UN Helps Developing Nations Use Clean Energy

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is opening access to clean renewable energy for rural households in developing nations. Impoverished people will now be able to turn in their kerosene lamps and diesel generators for clean renewable energy.

Thanks to the Clean Development Mechanism, registered projects will be able to earn salable credits all while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and contribute to sustainable development. Furthermore, the CDM enables emission-reduction projects in developing nations to earn certified emission reduction (CER) credits. In an effort to reach the emission targets, as outlined under the Kyoto Protocol, industrialized nations can even trade, sell and use CERs.

The CDM will give communities with no electricity access to renewable electricity generation technologies. As long as 75 per cent of consumers are households, these communities will be able to technology such as solar electric panels.

"This is what the CDM is all about-reducing green gas emission and contributing to a sustainable development," said CDM Executive Board Chair Maosheng Duan.

-Akshika Patel


SOURCE: UN News Centre