World Energy Assessment: Energy and the Challenge of Sustainability

Goldemberg, José

2000

92-1-126126-0

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UNDP’s flagship energy publication, this publication provides the best current thinking on the social, economic, environmental and security issues linked to energy, and the compatibility of different energy options. It analyses how energy can serve as an instrument to reach the goal of sustainable human development, which has been committed by the United Nations and its Member States. It describes the fundamental relationship between energy and sustainable human development and shows how different approaches to energy relates to other issues in the world, such as economic growth, poverty alleviation, the situation of women, security and a wide range of environmental issues from indoor air pollution to urban air pollution, from acidification to climate change. It concludes that the adoption of new policies that encourage the delivery of energy services in cleaner and more efficient ways is a prerequisite to address current development problems. The World Energy Assessment showed that by acting now to embrace these policies, a more equitable, economically prosperous, and environmentally sound world is within our reach. [www.energyandenvironment.undp.org]

Energía; Estrategias energéticas; Nivel mundial;