Annex C
Key agreements on controversial energy
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Johannesburg Plan of Implementation (www.johannesburgsummit.org)
8. Take joint actions and improve effort
to work together at all levels to improve access to reliable and
affordable energy services for sustainable development sufficient
to facilitate the achievement of the Millennium Development goals,
including the goal of halving the proportion of people in poverty
by 2015, and as a means to generate other important services that
mitigate poverty, bearing in mind that access to energy facilitates
the eradication of poverty. This would require actions at all
levels to:
19. Call upon Governments, as well as relevant
regional and international organisations and other relevant stakeholders,
to implement, taking into account national and regional specificities
and circumstances, the recommendations and conclusions of the
Commission on Sustainable Development concerning energy for sustainable
development adopted at its ninth session, including the issues
and option set out below bearing in mind that in view of the different
contributions to global environmental degradation, States have
common but differentiated responsibilities. This would include
action at all levels to:
19(e) Diversify energy supply by developing
advanced, cleaner, more efficient, affordable and cost-effective
energy technologies, including fossil fuel technologies as well
as renewable energy technologies, hydro included, and their transfer
to developing countries on concessional terms as mutually agreed.
With a sense of urgency, substantially increase the global share
of renewable energy sources, with the objective of increasing
its contribution to total energy supply, recognising the role
of national and voluntary regional targets as well initiatives
where they exist, and ensuring that energy policies are supportive
to developing countries' efforts to eradicate poverty, and regularly
evaluate available data to review progress to this end.
19(p).bis Take action, where appropriate,
to phase out subsidies in these areas that inhibit sustainable
development, taking fully into account the specific conditions
and different levels of development of individual countries and
considering their adverse effect particularly on developing countries.
19(s) Countries are urged to develop and
implement actions within the framework of the ninth session of
the Commission on Sustainable Development, including through public-private
partnerships, taking into account the different circumstances
of countries, based on lessons learned by Governments, international
institutions and stakeholders and including business and industry,
in the field of access to energy, including renewable energy and
energy-efficiency and advanced energy technologies, including
advanced and cleaner fossil fuel technologies.
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