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UN / LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES ENERGY
STORY: UN / LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES ENERGY
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SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 22 NOVEMBER 2017, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
RECENT – NEW YORK CITY
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22 NOVEMBER 2017, NEW YORK
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Chantal Line Carpentier, Chief, New York Office of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD):
“42 per cent of LDC firms identify electricity as a major constrain. Three quarters of them experience an average of ten outages per month.”
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Chantal Line Carpentier, Chief, New York Office of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD):
“To achieve universal access to energy, LDCs must go beyond meeting basic domestic need, and target productive uses as well.”
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Chantal Line Carpentier, Chief, New York Office of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD):
“That meets the needs of producing for energy services that are at scale, affordable, economically viable, efficient, reliable and accessible.”
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9. SOUNDBITE (English) Chantal Line Carpentier, Chief, New York Office of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD):
“Because of these fast pace of technological change, these national development strategies and the new energy strategies cannot be done in isolation of the science, technology and innovation policies.”
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A new UN report says that access to modern energy, especially electricity is critically important for the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Speaking to reporters today (22 Nov) in New York, Chantal Line Carpentier from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) highlighted the importance of meeting the energy needs for production as well as domestic purposes.
She said “42 per cent of LDC firms identify electricity as a major constrain. Three quarters of them experience an average of ten outages per month,” and the outage lasts on average of 5 hours each. Her office’s report estimates that 7 per cent of revenue lost through these outages in these countries.
Carpentier also mentioned that to achieve universal access to energy, “LDCs must go beyond meeting basic domestic need, and target productive uses as well,” adding that it meets the needs of producing for energy services that are at scale: “affordable, economically viable, efficient, reliable and accessible.”
She also highlighted that science, technology and innovation policies are critical for transformational energy access.
She said “Because of these fast pace of technological change, these national development strategies and the new energy strategies cannot be done in isolation of the science, technology and innovation policies.”
The report also offers some policy recommendations which include strengthening LDC electricity systems, addressing electricity governance and finance, integrating energy and development strategies, and harnessing international cooperation.
According to the report, 507 million people or 62 per cent of the population in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) no not have access to electricity, compared with 10 per cent in Other Developing Countries (ODCs).
54 per cent of people without access to electricity worldwide live in LDCs and 82 per cent of people in rural areas in LDCs have no access to electricity.
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