Expanding energy access to fight extreme poverty
The recent 2012 Ashden Conference on Sustainable Solution for Better Lives had a focus on energy solutions for better lives and was Chaired by Richenda Van Leeuwen Executive Director of Energy and Climate at the United Nations Foundation. Ms Van Leeuwen is an international energy expert with over 20 years of experience and has a particular focus on energy access for poverty alleviation. I sat down with her to talk about the importance of energy access and the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All.
In the second of two short videos Richenda discusses what the private sector, governments and civil society can do in 2012 to tackle energy poverty.
You can find out more about energy poverty and the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All here and you can learn about the Ashden Award winners here.
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09/08/2012 at 2:14 pm
The mòst energy is put in the symptoms and consequences of our global selfcorrupting monetary system! The instigators of this global crisis, like the big multi-nationals and big leading banks, will continue with their practices. The exsistence of hùnger and poverty are inherent to this system and as long as we don’t recognize this phenomenon, all the efforts are like a drop of water on a hot plate or like carrying water to the sea. Every first-world-individual doesn’t wànt to turn its back to the welfare and comfort of the luxery. The rich and powerfull want to get bigger and richer over the backs of the less fortunates. That’s the nature of the beast .