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Ad Melkert Speech to the Commission on Sustainable Development Ad Melkert, 2007-05-10 - Ad Melkert Speech to the Commission on Sustainable Development

UNDP, 2 pages

Speech delivered by Under Secretary-General and UNDP Associate Administrator Ad Melkert at a high-level ministerial session of CSD-15. He noted the billions who live without access to basic energy services, and their resultant entrenchment in poverty, and spoke about the nexus between the achievement ...

Posted: 2007-05-19 Downloads: 1614 | Download Now! Reviews: 1 Rating:
Electricity Access and Development Challenge in Africa (2005) UNDP Kenya, 2005-07-13 - Electricity Access and Development Challenge in Africa (2005)

UNDP Kenya, 3 pages

A regional workshop on Electricity Access and Development Challenge in Africa was held in Nairobi, Kenya, 13-14 July 2005. The meeting was organised by AFREPREN/FWD and co-sponsored by UNDP as a partner to the GNESD. The objective was to engage regional policy makers in applying the GNESD energy access ...

Posted: 2006-03-30 Downloads: 990 | Download Now! Reviews: 1 Rating:
UNDP Side Event, 2004-12-12 - The Contribution of Energy Services to the Achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (2004)

UNDP/BDP Energy and Environment Group, 3 pages

Statement made by Mr. Shoji Nishimoto, Assistant Administrator and Director, Bureau for Development Policy, UNDP. MDG + 5 work: As you all know, during the Millennium Summit held in New York in September 2000, 189 UN member states adopted the Millennium Declaration, which contained a core group ...

Posted: 2006-03-30 Downloads: 775 | Download Now! Reviews: 1 Rating:
UNDP, 2004-12-12 - Statement on Energy and the Millennium Development Goals, Energy for Development Conference, Noordjwik-Netherlands

UNDP/BDP Energy and Environment Group, 4 pages

Statement made by Mr. Shoji Nishimoto, Assistant Administrator and Director, Bureau for Development Policy, UNDP, on 12 December 2004. Nishimoto described the role of energy in achieving the Millennium Development Goals(MDGs), the investment required in energy to achieve all eight MDGs, and 5 energy ...

Posted: 2006-03-30 Downloads: 849 | Download Now! Reviews: 1 Rating:
Press Conference: UNDP's Sustainable Energy Programme launch of 3 new publications, UN Secretariat Susan McDade, 2004-11-10 - Press Conference: UNDP's Sustainable Energy Programme launch of 3 new publications, UN Secretariat

UNDP

Ms. Susan McDade, Team Manager of the UN Development Programme's Sustainable Energy Programme; Professor Vijay Modi of Columbia University; and Dr. Fatih Birol, Head of the Economic Analysis Division of the International Energy Agency (IEA), presented a brief on the following three reports: "World ...

Posted: 2005-02-01 Downloads: 1353 | Download Now! Reviews: 1 Rating:
UN Press Briefing on Energy and Millennium Development Goals (2004) UNDP, 2004-11-10 - UN Press Briefing on Energy and Millennium Development Goals (2004)

UNDP / Colombia University / International Energy Agency, 2 pages

Susan McDade, UNDP Sustainable Energy Programme; Vijay Modi, Colombia University; and Fatih Birol, International Energy Agency, discuss critical links between energy and the Millennium Development Goals. McDade told correspondents that reaching those goals would require much greater investments in the ...

Posted: 2006-03-30 Downloads: 1026 | Download Now! Reviews: 1 Rating:
UNDP Kenya, 2004-11 - Remarks for the Global Village Energy Partnership (GVEP) Africa Facilitator's Workshop (2004)

UNDP Kenya, 2 pages

Speech by Paul Andre De La Porte, UNDP Resident Representative in Kenya and coordinator of the UN system in Kenya, at the GVEP Africa Facilitator's Workshop held in Nairobi, Kenya, in November 2004. GVEP was the major energy partnership to come out of WSSD as a joint undertaking of the World Bank, ...

Posted: 2006-03-30 Downloads: 823 | Download Now! Reviews: 1 Rating:
BBC World: Indoor Air Pollution Dima Al-Khatib, 2004-10-15 - BBC World: Indoor Air Pollution

UNDP / BBC World

UNDP's Dima Al-Khatib is interviewed on Asia Today, BBC World on the issue of indoor air pollution, on the occassion of World Women's Day. In order to protect women's health from this so-called "killer-in-the-kitchen", national efforts must be dramatically strengthened to provide women with access ...

Posted: 2005-02-07 Downloads: 1826 | Download Now! Reviews: 0 Rating:
Joint Statement on Indoor Air Pollution: World Rural Women's Day 2004 WHO/UNDP , 2004-10-15 - Joint Statement on Indoor Air Pollution: World Rural Women's Day 2004

UNDP / WHO, 2 pages

UNDP and the World Health Organisation (WHO) mark World Rural Women’s Day by drawing attention to indoor air pollution. Caused by solid fuel use, it is a major cause of death and disease in poor countries. Cleaner energy alternatives can reduce the problem. Message from Shoji Nishimoto, Director, ...

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UNDP Philippines, 2004-05-19 - Welcome Remarks for the GVEP Workshop “Consumer Lending and Microfinance to Expand Access to Energy Services” (2004)

UNDP Philippines, 5 pages

Speech by Kyo Naka, UNDP Resident Representative, at the Global Village Energy Partnership (GVEP) workshop in Manila, Philippines. On behalf of the UNDP and our local partner, the Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP), I am privileged and pleased to welcome all of you who have gathered here today ...

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