Power to Transform: Sustainable Energy Strategies for the WSSD

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Power to Transform Sustainable Energy
Strategies for the WSSD

• Energy the WSSD
• David Green, Chief Executive
• UK Business Council for
• Sustainable Energy

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1992 RIO EARTH SUMMITACHIEVEMENTS

• Rio Declaration on Environment and Development
• Agenda 21
• UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
• Convention on Biological Diversity
• Statement of Forest Principle
• RIO STARTED WHAT WE ARE DOING TODAY...

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THE ROAD TO JOHANNESBURG..

• 1993 Commission on Sustainable
  Development(CSD) annual meetings.
• 1997 Tony Blair attended New York CSD.
• 2000 UN agree to hold Rio 10 - the World
  Summit on Sustainable Development.
• Tony Blair announces he will attend.

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KYOTO PART OF THE PICTURE

• EU ON COURSE TO RATIFY
• UK WILL RATIFY BEFORE SUMMER RECESS
• BUILDING THE NEW MARKETS.

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WSSD THE UK ENGAGES

• Financial services
• Water and sanitation
• Tourism
• Forestry

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The UK Business Council for Sustainable Energy

• Innogy
• TXU Europe
• Powergen
• United Utilities
• Scottish Power
• Lattice Group
• Shell
• BP Energy
• Working with the BWEA, CHPA

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The energy agenda...

• We will work with the UK Business Council on
  Sustainable Energy to develop further initiatives
  to promote the use of renewable and sustainable
  energy world-wide.
• The Rt Hon Tony Blair MP. Prime Minster. G8
  Statement.

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WSSD - KEY THEMES

• Improving access to energy, off grid supplies and
  the links between energy policy and poverty
  reduction
• Delivering the efficient use of energy as part of
  the goal of improving overall resource
  productivity
• Promoting innovative technology and services,
  knowledge transfer.

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WSSD AGREEMENTS?

• Type 1 - Government to Government
• Governments need to give market certainty.
• Type 2 - Partnerships with industry civil
  society
• Need to be genuinely sustainable - reputation
  knowledge building low carbon.

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UK PARTNERSHIPS

• Sustainable poverty reduction
• warm front
• company led initiatives
• sustainable energy pilots
• Innovative financing partnerships
• Alstom
• Transco
• EEC REO

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CHALLENGES (1)

• What are the new business models that will be
  needed to deliver sustainable and equitable
  energy programmes in developing countries
• How can the more distributed, resource efficient
  model for local energy developments be
  facilitated
• What can the UK do to help move the international
  lending institutions in this direction, including
  UK government investment support.

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CHALLENGES (2)

• How can the UKs experience in the design of
  integrated, sustainable communities and buildings
  be applied elsewhere
• How can UK businesses be enabled to contribute
  effectively, particularly based on their
  experience in commercially driven energy services
  and the delivery of sustainable energy into
  liberalised markets.

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WE NEED?

• Firm UK target for Sustainable Energy post 2010
• Delivery at home and in UK international support

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NEXT STEPS.

• TODAY.
• AND
• TOMORROW