Latin America and the Caribbean using renewable energy to generate 70 percent of its electricity
Release Date: 20/03/2011
Source: EFE
Country / Region : Latin America and the Caribbean
Latin America and the Caribbean using renewable energy to generate 70 percent of its electricity, which reaffirms its position as one of the regions that produce and use renewable energy resources, U.S. experts said today
"The rest of the world where we have come to us or one hundred years," noted Arnaldo Vieira de Carvalho, a specialist in the division of energy, infrastructure and environment of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
He was one of the exhibitors at the conference "Reducing the carbon footprint in the Americas: Challenges and Opportunities", organized by the Center for Hemispheric Policy at the University of Miami.
Brazil and Costa Rica are at the forefront of countries with the production of renewable energy higher, as Vieira de Carvalho.
"even reach up to three times the world average," Efe said.
The expert from Brazil, said his country and Colombia are at the forefront in the production ethanol.
Latin American giant is used to supply 50 percent of gasoline consumed by your vehicle fleet.
IDB loans granted to the region by an average of 9,000 million dollars during the last decade and the countries that have benefited are Brazil, Mexico and Argentina, according to the official.
In 2011 the multilateral funding agency will give priority to loans for small nations in South America, the Caribbean and Central America, he said.
"The only obligation to have with us is to work on two levels: generation of renewable energy and climate change. These loans are long term-more than 30 years and have more freedom to work ", said Vieira de Carvalho.
For its part, Odon de Buen Rodriguez, president of the Mexican Energy, Technology and Education (Ente), stated that one of the problems in the region is that "the concern is not general when it comes to reducing carbon emissions."
highlighted the efforts that countries like Chile and Colombia advance in this area but in his opinion other nations need to pay attention to the problem.
Mexican The expert explained that the rise in oil prices generated a strong impact and to the extent that this is reflected in the price of gas or electricity politicians will be forced to seek new alternatives that benefit their economies.
Good Rodriguez added that another challenge facing the region is to implement efficient and less polluting transport and cited the cases of Paraguay and Bolivia, where governments try to delete the old vehicle fleet, those who are less efficient and more polluting.
in Mexico said that 75 percent of electricity generation from fossil fuel use, but stated that his country makes an effort "relatively important" for some projects to promote renewable energy.
"Today there are new wind energy facilities in the area of \u200b\u200bLa Ventosa, Oaxaca, which produces 700 megawatts at present and with expectations of reaching the 2,000 megawatts in a short time," the president Ente.
Marc Le Page, special advisor for energy and climate change in the Canadian embassy in Washington, recalled that the United States and China are the countries that produce emissions of greenhouse gases in the world.
indicated that between the two countries emit 42 percent of world production of these gases.
Europe, with 17 percent, is the third region with more emissions, followed by Japan and India each with four percent, Canada with two percent and Australia with one percent. EFE
Release Date: 20/03/2011
Source: EFE
Country / Region : Latin America and the Caribbean
Latin America and the Caribbean using renewable energy to generate 70 percent of its electricity, which reaffirms its position as one of the regions that produce and use renewable energy resources, U.S. experts said today
"The rest of the world where we have come to us or one hundred years," noted Arnaldo Vieira de Carvalho, a specialist in the division of energy, infrastructure and environment of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
He was one of the exhibitors at the conference "Reducing the carbon footprint in the Americas: Challenges and Opportunities", organized by the Center for Hemispheric Policy at the University of Miami.
Brazil and Costa Rica are at the forefront of countries with the production of renewable energy higher, as Vieira de Carvalho.
"even reach up to three times the world average," Efe said.
The expert from Brazil, said his country and Colombia are at the forefront in the production ethanol.
Latin American giant is used to supply 50 percent of gasoline consumed by your vehicle fleet.
IDB loans granted to the region by an average of 9,000 million dollars during the last decade and the countries that have benefited are Brazil, Mexico and Argentina, according to the official.
In 2011 the multilateral funding agency will give priority to loans for small nations in South America, the Caribbean and Central America, he said.
"The only obligation to have with us is to work on two levels: generation of renewable energy and climate change. These loans are long term-more than 30 years and have more freedom to work ", said Vieira de Carvalho.
For its part, Odon de Buen Rodriguez, president of the Mexican Energy, Technology and Education (Ente), stated that one of the problems in the region is that "the concern is not general when it comes to reducing carbon emissions."
highlighted the efforts that countries like Chile and Colombia advance in this area but in his opinion other nations need to pay attention to the problem.
Mexican The expert explained that the rise in oil prices generated a strong impact and to the extent that this is reflected in the price of gas or electricity politicians will be forced to seek new alternatives that benefit their economies.
Good Rodriguez added that another challenge facing the region is to implement efficient and less polluting transport and cited the cases of Paraguay and Bolivia, where governments try to delete the old vehicle fleet, those who are less efficient and more polluting.
in Mexico said that 75 percent of electricity generation from fossil fuel use, but stated that his country makes an effort "relatively important" for some projects to promote renewable energy.
"Today there are new wind energy facilities in the area of \u200b\u200bLa Ventosa, Oaxaca, which produces 700 megawatts at present and with expectations of reaching the 2,000 megawatts in a short time," the president Ente.
Marc Le Page, special advisor for energy and climate change in the Canadian embassy in Washington, recalled that the United States and China are the countries that produce emissions of greenhouse gases in the world.
indicated that between the two countries emit 42 percent of world production of these gases.
Europe, with 17 percent, is the third region with more emissions, followed by Japan and India each with four percent, Canada with two percent and Australia with one percent. EFE
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