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Powering Cities in the Global South: How Energy Access for All Benefits the Economy and the Environment
Michael Westphal; Lihuan Zhou; David Satterthwaite; Sarah Martin
发表日期2017-09
出版年2017
语种英语
结论
  • Energy is fundamental to economic productivity and livelihoods, and cities have a major role to play in how it is provided and consumed.

  • Cities in the global south face three fundamental energy challenges: the urgent need to increase access to clean, affordable, and reliable energy; how to meet increasing electricity demand while addressing inadequate supply and system inefficiencies; and the imperative to chart a new model of development that slows the growth of carbon emissions and is not fossil fuel-intensive.

  • Solutions exist that can both address the needs of the urban under-served and provide economic and environmental benefits to the whole city.

  • We highlight three solutions in which the city itself can play a key implementing role: accelerating the shift to cleaner cooking; scaling up distributed renewable energy within cities; and increasing energy efficiency of buildings and appliances.

  • These solutions require enabling institutions and governance, finance, and policy, as well as decisions by diverse actors in cities.

摘要

Millions of residents in some of the fastest growing cities in the world don’t have access to clean, reliable energy, and the challenge of reaching them is not getting easier. In 2012, only 58 percent of the urban population had access to electricity in low-income countries, and nearly 500 million urban residents worldwide used dirty and harmful cooking fuels like charcoal and wood.

By 2050, it is projected that the world’s urban population will grow by 2.4 billion from 2015, with the growth concentrated mostly in Africa and Asia, creating unprecedented urban energy access challenges, especially for under-served populations. What’s more, the old carbon-intensive model of development undertaken in the global north is no longer tenable, given a greater concern for the health impacts of air pollution and the need to mitigate energy insecurity and climate risks. The latest installment of WRI’s flagship World Resources Report, “Towards a More Equal City,” provides solutions that can improve the health of residents, the environment and the overall economies of cities. 

主题WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
标签Cities For All ; energy ; equity ; poverty ; sustainable cities ; urban development ; world resources report
区域Africa ; Latin America ; South Asia
URLhttps://www.wri.org/publication/towards-more-equal-city-powering-cities-global-south
来源智库World Resources Institute (United States)
资源类型智库出版物
条目标识符http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/28054
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Michael Westphal,Lihuan Zhou,David Satterthwaite,et al. Powering Cities in the Global South: How Energy Access for All Benefits the Economy and the Environment. 2017.
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