Det kan nok være, at der er kommet gang i den alternative – og billige – energi i et af Danmarks store samarbejdslande indenfor udviklingsbistanden
The number of households in electricity-starved Bangladesh using solar panels has crossed the one million mark – the fastest expansion of solar use in the world, officials said Wednesday.
In 2002, just 7.000 households were using solar panels but now more than a million households – or some five million people – gather solar energy, said Nazmul Haq of the Infrastructure Development Company (IDCOL).
Meanwhile, in related news administrators tasked with running the UN’s talks on climate change have put out the begging bowl to help implement deals that in theory could reach a hundred billion dollars a year.
The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is asking its 194 parties to boost its roughly 25-million-dollar annual budget by about 15 percent for 2012 and 2013.
Kilde: www.worldbank.org
