e-World in Essen, Germany:Energy and Water with 2020 in Sight
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Energy and Water
In Focus:
• Decade of Sustainable Energy for All (2014-2024)
Through Resolution 67/215, the United Nations General Assembly declared the decade 2014-2024 as the Decade of Sustainable Energy for All. The Decade underscores the importance of energy issues for sustainable development and for the elaboration of the post-2015 development agenda. It highlights the importance of improving energy efficiency, increasing the share of renewable energy and cleaner and energy-efficient technologies. Enhancing the efficiency of the energy models would reduce the stress on water.
Where are we now, seven years into the Decade for all? Are the goals in reach? Have they been achieved? Should we revise the documents and adapt to the changes?
In Focus:
• Decade of Sustainable Energy for All (2014-2024)
Through Resolution 67/215, the United Nations General Assembly declared the decade 2014-2024 as the Decade of Sustainable Energy for All. The Decade underscores the importance of energy issues for sustainable development and for the elaboration of the post-2015 development agenda. It highlights the importance of improving energy efficiency, increasing the share of renewable energy and cleaner and energy-efficient technologies. Enhancing the efficiency of the energy models would reduce the stress on water.
Where are we now, seven years into the Decade for all? Are the goals in reach? Have they been achieved? Should we revise the documents and adapt to the changes?
Did you know?
- 2.5 billion people have unreliable or no access to electricity
- As a general trend, energy and electricity consumption are likely to increase over the next 25 years in all world regions, with the majority of this increase occurring in non-OECD countries.
- By 2035, energy consumption will increase by 50% which will increase the energy sector's water consumption by 85%
- Today 15% of global water withdrawals are for energy production
- Hydropower supplies about 20% of the world’s electricity, a share that has remained stable since the 1990s.
- Energy requirements for surface water pumping are generally 30% lower than for groundwater pumping. It can be expected that groundwater will become increasingly energy intensive as water tables fall in several regions.
- Globally, irrigation water allocated to biofuel production is estimated at 44 km3, or 2% of all irrigation water. Under current production conditions it takes an average of roughly 2,500 litres of water (about 820 litres of it irrigation water) to produce 1 litre of liquid biofuel (the same amount needed on average to produce food for one person for one day).
Sources: United Nations World Water Development Report 4. Volume 1: Managing Water under Uncertainty and Risk. WWAP, 2012
United Nations World Water Development Report 3. Water in a Changing World. WWAP, 2009.
World Bank’s Thirsty Energy initiative, 2014
United Nations World Water Development Report 3. Water in a Changing World. WWAP, 2009.
World Bank’s Thirsty Energy initiative, 2014
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