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Wealthy nations want
change in energy policy
JOHANNESBURG, South
Africa (AP) — The United
States, Saudi Arabia and other
wealthy nations at a U.N. sum
mit worked Tuesday to water
down proposals to rapidly
expand the use of clean, renew
able energy technologies around
the globe.
Renewable energy sources
like wind power and solar ener
gy produce smaller and more
expensive amounts of electricity
than a traditional power plant.
But the technologies generate a
tiny fraction of the smog that
comes from burning oil, coal
and other fossil fuels, as well as
carbon dioxide and other gases
believed to accelerate global
warming.
A proposal for the World
Summit on Sustainable
Development’s action plan calls
for the use of the technologies to
be increased to account for 15
percent of the world’s total ener
gy production by 2010.
Sources sitting in on the
negotiations said delegates from
the United States, Saudi Arabia
and other industrialized and oil
states were lobbying to elimi
nate the provision and set no
specific goals.
Even the European Union —
some members of which, like
Germany, strongly embrace
renewable energy sources —
wavered on the agreement.
“We may have to bend if we
can’t convince all of our part
ners,” said EU official
Christine Day. “It’s early in the
negotiations.”
The moves by the industrial
ized countries angered environ
mental groups, which are
demanding stiffer anti-pollution
measures.
The 10-day summit, which
began Monday, is focused on
uplifting the world’s poor and
protecting the global environ
ment. The United Nations
expects it to be the largest sum
mit in its history. More than 100
heads of state are scheduled to
attend.
During Tuesday’s open ses
sion, delegates called for
increased global efforts to bring
new agricultural technologies to
poor farmers and railed against
European and American agricul
tural subsidies, saying they
made it difficult for poor farmers
to compete on the world market.
Developing countries are
hoping the summit’s action plan
will call for the reduction or
elimination of subsidies, a pro
vision opposed by wealthy
countries. The summit was
unlikely to resolve the issue.
“No country can realistically
be expected to make a major
commitment here on those mat
ters,” said South African Trade
Minister Alec Erwin.
No country can
realistically be
expected to make
a major commit
ment here on those
matters.
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— Alec Erwin
South African Trade
Also Tuesday, non-govern
mental groups complained they
were being sidelined at the sum
mit, saying they had trouble get
ting seats at the main event in a
building that can’t hold all the
accredited delegates. The United
Nations said later it would try to
accommodate them.
Targets and timetables were
added to the summit’s imple
mentation plan as organizers
sought new ways to compel
nations to live up to their
pledges made in the heat of
international diplomacy. In the
10 years since the Earth Summit
in Rio de Janeiro, treaties pro
tecting biodiversity and limiting
climate change have languished.
However, the United States is
seeking to erase specific targets
and timetables on many topics
throughout the plan, which
includes 150 pages addressing
biodiversity, food security, clean
water and health care.
Instead, U.S. officials said
they prefer voluntary partner
ships with business and other
groups.
“I don’t know of a goal that
has protected a child from a
waterborne disease or provided
energy to a village,” a senior
U.S. diplomat told reporters in a
background briefing. “Goals do
not by themselves bring about
change or results.”
The United States, Canada
and other large energy produc
ers also opposed a provision
requiring industrialized nations
to phase out some subsidies for
their energy industries, accord
ing to representatives of a U.S.
non-governmental organization
monitoring the energy discus
sion.
The provision called for
eliminating subsidies for prac
tices that do not support sustain
able development, but did not
define the subsidies or practices.
In the United States, renew
able sources provide 1 percent
of the nation’s total power sup
ply despite recent expansions in
wind turbine “farms” and other
sources.
Delegates are circulating two
agreements on renewable energy.
One would eliminate all tar
get dates.
The alternative would set the
15 percent target. However, the
broadly written definition of
renewable energy would include
hydroelectric dams and wood
burning — energy sources that
conservationists condemn, saying
they damage the environment.
Factoring in those sources,
renewable energy already con
tributes 14 percent of power
supplies worldwide. That
would make the increase called
for in the agreement just anoth
er percentage point — a target
clean energy supporters call
unacceptable.
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