U.S. Clean Energy Initiative: Powering Sustainable Development from Village to Metropolis

摘要

Access to affordable, reliable, clean, and efficient energy services is essential to breaking the cycle of poverty and achieving sustainable development. At the World Summit on Sustainable Development, the U.S.Government announced a new Signature Partnership for sustainable development--the Clean Energy Initiative: Powering Sustainable Development from Village to Metropolis. The 'Powering Sustainable Development' Initiative provides a foundation to meet President Bush's commitment to alleviate poverty, support education and health care, provide safe drinking water, reverse the loss of environmental resources and support the availability of new technologies by revolutionizing the delivery of energy services to the world's rural and urban poor. The Initiative seeks to provide millions of people with new access to energy services; increase the efficiency of energy, production, delivery and use; and significantly reduce readily preventable deaths and respiratory illnesses associated with motor vehicle and indoor air pollution.