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VIENNA / ENERGY CONFERENCE
STORY: VIENNA / ENERGY CONFERENCE
TRT: 2.05
SOURCE: LINX/ UNIDO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ NATS
DATELINE: 22 JUNE 2009, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
1. Wide shot, Conference Headquarters
2. Med shot, conference attendees arrival
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Kandeh K. Yumkella, UNIDO Director-General:
“Being head of an industry agency, I know that you cannot have competitive industrial development or transformation without a reliable energy source.”
4. Wide shot, audience
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Kandeh K. Yumkella, UNIDO Director-General:
“But indeed, energy access, energy efficiency and climate change are two sides of the same coin. We must address the need for developing countries, transition economies, emerging economies to have access to energy and power to generate growth in their own economies.”
6. Wide shot, audience
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Kandeh K. Yumkella, UNIDO Director-General:
“Because we know now that we can not afford to think only in the short term where energy is concerned; the lead times for change are long. The strategies we adopt now will have repercussions reaching far into the future. But there is no doubt that there is a sense of urgency that something has to be done.”
8. Wide shot, podium
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Kandeh K. Yumkella, UNIDO Director-General:
“About two billion people still rely on traditional biomass for heating and cooking and the resulting indoor air pollution is responsible for 1.6 million deaths per year in the developing world. According to the World Health Organization, this puts biomass use just a little behind malnutrition and lack of access to sanitation as a cause of death.”
10. Med shot, audience
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Rajendra Pachauri, Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change:
“I think what’s particularly important is to accept the reality that we need a major revolution in the energy sector.”
12. Wide shot, podium
Ways to secure sustainable policies and investments to allow a shift towards a low-carbon economy driven by “green” industry, are the focus of the Vienna international energy conference that opened in the Austrian capital today (22 June).
Kandeh K. Yumkella, head of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) said that “you cannot have competitive industrial development or transformation without a reliable energy source” and pointed out that “energy access, energy efficiency and climate change are two sides of the same coin”
Referring to the United Nations climate change conference taking place in Copenhagen in December, Yumkella said that “the strategies we adopt now will have repercussions reaching far into the future.”
According to the UNIDO Director-General “about two billion people still rely on traditional biomass for heating and cooking and the resulting indoor air pollution is responsible for 1.6 million deaths per year in the developing world” which “puts biomass use just a little behind malnutrition and lack of access to sanitation as a cause of death.”
Rajendra Pachauri of India, Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore, said that it is Important to “accept the reality that we need a major revolution in the energy sector”.
The three-day event, “Towards an Integrated Energy Agenda Beyond 2020”, brings together more than 500 government officials, energy and economics experts, and civil society representatives from around the world.
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