Clean Energy Initiative
Fact Sheet
U.S. Agency for International Development, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Environmental Protection
Washington, DC
April 21, 2006 Purpose of Initiative
The Clean Energy Initiative: Powering Sustainable Development from Village to Metropolis seeks to provide millions of people in the developing world with access to affordable, reliable, clean, healthy, and efficient energy services. This U.S.-led, multi-year, initiative has four programs to achieve key goals:
- The Global Village Energy Partnership will increase access to modern and affordable energy services in areas either not served or under-served by current energy delivery systems. (USG lead: USAID)
- Efficient Energy for Sustainable Development will improve the productivity and efficiency of energy systems, while reducing waste and pollution, saving money, and improving reliability through more energy efficient processes and technologies, and production modernization. (USG lead: DOE)
- The Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles will reduce vehicular air pollution in developing countries through the promotion of clean transportation fuels (e.g. unleaded gasoline, low sulfur fuels), and vehicles. (USG lead: EPA)
- The Partnership for Clean Indoor Air will promotehealthier indoor cooking and heating practices to reduce the estimated 1.6 million annual, preventable deaths associated with breathing indoor air pollution from burning traditional biomass fuels (wood, dung, crop residues) and coal indoors for home cooking and heating. (USG lead: EPA)
Partners
The Global Village Energy Partnership (GVEP): As of April 2006, more than 1,000 organizations (government, private sector, and civil society) representing over 90 countries have committed to the Partnership's Statement of Principles, thereby becoming GVEP partners. The partner breakdown includes 44% from NGOs, 31% from the private sector, 11% from bilateral and developing country governments, 7% consultants, 3% from multilateral organizations, and 4% other. For a complete listing of partners, please visit the GVEP website at www.gvep.org.
Efficient Energy for Sustainable Development (EESD): As of April 2006, more than 80 organizations (government, industry, and civil society) have committed to the objectives of the Efficient Energy for Sustainable Development Partnership. The partner breakdown includes 30% from business and industry 21% from NGOs and academia,, 20% financial institutions, 20% from bilateral and country governments, and 8% multilateral organizations. The EESD website, www.pi.energy.gov/clean_energy_initiative offers a complete listing of partners.
Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles (PCFV): As of May 2006, over 80 organizations from government, industry, and civil society have committed to the Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles. The partner breakdown includes 22% from NGOs, 30% from the private sector, 30% from governments, and 18% other (international organizations, private consultants, academic institutions). A complete list of partners can be found at www.unep.org/pcfv/main/main.htm.
Partnership for Clean Indoor Air (PCIA): As of April 2006, the Partnership has grown to more than 120 organizations working in 67 countries to improve health, livelihood, and quality of life by reducing exposure to indoor air pollution from household energy use. The partner breakdown includes 14% from governments, 79% from NGOs and the private sector, 7% from multilateral organizations, and 4% other. A complete list of partners can be found at www.PCIAonline.org.
Partnership Targets
The Global Village Energy Partnership: Targets established for the 10-year Partnership, to be accomplished by the year 2012, include over 30 countries with a National Action Plan for energy-poverty programs; over 400 million additional people with access to modern energy services; and over 50,000 communities serviced with electricity.
Efficient Energy for Sustainable Development: The EESD partnership seeks to achieve its objectives through activities along three tracks: promoting public sector leadership by example; facilitating locally managed financial programs to attract affordable and long-term financing; and advancing sustainable community design and development. The partnership aims to achieve at least 10% energy efficiency gains through project development in up to 20 host countries over 10 years; establish U.S. community partnerships in up to 8 countries; and facilitate government energy management plans saving at least 10% of budget overhead costs in up to 10 countries.
The Partnership for Clean Indoor Air is bringing together governments, industry, and non-governmental organizations to increase the use of affordable, reliable, clean, efficient, and safe home cooking and heating practices. The Partnership aims to reduce the mortality related to indoor air pollution in targeted areas by 50%. The Partnership is mobilizing the resources and expertise of Partners to achieve its' mission by focusing on four priority areas: addressing social and cultural factors through public awareness and education campaigns; developing local markets and financing mechanisms for improved cooking alternatives; improving the design and performance of cooking and heating technologies; and monitoring the indoor air pollution, health and environmental impact of interventions.
The Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles is a global partnership focused on eliminating lead in gasoline worldwide and reducing sulfur in gasoline and diesel fuels, along with support for the development and adoption of cleaner vehicle requirements. Partnership goals include the global elimination of lead in gasoline by the end of 2008, and a world-wide goal of reducing sulfur in transportation fuels to less than 50 ppm.
Progress Toward Targets
The U.S. Government is working with other governments, international financial institutions, industry, and civil society partners to implement Clean Energy Initiative activities in a range of countries over the next calendar year. These activities will focus on increased access to modern energy services, energy efficiency, cleaner fuels and improved air quality. The U.S. Government has formed an interagency working group (including the Department of State, USAID, DOE, and EPA) that is coordinating its efforts with U.S. missions and embassies worldwide to identify appropriate development activities to be implemented in the coming year.
The Global Village Energy Partnership: Since its inception in 2002, GVEP has initiated National Action Plans and energy-poverty program development in 19 countries. These include Latin America (Bolivia, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico); Africa (Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia); and Asia (India, Philippines and Sri Lanka). GVEP has developed training programs in energy services delivery for entrepreneurs, microfinance organizations and financial institution officers. A global risk mitigation facility is in development to leverage local financial capital markets and offer pre-investment support to developing country bankers to increase their investment in energy access projects. GVEP is working towards re-targeting host country government, USAID, World Bank and other donor funding from a focus on purely rural electrification programs to a focus on stakeholder-driven energy programs dealing with broader energy-poverty and modern energy service delivery issues in at least 10 countries.
Efficient Energy for Sustainable Development: The Partnership is combining "market push and pull" strategies to create demand for energy efficient products, services and technologies in the following ways: (1) Facilitating technical assistance and training on best practices regarding standards, labeling and testing protocols (S&L); energy audits; government energy management plans in rapidly industrializing countries (e.g., India, China, Brazil, Philippines and Mexico);advancing regional S&L harmonization and public sector energy management benchmarking in Asia and North America; (2) Building local capacity within in APEC economies to raise capital cost-effectively for smaller scale energy efficiency (EE) and renewable energy (RE) projects, starting with pilots in Mexico, Thailand and China; A new "Financing High Performance, Low Impact Buildings" initiative has been approved for implementation by the APEC Energy Ministers; (3) Developing Sustainable Communities to accelerate the use of Energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies in community infrastructure projects.
he Partnership for Clean Indoor Air: The Partnership has strengthened relationships and leveraged resources through capacity building workshops (focused on cook stove design and performance, social marketing, and indoor air pollution and socioeconomic evaluation), as well as and seminars and country network roundtables to raise awareness and generate action. Partners are implementing pilot projects to identify effective approaches to reduce people's exposure to indoor air pollution. In addition, the Partnership has developed tools and resources such as, design and performance guidance for cooking and heating practices and a catalog of intervention evaluation (indoor air pollution and socioeconomic) methods.
The Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles: The partnership is working globally to eliminate lead from gasoline, and is providing technical assistance on public outreach, blood lead testing and monitoring, and policy options for refinery modifications. Since the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, all of the 49 countries of sub-Saharan Africa have eliminated lead from gasoline, affecting many millions of people. The Partnership is also sponsoring regional and sub-regional workshops, designed to help countries and regions toward clean fuel and vehicle options. In Mexico, Chile, Thailand, China, and India, EPA is working under the partnership umbrella to demonstrate the benefits of retrofitting heavy-duty diesel vehicles with new emission control technologies and bringing in low-sulfur fuel. The partnership has issued a report on the impact of unleaded gasoline on older vehicles (valve seat recession), and is finishing other reports on Octane Requirements, and Sulfur and its Impacts on Emissions.
