The Brasilia Declaration

摘要

The United Nations estimates that almost 2.5 billion people―one third of the world's population―lack access to modern energy services. In Brazil alone, almost 20 million people have no electricity in their households. At the Millennium Summit (New York, 2000), United Nations countries agreed that urgent measures should be adopted before 2015 to cut this figure in half, and in so doing, reduce both the poverty in which many of the world's inhabitants live today and growing environmental pollution caused by the indiscriminate use of fossil fuels. On Oct. 29-30, 2003, the "Regional Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean on Renewable Energy" took place in the Brazilian capital, Brasilia. This international conference was proposed by the German government during the World Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg, 2002), where energy was one of the main topics.