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Climate Change Affects the Poorest: Calderón
 Suzanne Stephens Waller - Presidencia de la República
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September 29, 2010
| | The event was organized by the Energy Secretariat (SENER), the World Bank (WB), and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), with the support of the Foreign Affairs Secretariat (SRE) and the World Economic Forum. | |
Mexico City - At the Energy Efficiency and Access Forum, President Felipe Calderón declared that climate change and global warming affect the poorest people.
During this event, held on 28 and 29 September in Mexico City to share experiences in best practices in implementing public policies and technology use for energy efficiency and universal access to energy services, the President declared that energy saving is not only necessary but also profitable.
This forum forms part of the activities in the energy sector leading up to the 16th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP16) to follow up the commitment of President Felipe Calderón’s government to implement the recommendations of the UN Secretary General’s Advisory Group on Energy and Climate Change and various decisions to achieve a sustainable energy future that will guarantee universal access to energy services and reduce world energy consumption.
Participants in the Energy Efficiency and Access Forum include energy ministers from the continent; two Nobel laureates: Mario Molina and Rajendra Pachauri; two directors of international organizations: Kandeh Yumkella, Director-General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and president of the advisory group to the UN Secretary General on Energy and Climate Change and Carlos Florez, Executive Secretary of the Latin American Energy Organization; Mulyani Indrawati, Managing Director of the World Bank; Pamela Cox, Vicepresident of the World Bank; and Santiago Levy and Steven Puig, Vicepresidents of the Inter-American Development Bank.
The event was organized by the Energy Secretariat (SENER), the World Bank (WB), and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), with the support of the Foreign Affairs Secretariat (SRE) and the World Economic Forum.
Ministers and civil servants responsible for energy efficiency, experts in specialized institutions, top-level representatives from the private sector, development banks, academia and international organizations will focus their discussions on three main areas: norms and standardization; training and dissemination of information to the population and successful programs documented in Mexico and other countries. |
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