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STORY: WORLD BANK/ ELECTRICITY
TRT: 2.02
SOURCE: WORLD BANK
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 28 MAY 2013 WASHINGTON DC / FILE
RECENT – 2012, WORLD BANK HEADQUARTERS, WASHINGTON DC.
1. Wide shot, exterior World bank Headquarters
28 MAY 2013 WASHINGTON DC
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Rachel Kyte, Vice President, Sustainable Development Network Eric Swanson, Development Data Program Manager, World Bank:
"So here at the World Bank Group we have twin goals of ending extreme poverty y 2030 and building greater and shared prosperity. Our problem is, and our clients’ problem is, that that’s going to be very difficult to do when 1.2 billion people, that’s equivalent to the population of India, are living without access to electricity today. Access to energy is absolutely fundamental in the struggle against poverty. Its energy that lights the lamp that lets you do your homework. It’s energy that maintains the heat in a hospital. It’s energy that switches the lights on in a small office, where most people work. And so without energy there is no economic growth, there is no dynamism and there is no opportunity. So we will do everything we can in the World Bank Group from between now and 2030 to make sure everyone has access to energy.”
FILE – WORLD BANK – 2012, MONGOLIA
3. Med shot, man pointing up at solar panel
4. Close up, tv and electronic equipment in herder's home
5. Med shot, man pointing at lightbulb
6. Close up, batteries and charging electronic equipment
28 MAY 2013 WASHINGTON DC
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Rachel Kyte, Vice President, Sustainable Development Network Eric Swanson, Development Data Program Manager, World Bank Group:
“A goal has been set under the auspices of Sustainable Energy For All, which is co-chaired by the World Bank and the United Nations, and that is to double the percentage of renewables in the global energy mix by 2030. This means increasing the amount of renewables from 18 percent, which is what it is today, to 36 percent. On the one hand, the direction of travel is good – we are increasing the percentage slowly. But demand is also increasing. So we have to be ever vigilant and work together to meet that goal. There’s also another goal that relates to energy efficiency. We have to increase the energy efficiency in the global system today, especially in middle income countries and high income countries. For countries just setting out on their journey of building energy systems, we want to help them build that in the most efficient way possible. I think the important thing to realize is that every country has an energy transition story, but each country’s energy transition story will be different depending where they are today. But I think the thing that is important is that increasingly we all agree where we want to be in 2030.”
FILE – WORLD BANK - 2012, KENYA, 2012
8. Wide shot, electrical power lines
28 MAY 2013 WASHINGTON DC
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Rachel Kyte, Vice President, Sustainable Development Network Eric Swanson, Development Data Program Manager, World Bank Group:
“The World Bank Group’s Global Tracking Report is an important tool I think now because it provides baseline information on where we are in the journey toward meeting agreed global energy goals. A baseline report will be very important. Everyone will be able to measure their progress towards the baseline. And we know that’s important because what gets measured is what gets done. For example countries will be able to measure their progress but we too will be able to measure our progress. In the last five years the World Bank Group has doubled the share of renewables in our energy portfolio. We want to continue to move in that direction and this baseline report will allow everybody to see how well we’re all doing.”
FILE – WORLD BANK - 2012, KENYA, 2012
10. Close up, cell phones charging
11. Med shot, barber shaving man's head
11. Wide shot, barber shaving man's head
About 1.2 billion people around the world, almost the population of India, don’t have access to electricity, 2.8 billion have to rely on wood or other biomass to cook and heat their homes, renewable energy accounts for 18 percent of the global energy mix, and the largest energy savings and greatest expansion of renewables happened in China.
Those are just some of the findings of a unique new report by a multi-agency team led by the World Bank. The report, compiled by experts from 15 agencies, is the first of a series to monitor progress towards the three objectives of the Sustainable Energy for All initiative, launched in 2011 by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. The initiative, whose advisory board is co-chaired by World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim, is mobilizing a global coalition of governments, private sector and civil society to achieve, by 2030, its three objectives of universal access, doubled renewables and doubled energy efficiency improvement.
The report puts numbers to those three objectives and identifies what needs to change where and how to do it.
In an interview on the report launch World Bank Vice President Rachel Kyte, said that, “without energy there is no economic growth, there is no dynamism and there is no opportunity”, she added, “we will do everything we can in the World Bank Group from between now and 2030 to make sure everyone has access to energy.”
About 80 percent of those without access to modern energy live in rural areas. Although 1.7 billion people gained access to electricity between 1990 and 2010, this is only slightly ahead of population growth of 1.6 billion over the same period. The pace of expansion will have to double to meet the 100 percent access target by 2030. To bring electricity to that one billion plus people using conventional energy sources would increase global carbon dioxide emissions by less than one percent.
The reports finds only “modest” progress since 1990 on expanding access to electricity and clean household fuels, increasing the share of renewable energy and improving energy efficiency.
Twenty countries in Asia and Africa account for about two-thirds those without access to electricity, and three-quarters of those who use solid fuels—wood, charcoal, animal and crop waste, and coal—to cook or heat their homes.
The study calculates that renewable energy accounted for 18 percent of the global energy mix in 2010, and that the improvement rate of energy efficiency, described by a compound annual growth rate of energy intensity (CAGR), was -1.3 percent between 1990 and 2010.
Twenty so-called “high-impact” countries identified in the report as accounting for 80 percent of energy consumption will need to lead the way on doubling the share of renewables to 36 percent of the global energy mix and doubling energy efficiency.
Kyte said that “On the one hand, the direction of travel is good – we are increasing the percentage slowly. But demand is also increasing. So we have to be ever vigilant and work together to meet that goal.”
There’s also the need to increase the energy efficiency in the global system today, especially in middle income countries and high income countries.
Kyte said that “For countries just setting out on their journey of building energy systems, we want to help them build that in the most efficient way possible. I think the important thing to realize is that every country has an energy transition story, but each country’s energy transition story will be different depending where they are today. But I think the thing that is important is that increasingly we all agree where we want to be in 2030.”
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