International Energy and Climate Policy - Energy and Development

Since the Johannesburg conference in 2002 there is worldwide a lot of attention for poverty reduction. Energy and poverty is one of the themes and the group is well positioned to contribute to this theme. The G8 has reiterated to importance to alleviate poverty and highlighted the role of access to energy. The Dutch Ministry for Foreign Aid has expressed a clear interest in energy and poverty.

News and Events

• Launch of CASINDO website (see also the News item)
• Blogs from Bali (coming soon once the CASINDO website is in the air)

Ongoing and Recent Projects

• CASINDO (see also the news item above).
  Aims to intensify and expand the activities that are currently implemented in four target regions in the framework of the CAREPI project as well as ongoing activities under the Indonesian-Netherlands Energy Working Group.
• CAREPI
  Contributes to poverty Alleviation through Regional Energy Planning in Indonesia.
• IS Academy
  A study to investigate how the Netherlands can promote the use of renewable energy in developing countries with the goal to improve access to affordable energy, support development and reduce poverty and increase energy security at the national level.
• APPLES
  contribute to poverty reduction and alleviation in South Africa by developing implementation strategies to enhance access to affordable energy services for poor communities.

Earlier Projects

Here you can find information about projects in which ECN Policy Studies played a leading role or contributed as a partner.