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Global energy governance ‘needs urgent reform’ | Climate News Network

http://www.climatenewsnetwork.net/2013/01/global-energy-governance-needs-urgent-reform

Global energy governance ‘needs urgent reform’

January 24, 2013 in Energy

By Kieran Cooke

The world badly needs secure energy supplies and a stable climate. But the international mechanisms it has developed to regulate the way energy is exploited and shared belong to another era, analysts say.

LONDON, 24 January – Existing bodies overseeing the global energy sector are inadequate and have failed to adapt to widespread changes in energy supply and demand, says a new report. A shake-up of global energy institutions is urgently needed – and nothing short of a technology revolution is called for in order to tackle the twin challenges of rising energy demand and climate change mitigation.

The report, The Reform of Global Energy Governance, by Neil Hirst at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College, London and Antony Froggatt of the London-based think tank, Chatham House, outlines how the energy market has changed in recent years.

A mettre en relation avec la réflexion de Jonas Gahr Støre sur la gouvernance mondiale dans le monde diplomatique :

Trop de sommets tue les sommets, par Jonas Gahr Støre (Le Monde diplomatique)

►http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2012/09/STORE/48103

Une frénésie planétaire de rencontres
Trop de sommets tue les sommets

De nouvelles puissances sont apparues, ces dernières décennies, à côté des centres de pouvoir historiques, rendant plus difficile encore la gestion des dossiers internationaux : commerce, environnement, équilibres stratégiques, etc. Du G20 aux conférences sur le climat, les réunions multilatérales se multiplient. Mais elles ne donnent pas des résultats spectaculaires…
par Jonas Gahr Støre, septembre 2012
Aperçu

La politique internationale connaît un étrange paradoxe. Nous vivons une ère de coopération et d’échanges sans précédent : diplomates, experts et décideurs partagent idées et projets comme jamais auparavant. M. Robert Zoellick, le directeur sortant de la Banque mondiale, parle du nouvel ordre international comme d’un ensemble de « liens ténus reliant les Etats souverains au sein d’un système multilatéral ». On ne compte plus les nouvelles organisations, et on a l’impression qu’il se tient des sommets sur tout et n’importe quoi.

#Corruption A Leading Theory Behind India’s Blackouts : NPR
http://www.npr.org/2012/08/07/158380929/corruption-a-leading-theory-behind-indias-blackouts

The world’s biggest power outages last week have exposed one of India’s most serious issues — the growing gap between energy supply and energy demand. Left unheeded, it will deepen gathering doubts about India’s dream to become a superpower. A growing economy, ballooning population and burgeoning urbanization are driving energy demands ever upward, while India’s investment in power transmission and distribution has not kept up.

#électricité #inde #chine et ça a à voir avec le #nucléaire aussi (même si l’émission n’en parle pas)

Du gaz iranien pour la Jordanie ? Pouah ! Ce serait bien mieux avec du gaz israélien ! Géopolitique du gaz au Moyen-Orient.
Jordan’s energy crisis | Jordan Times
http://www.jordantimes.com/index.php?news=43843

While Iran has offered to supply Jordan with gas to make up for lost Egyptian imports, this option would increase the Iranian influence in the region and pose strategic risks to Jordan. Creating a Jordanian dependence on Iran for gas would increase Tehran’s ability to pressure Amman on issues related to regional security. This would erode Jordanian sovereignty and introduce a new strategic vulnerability into the region.

Developing strategic dependence on Iran would also complicate the US-Jordan relations and might invoke calls in the US to reexamine the economic aid and military assistance to Jordan.

Jordan’s energy sector strategy has concentrated mainly on the diversification of the sources that supply energy. The recent discovery of natural gas in the Eastern Mediterranean would enable Israel, in an atmosphere of peace in the region, with the opportunity to export gas to Jordan and boost bilateral economic relations. Such exports would ignite large-scale economic projects which are highly feasible, like fertilisers, methanol and electricity generation plants. These projects would add force to the Jordanian economy and help solve many chronic structural economic problems in Jordan, enhancing and deepening stable regional relationships.

Moreover, building a large electricity generation plant with long-term purchase power agreements with both the Israelis and the Palestinians would make the Kingdom a net electricity exporter.

The construction of an Israel-Jordan pipeline would be far less expensive, and faster, than one to Europe, for example, which could be an option for Israel. This, in turn, will enable negotiating the price Jordan pays for gas.

Indécrottable.

Areva sees no ‘nuclear winter’ after Fukushima | Investing | Financial Post
http://business.financialpost.com/2011/06/14/areva-sees-no-nuclear-winter-after-fukushima

Areva sees no ‘nuclear winter’ after Fukushima

Reuters/Issei Kato Jun 14, 2011 – 3:33 PM ET | Last Updated: Jun 14, 2011 3:44 PM ET

PARIS – The outlook for the global nuclear industry remains strong despite the emotion and doubts spurred by the Fukushima catastrophe in Japan, the head of French nuclear group Areva said on Tuesday.

“Will there be a new nuclear winter like there was after Three Mile Island and Chernobyl?,” Areva Chief Executive Anne Lauvergeon asked at a parliamentary hearing, referring to the U.S. accident in 1979 and the 1986 meltdown in the Ukraine.

“I don’t see this (a nuclear winter) happening,” said Lauvergeon, adding that high oil prices, the need to produce cleaner energy, and surging energy demand from emerging countries meant nuclear would remain in the world’s energy mix.

Earth Day Enemies: Greenpeace Slams Apple, Facebook, Google Data Centers
http://mashable.com/2011/04/22/cloud-computing-dirty-energy

Environmental activist organization Greenpeace emphasized the environmental effects of cloud computing this Earth Day, releasing a report that assigns grades to 10 prominent technology companies based on how they power data centers.

According to the report, computer servers in data centers account for about 2% of global energy demand and are growing their energy consumption at a rate of about 12% per year. About half of the companies studied, which include Google, Facebook and Apple, used coal to meet 50% to 80% of their energy needs instead of renewable energy resources like wind and solar.

#ecolo