Sustainable Energy News - No. 35 - November 2001 - Theme: Poverty & Energy (INFORSE, 2001, 18 p.): Theme: Poverty & Energy: Views on Poverty: How to bring energy-sector assistance closer to...

Sustainable Energy News - No. 35 - November 2001 - Theme: Poverty & Energy (INFORSE, 2001, 18 p.)

Theme: Poverty & Energy

Views on Poverty

		(introduction...)
		Global Marshall Plan
		How to bring energy-sector assistance closer to...
		Getting Renewable Energy to Tackle Poverty
		Global Vision 2050, INFORSE
		Improved Cooking Stove - a Case in Nepal
		Progress has been less than hoped

How to bring energy-sector assistance closer to contributing to poverty reduction?

· Put ‘Energy Poverty’ on the national energy agendas!

· Overcome the limitation of the market-based approach by assisting:

· Equal access for the minimum standard energy services
· Capacity building by decentralised energy services
· Civil society participation

Read more about this NGO view on pages 8 - 9

Photo: From the front page of the Greenpeace Campaign Paper. "Power to Tackle Poverty"