Verdens største multilaterale bistandsdonor vil sikre elektricitet til mange flere, renere energi, vedvarende energi og større effektivitet i udnyttelsen af energikilder samt vel at mærke fordoble sin bistand på feltet.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, 22. June, 2012: The World Bank Group has announced that it will boost efforts to expand energy access, while also increasing support for renewable (vedvarende) energy and energy efficiency in developing countries, responding to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s Sustainable Energy for All initiative.
The World Bank Group provides about 8 billion US dollar a year in financing for energy projects and programs, which leverages a comparable amount from donors, governments and the private sector.
Through the initiatives (outlined below), and as part of its effort to support the Sustainable Energy for All initiative, the Bank Group seeks to double leveraging of its energy lending, emphasizing low-carbon energy, to 16 billion dollar a year.
The Bank Group, which supports energy access initiatives in 60 countries around the globe, plans to scale up initiatives to provide electricity, clean household fuels and improved cookstoves in selected countries, while also seeking increased financing to implement them, said Mahmoud Mohieldin, World Bank Managing Director.
“Providing access to electricity to the world’s 1,3 billion people who are without it, and clean household fuels to the 2,7 billion without them, is a priority for the World Bank Group,” Mohieldin said, adding:
“At the same time, we will promote energy efficiency practices and facilitate efforts by countries to shift to cleaner energy sources.”
Specifically, the Bank Group pledged to:
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http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/2012/06/21/world-bank-boost-access-electricity-clean-fuels-renewable-energy-efficiency
Se også om stort el-projekt i Etiopien på
http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/2012/05/29/electricity-program-expands-access-energy-for-ethiopians-with-support-from-world-bank
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