“Cooking with fossil fuel is risky and expensive to poor consumers, using up to a third of their income,” he said. Almost half of Brazil’s energy now comes from renewable sources, he added. That was the central message a Brazilian delegate gave to COP 17, along with concrete examples from his country which by example could benefit the millions of Africans who face daily life without reliable, cheap power.Ĭarlos Cavalcanti of the Federation of Industries of the state of São Paulo, spoke at the Energy in Africa discussion, adding that the new energy sources were renewable, such as hydro power. That means those people have no choice to resort to far costlier fuels, which can also be more dangerous.
Cutting the price of energy is one way to fight poverty, the delegates at the climate change conference, or COP 17, heard in Durban.Īround 1.5 billion people around the world do not have electricity because they are not connected to a power grid.
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