Next Steps
The Global Village Energy Partnership: The partnership will finalize National Action Plans, secure funding and move to implementation in 20 target countries, implement entrepreneur, microfinance and financial institution training, and launch a risk mitigation facility to leverage millions of dollars of investment in energy-poverty investments in developing countries and a GVEP Actions Program (GAP) Fund to support upstream project development activities of GVEP partners.
Efficient Energy for Sustainable Development: The Partnership will focus on scaling up best practices, innovative financing and sustainable community models by increasing synergies with international and regional networks and partnerships by 1) Building consensus on best practices for financing energy efficiency and renewable energy projects in Asia; 2) Contributing to the activities of the Marrakech International Task Force for Sustainable Products and the Asian Pacific Partnership for Clean Development and Climate 3) In partnership with REEEP, ICLEI, Mega-Cities and others establishing an open network for distributed peer production of models and tools for energy smart community planning and development; and 4) Establishing an APEC network of municipalities to facilitate financing for green building and smart growth practices.
The Partnership for Clean Indoor Air: As the pilot projects demonstrate results, the Partnership will target the diffusion of successful, replicable models on a broader scale, focusing on regional approaches to adoption. Performance will be evaluated, approaches (outreach programs, social marketing, business models and financing mechanisms, technology design and performance, exposure protocols) refined, and longer-term implementation plans identified. A priority is long-term sustainability through local market transformation. The Partnership will also support the direct exchange within regions of experiences among stove users, researchers, entrepreneurs, project implementers, and program directors.
The Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles: In 2006 and 2007, the Partnership will begin projects to promote the use of catalytic converters for vehicles in Africa. In addition, the Partnership will work on developing harmonized fuel standards for the region, including standards for sulfur in gasoline and diesel fuel. The Partnership is expanding its clean fuels activities in the Middle East, with a workshop in Cairo; and in Central and Eastern Europe, with workshops in Serbia and Turkey. The PCFV is launching a global campaign to eliminate lead from gasoline in the 35 or so countries that still use lead as an octane booster, with the goal of global phase-out by the end of 2008. The Partnership will accelerate lead phase-out activities in Indonesia, the 4th largest country in the world. The Partnership will publish documents on sulfur and its effect on emissions and on octane requirements.
Calendar of Events
- APEC Energy Working Group Meeting, Singapore, Malaysia, May 2006
- REEEP Energy Efficiency Investment Forum, NYC, USA, May 2006
- Mayors' Asia Pacific Environmental Summit, Melbourne, Australia, May 2006
- International Task Force for Sustainable Products, London England, June 2006
- Mega-Cities Summit, London, England, January 2007 nb
Resources
The U.S. launched the Clean Energy Initiative at the World Summit on Sustainable Development with a commitment of $42 million. U.S. funds will leverage up to $400 million in additional resources from other partners, over the next several years.
The Global Village Energy Partnership: USAID's GVEP related activities in fiscal year 2003 - 2005 totaled $109 million with an estimated 15.7 million beneficiaries receiving new or improved access to modern energy services. Other bilateral institutions have provided direct contributions totaling approximately $12 million to the GVEP Technical Secretariat. Additionally, GVEP is leading to investments in energy-poverty reduction activities by the World Bank and other regional banks in excess of $770 million of new loans.
Efficient Energy for Sustainable Development: Through the Department of Energy's program offices and laboratories, the EESD program leverages resources and expertise to improve efficient energy generation and use. To date, the United States Government has committed $3.6 million, which has leveraged approximately $12 million in financial and in-kind contributions from partners and other sources.
The Partnership for Clean Indoor Air: The United States Government has contributed over $3.0 million which has leveraged approximately $6 million of new investments from other partners. The Partnership is also creating new synergies among Partners whose investments, in all likelihood, exceed $20 million annually.
The Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles: To date, the U.S. has contributed over $3.1 million to the partnership, while sixty-eight partner organizations have offered both financial and in-kind resources, including roughly $3 million in direct contributions, and 4 full-time and several part-time staff. The partnership's work has leveraged commitments in countries to address the need for cleaner fuels through refinery investments - these commitments that are worth hundreds of millions of dollars or more.
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