Energy Resources
Beth
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26 Jul 2011
Energy policy and strategy is pursued by the State Secretariat for Energy, with the help of bilateral and multilateral donors.
Currently, the main source of energy in Guinea-Bissau comes from forest resources. With a relatively high population growth rate (2% nationally and 4% in the capital city of Bissau), forest resources such as timber are not a sustainable energy source. Currently, 90% of the population relies on fuelwood as its primary source of energy, and government policies have...
Beth
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25 Jul 2011
Currently, the Comoros lacks an overall energy “master plan”. The government has instituted a program called ‘Harnessing of Energy’, and has pursued policies to reduce the theft and fraud of energy.
The principal source of energy in the Comoros is wood, which satisfies 78 percent of the country’s energy needs, followed by hydrocarbons, which satisfy 20 percent of energy needs. Other sources of energy, such as electricity and butane gas, account for only a...
Beth
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20 Jul 2011
In 2006, the Government of Fiji approved the country’s National Energy Policy. In 2004, Fiji prepared its National Energy Assessment.
Fiji, like any other country in the region, is heavily dependent on imported fuel to meet a major component of its energy demand. As such, Fiji is vulnerable to the continuous fluctuation of world crude oil prices. The contribution of the electricity sector to GDP is about 3.6%. Around 66.8% of the country’s electricity requirements are met from...
Beth
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20 Jul 2011
The Samoa Energy Policy was adopted in 2008.
The energy sector is one the fastest growing sectors of the Samoan economy. The commercial energy sector in Samoa has expanded rapidly over the past ten years. Key components of energy, especially electric power, have shown strong growth each year. The previously dominant traditional energy supply (the non-cash economy supply of wood fuel and coconut residues still used by households and agroindustries) now accounts for less than half of Samoa’s...
Beth
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08 Jul 2011
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July 07 2011 -- President James Michel has called on Small Island Developing States (SIDS) to take on the responsibility of becoming ‘the guardians of sustainability of our planet’ and to reclaim the concept of sustainability in the modern world order.
“Islands are more vulnerable and more threatened today than they have ever been in their history. We all know that for islands, the spectre of climate change is existential. Even those that will not be completely engulfed by...
