Sustainable energy and access to energy
Date
Time (GMT +01)
13:00 15:30
Hero image description: Mongolian family uses solar energy to power home
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Chair:
Andrew Scott - Research Fellow, Overseas Development Institute
Andrew Scott - Research Fellow, Overseas Development Institute
Speakers:
Carsten Hellpap - Program Director Energising Development, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Pascoe Sabido - Sustainable Energy Advisor, Friends of the Earth Europe
Bill Gunyon - Editor, One World Guides
Description
With debates and expectations for Sustainable energy for all (SEE4All), the United Nations Conference on Sustinable Development
and the developing post-2015 agenda all running in parallel but
overlapping, and all coming to a head or at least a milestone at Rio
+20.
This roundtable provided an opportunity, under Chatham House rules, to share information and interpretations of the outcomes from Rio+20 with policy workers and practitioners, as well as to identify where there may continue to be gaps and challenges to achieving critical energy objectives.
This roundtable provided an opportunity, under Chatham House rules, to share information and interpretations of the outcomes from Rio+20 with policy workers and practitioners, as well as to identify where there may continue to be gaps and challenges to achieving critical energy objectives.
Discussion considered a number of key issues, questions and debates on energy particularly in the context of post Rio+20, including:
- In what direction is the global community moving in terms of energy featuring in post 2015 sustainability goals?
- Is the global community, now, more or less likely to achieve sustainable energy for all?
- What difference will the Rio document make to national and international policies in the aim of achieving sustainable energy for all?
- What challenges are confronting the global community as it moves towards fulfilling existing commitments and aims, and what needs to be accomplished to overcome these challenges?
- Finally, what is the role of civil society in overcoming exiting challenges, achieving stated aims, and directing future energy debates?