29/11/2012
SPECIAL REPORT by EurActiv*, 29 November 2012 — UN plans to double the world’s renewable energy capacity within two decades are under threat from fossil-fuel handouts, which have almost doubled in three years, campaigners say.
**Traffic slows to a crawl on the Monash Freeway in Melbourne, Australia through peak hour traffic. | fir0002 | flagstaffotos.com.au
More than 60 nations have committed to the UN’s ambitious Sustainable Energy For All (SE4ALL) targets which would, among other things, double the amount of renewables in the global energy mix.
But the world currently spends twelve times more on fossil fuels subsidies than renewable ones, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance, and campaigners say this could threaten the SE4ALL project.
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29/11/2012
By Shahira Amin for RIA Novosti*, 28 November 2012, Cairo — After five days of angry street protests that left a Muslim Brotherhood supporter dead in the Nile Delta City of Damanhour, Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi has decided to scale back sweeping powers he seized last week that would make him immune to judicial oversight.
In a televised press briefing earlier this week, Presidential spokesman Yasser Ali said that the President has full respect for the judiciary . He explained that the new powers would be limited, allowing the President to make unilateral decisions only on “sovereign matters.”
No definition of the term was provided indicating that it would be up to the President alone to decide on what he considered as ‘sovereign’.
President Morsi had earlier defended his new powers insisting they were “temporary but necessary to complete the democratic transition.
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29/11/2012
Paris – The global economy is expected to make a hesitant and uneven recovery over the coming two years. Decisive policy action is needed to ensure that stalemate over fiscal policy in the United States and continuing euroarea instability do not plunge the world back into recession, according to the OECD’s latest Economic Outlook.
Source: OECD
“The world economy is far from being out of the woods,” OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría said during the Economic Outlook launch in Paris.*
“The US ‘fiscal cliff’, if it materialises, could tip an already weak economy into recession, while failure to solve the euro area crisis could lead to a major financial shock and global downturn,’ he added.
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29/11/2012
“A global energy outlook cannot just talk about rich countries and ignore the other end of the spectrum.” This is why, for more than a decade, the World Energy Outlook (WEO) has published data and analysis on modern energy access for the poor*. Today, it does so again.
**Women in Madagascar preparing to use wood as their primary energy source. Sub-Saharan Africa scores lowest on the WEO 2012’s Energy Development Index. | Photo by World Resources Institute Staff
The International Energy Agency‘s WEO 2012 finds that, despite progress in the past year, nearly 1.3 billion people have no access to electricity while 2.6 billion must use traditional fuels (such as wood, charcoal, tree leaves, crop residues and animal waste) to cook their food, breathing in noxious smoke as they do so.
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