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UQ Energy Initiative Energy Perspectives 2014
ENERGY POVERTY
The forgotten dimension of the energy trilemma
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Basic Access
Productive Use
Modern Life
Excessive Consumption
The role of Energy in Development
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Energy drives prosperity drives energy consumption
Energy Access
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• Almost 3 billion people
rely on biomass for the
cooking and heating
requirements, including;
• 1.3 billion people who
lack ‘access’ to
electricity.
• Many times this number
lack reliable or affordable
electricity.
Definitions of Electricity Access
• Rural – 50 kWh per capita annum or 250 kWh per household
5 hours per day of one small fan or two light bulbs
• Urban – 100 kWh per capita or 500 kWh per household
add mobile phone charging and a TV
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Energy
Environ’t
Water
Food
Pollution
Irrigation
Refrigeration
Climate Change
Transport
Forrest Depletion
Population
Health
Sanitation
Production
Complex & Interconnected
Issues & Outcomes
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An estimated 3.5 million premature deaths pa
2nd highest cause after water / sanitation
Health & Wellbeing Impacts are devastating
And Gender Inequity
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Deforestation & Water Resource Impacts
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Cumulative Population Ranked According to Decreasing Annual CO2 Emissions (in Billions)
CO2 Emissions Distribution
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~2.7 Billion emit <1 t CO2 pa
~ 1 Billion emit >10 t CO2 pa
Providing significant energy to reduce poverty
could have significant consequences for
carbon emissions
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Modest Energy Provision will have consequences
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Providing just 2,500 kWh per capita
to the 2.7 Billion impoverished
through coal would add >5Gt pa CO2
SE4All. 2014. Sustainable Energy for All Dataset. edited by World Bank.
Dolan, Kerry, and Luisa Kroll. 2014. "The World's Billionaires." Forbes.com Accessed 1 October. http://www.forbes.com/billionaires/.
Addressing energy impoverishment
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No electricity &
lack clean
cooking services
No
electricity,
but have
clean
cooking
services
Have
electricity,
but lack
clean
cooking
services
Energy impoverished: Lack modern energy services to improve
aspects of quality of life (health,
knowledge, economic, social, …) as
determined by community or individual
Less energy impoverished: Have electricity,
& clean cooking facilities but suffer from poor short
term (fuel poverty, health issues, energy insecurity…)
and long term (climate, resources, …) net
relationships with modern energy services
Energy troubled: Good short term but poor long
term net relationship
(climate, resources, …) with
modern energy services
Energy sufficient: Net
improvement in quality of life in
both short and long term
Po
pu
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1,645 billionaires
>2.8b people in 2012
SE4ALL by 2030 (access & RE) (energy efficiency & RE)
Strengthening linkages between energy interventions and community prosperity
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After Andrew Pascale
UQ PhD Candidate)
Energy & Poverty Research at UQ est. 2013
Partners in the USA and India
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Transdisciplinary Research
Education & societal
awareness
Complex Problem Solving
Outreach, delivery & business models
for Impact
Technology & Innovation for sustainable
development
Environment
Energy
Livelihoods
Health
Social Outcomes
THANK YOU
Acknowledgements
• Photographs courtesy of
Fire Fuels & the fate of 3 billion by Guatam N. Yadama
Oxford Press 2013
• The UQ Energy & Poverty Research Group
ENERGY POVERTY
•The forgotten dimension of the energy trilemma
•A complex problem with enormous implications for global health &
wellbeing, the economy and the environment
•There are no easy solutions and no single magic bullet
•Interventions are subject to many unintended consequences
UQ Energy Initiative Energy Perspectives 2014