving energy access for refugees and displaced people, and for recognising energy as a core concern within humanitarian relief efforts. Keywords: Energy poverty, Refugees, Sustainable developmen