fault lines in the desert - solar street lamp

This is a place of contradiction.
It has an unusual state narrative rooted in sustainability, led by Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, founder of the UAE (Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan ·
It is the fifth largest source of hydrocarbon energy on the planet and may be the biggest investor in renewable energy.
It sits next to Saudi Arabia, where women can't drive, but 37% of engineering students at its top Technical College, Madar, are women.
Its spectacular Grand Mosque has the largest carpet in the world, its green background borders the sand of the desert, symbolizing the battle with the desert, which is the heart of life here.
But while this is a major center for seawater desalination, the recycled sewage is carefully used to irrigate the jujube palms that make this garden city a Garden City, the huge impact of oil wealth ---
Even spend time in the environment-
The water level dropped by 5 metres a year. (
A major project for the Ministry of Environment is solar pumping to maintain wildlife. )
The annual World Energy Future Summit is linked to the international water summit this year.
The head of the Abu Dhabi Environmental Investment Authority and the research initiative, Madar, Sultan Ahmed Jaber, is the usual direct self who explains why: "We face the shared responsibility of balancing our growing economy with our limited resources.
This balance is based on two closely connected realities. -
Energy and water.
Although the UAE has the fifth largest oil reserves, the UAE believes that water is more important than oil.
We no longer solve the energy problem without considering the required water, and we no longer solve the water problem without considering the required energy.
After all, 50% of water is used to generate energy, and 7% of it is used to pump water.
This leads us to two key principles: reducing demand and improving technology. -
Through an integrated strategy.
This place is here, now is the time.
"But despite Al Jaber's strength, the whole landscape of these connected meetings is a lot of contradictions.
First of all, there are different sounds.
Suleiman Jasir al
OPEC representative Herbish issued a warning: "There is a chance of cost here.
If you tell us that you don't need our oil in 20 years, we won't spend the billions of dollars needed for the new field ---
It won't be there when you need oil.
"Then, the biggest social challenge that oil poses is ---
Its uneven distribution in the region is at the heart of the concerns of Queen Rania of Jordan: "The Arab world is at a critical moment.
There is a huge gap in access to energy in the region.
This obvious difference is evident in countries with common borders. -
96% of Jordan's energy needs depend on imports.
Let's start with getting energy.
Children feel the worst impact of energy poverty.
The lights for studying at home should be easy. Yet in Yemen [
Border with Saudi Arabia
Some days less than an hour of electricity--
Sitting under a street light learning is not an option for girls.
As a result, Yemen has set up a female-led solar company in Injaz.
In Sudan, midwives pray for mothers to give birth during the day.
A midwife told me that a strong wind blew out the kerosene lamp during a delivery.
I was forced to continue feeling in the dark.
Jordan has a large young population.
But there are too few opportunities we can offer them.
In the past two years, this energy of frustration has spread to the Arab streets.
The priority of Arab youth is to find a job.
We can use new energy to promote the solar revolution and build green energy and green jobs.
In Jordan, women in beduine are being trained to become solar engineers to replace kerosene with solar energy.
The Arab world is not only in the perfect position to develop new energy, but also in the leading position.
"The contradictions shown here are far beyond the region.
Professor Jeffrey Sachs plays the role he is used to: Truthteller.
"We are not a solution to the climate crisis.
We don't have a plan, we don't have a scene, we don't have a track, we don't have a public policy.
"Kandeh Yumkella of the UN Sustainable Energy Initiative agrees, yes, we are leading to 4-
The level of global temperature rise.
But he also reminded the audience that countries that lack the energy necessary for a decent life are in trouble.
Adnan Amin, head of the United Nations IRENA Renewable Energy Agency, explained the issue differently from Sachs.
"We need a new way of doing things.
We need an investment-oriented approach.
Top-down normative methods do not work fast enough. The U. S.
Because there is less coal, more wind and more natural gas, it is in line with Kyoto's regulations.
Amin pointed out that the latest report shows that in all remote areas,
The grid is cheaper than conventional diesel.
Interestingly, he asked OPEC's Suleiman "if the report confirms this statement, half of your portfolio will be used for renewable energy.
Suleiman does not bite.
Behind all these contradictions is the core dilemma.
Investment has been flowing to fossil fuels for a century and a half. -
First coal, then oil, and finally natural gas.
However, the two tasks of Sudan Jaber have not yet mobilized investment ---
Reduce demand and improve technology-
In any size needed.
In fact, the latest Bloomberg New Energy report shows that investment in renewable energy fell by more than 10% in 2012.
Achim Steiner of UNEP concluded: "Oil, natural gas and fossil fuels are the cheapest option because we have not considered all the costs.
From this point of view, engineers, decision makers and business leaders have been trained to enable sens-
E at the end of the 20 th century.
The whole problem is finance. -public-
Private money is committed, but not mobile. -
Africa, in particular, is frozen. -
We need to be responsible for this failure.
This is all about investment.
Emirates people often quote Sheikh Zayed as saying, "you don't have a future if you don't understand your past . ".
"The story of promoting sustainable development in this country is full of strong cultural and historical lessons.
These people like their scenery, though it is naked and burnt.
Their environmental protection is local.
But their role as a major oil producer and its impact are global.
Neither they nor the global leaders gathered here have yet to come up with an equally compelling global narrative of how the world goes beyond the strip-based past.
Mine the earth as fuel and release waste into the atmosphere and water.
Everything in the past is still threatening the future.
Carl Pope, a senior leader in the environmental movement, is a former executive director and chairman of the Sierra Club. Mr. Pope is co-author --
With Paul Labor. -
Strategic Ignorance: Why did the Bush administration, desperate to undermine environmental progress for a century, call it a "very intense book" by the New York book review ".