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Interview: Philippe Joubert, Executive Chairman, Global Electricity Initiative (GEI)
The WEC is taking a leading role in a partnership with GSEP and WBCSD under the Global Electricity Initiative (GEI). GEI will identify and promote best practice amongst electrical utilities. Philippe Joubert, GEI Executive Chairman, tells us more. What does the Global Electricity Initiative aim to do? We want to showcase what electrical utilities [...]
Posted on 15 December 2012
Policies will make or break the sustainability of our energy systems
Time to get real – energy industry calls for governments to create interconnected policies [DOHA] – 3 December 2012 – Senior energy industry executives have urged governments to establish coherent and joined-up policies to help achieve sustainable energy systems, says a report published today by the World Energy Council (WEC). According to the WEC’s 2012 [...]
Posted on 3 December 2012
Global Electricity Initiative: WEC, WBCSD, and GSEP combine strengths to advance energy access and climate goals
Doha, December 3, 2012 – Three of the world’s largest energy and sustainability networks have joined forces within the Global Electricity Initiative (GEI) to support electrical utilities’ efforts to tackle climate change and improve energy access. The World Energy Council (WEC), the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), and the Global Sustainable Electricity Partnership [...]
Posted on 3 December 2012
What makes for good energy policy?
Joan MacNaughton, Executive Chair of the WEC’s newly released World Energy Trilemma report, tells us its key findings, and why every government should heed its advice. Tell us about the World Energy Trilemma report. The report measures the sustainability of countries’ energy policies on three dimensions – energy security, environmental mitigation and social equity [...]
Posted on 3 December 2012
The world is far away from achieving environmentally sustainable energy systems
WEC’s Energy Sustainability Index highlights top-performing countries, with policies crucial to performance. The World Energy Council’s (WEC) global ranking of country energy sustainability performance has revealed that most of the over 90 countries assessed are still far from achieving fully sustainable energy systems. The 2012 Energy Sustainability Index, published within the WEC’s 2012 World Energy [...]
Posted on 1 December 2012