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Energy for All: Addressing the Energy, Environment, and Poverty Nexus in Asia

Books, Periodicals, Studies, and Reports Publication Date: April 2007 In stock

This study focuses on access to energy for all while keeping in view the energy, environment and poverty linkages. Issues covered include the current world and Asian energy situation, availability and utilization of resources, prospects for meeting future demand, as well as price and affordability issues. Asian countries need to urgently find ways of addressing these issues if they are to join the ranks of more developed and prosperous countries.

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Contents

Executive Summary [ PDF: 218kb | 33 pages ]

Contents, Figures, Abbreviations And Acronyms, Foreword, Overview, Introduction [ PDF: 1,351kb | 22 pages ]

Part I: Meeting Demand and Fueling Growth [ PDF: 243kb | 31 pages ]

1. World Energy Trends

Energy Consumption, Production, and Growth

Energy Demand Projections

Economic and Consumer Growth

Energy Use and Intensity

Resource Availability and Pricing

Energy Transfers, Investments, and Technologies

Energy Trade

Financial Requirements

Technological Developments

2. The Asian Situation

Primary Energy Mix and Regional Markets
Energy Consumption, Access, and Costs

Part II: Energy, The Common Denominator [ PDF: 225kb | 36 pages ]

3. Energy and Development

Driver for Economic and Human Growth

Powering Development

Intensity of Use

The Asian Deficit

Sustainability of Energy Use

Quantifying Needs

Providing Supplies

4. Energy, Poverty and the Environment.

The Micro View: The Poverty Nexus

Income Poverty
Energy Poverty
Inferior Supplies
Rural Demand
Environmental Linkages
Affordability and Use
Raising Consumption

The Macro View: Global Impacts

Energy Prices
Climate Change
Management Issues
Market Bias

5. Energy Services and the Millennium Development Goals

Growth and Income Poverty Reduction (Target 1)
Hunger (Target 2)
Education (Target 3)
Gender Equality (Target 4)
Health (Targets 5-8)
Environmental Sustainability (Target 9)
Water Supply and Sanitation (Target 10)

Part III: Prospects for Sustainable Development [ PDF: 140kb | 26 pages ]

6. Alternative Strategies

A Need for Change

Baseline Facts
Responding to the Challenge

Targeting the Poor

The Demographics of Poverty
Revisiting the MDGs

Enhancing Supplies, Paring Demand

Optimizing Resource Utilization
Expanding Renewable and Alternative Energy Supply
Improving Service Delivery
Increasing Efficiency of Use
Redirecting Interventions
Pricing Energy
Reforming and Restructuring Markets
Financing Supply and Access
Building Capacities

7. Sustainable Energy for All

A Global Partnership
The Technology Wildcard
Lessons for Developing Asia

References [ PDF: 32kb | 4 pages ]