Abstract: . . .  Although energy isn’t mentioned derectly as a MDG, BIOENERGY services can play a variety of direct and indirect roles in helping to achieve the MDGs (by 2015…): VTo halve extreme poverty VTo reduce hunger and improve access to safe drinking water VTo reduce child and maternal . . .
. . .  development; 2. Equity, in terms of equal opportunities; 3. Sustainability, focusing on the access to opportunities for present and future generations; 4. Empowerment, with regard to the requirement of full participation of people in the decision making process. Page . . .
. . .  development in SOPAC countries: countries: SPREP/UNESCAP Strategic Environmental Planning and Strategic Environmental Management Mechanisms for developing National Sustainable Development Strategies which have to be in place by 2005. (Vision, Strategy, Action Plan, Monitoring) . . .
. . .  Page 13 13 Bioenergy: Contribution to Bioenergy: Contribution to Sustainable Development Sustainable Development Strategies Strategies Biomass can provide locally produced energy sources to: • pump water for drinking and irrigation; • light homes, schools and health clinics; . . .
. . .  the Bioenergy and the Millennium Development Millennium Development Goals Goals Although energy isn’t mentioned derectly as a MDG, BIOENERGY services can play a variety of direct and indirect roles in helping to achieve the MDGs (by 2015…): VTo halve extreme poverty VTo . . .
. . .  Although energy isn’t mentioned derectly as a MDG, BIOENERGY services can play a variety of direct and indirect roles in helping to achieve the MDGs (by 2015…): VTo halve extreme poverty VTo reduce hunger and improve access to safe drinking water VTo reduce child and maternal . . .
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