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Growing OpportunityDeeper Dive: Energy‘Our biggest challenges?First, managing the qualityof our programs whilescaling them. Second, hiringprivate sector talent ona not-for-profit budget.’Environment Sector81These figures are taken from theInternational Energy Outlook 2006,prepared by the US Energy InformationAdministration.www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/ieo/world.htmlOverall, it is clear that even leadingcompanies — and BP is a leader despiteits recent catastrophic slip-ups — stillhave a long way to go in addressing thesort of issues that are second nature formost leading social and environmentalentrepreneurs. To achieve anything likethe 3.0 version of the business case forsustainable development in the energysector, such companies would need toaddress three key areas that are centralto the work of such entrepreneurs:— AccessFor many social entrepreneurs, the issueof access to energy is crucial. Billionsof people still lack access to reliablesupplies of affordable, clean, andsustainable energy. And this is also anissue for mainstream businesses. Togrow, markets need energy: no energy,no growth. Figure 5.1 underscores thepredicted significant continued growthin energy demand worldwide, 81 with non-OECD demand overtaking OECD demandwithin the next decade (Figure 5.2), evengiven the uncoupling of energy demandfrom GNP growth (Figure 5.4).38The current consensus is that markets forproducts designed with energy efficiency,renewable energy and/or clean energyin mind are set to explode, but theprojections in Figure 5.3 suggest thatrenewables will still meet a relativelysmall proportion of world marketedenergy demand in 2030. In themeantime, while renewable businessesand other cleantech ventures scale up,there will be a continuing, growingdemand for affordable, clean fossil fuels.— SecurityWith continuing uncertainty around thefuture of a number of key oil producingregions, energy security considerationsare very much in the ascendant. Amongother things, this has been a criticalfactor driving the growing interest inbiofuels and other forms of cleantech.The access-to-energy agenda is closelylinked. At the extreme, picture an oilcompany operating in West Africa, thecomplex’s lights blazing in the nightwhile all around there is a world in whichreliable, affordable electricity remains adistant dream. This could be a metaphorfor the developed world sailing on in an‘ocean’ of energy-poverty, a reality thatraises many longer term security issues.Figure 5.4World marketed energy:consumption in three economic scenarios1980–2030Quadrillion BTUsHistory Projection1000Figure 5.5Growth in energy use andGDP in non-OECD countries1980–2030Index: 1980 = 1History Projection20900High growth18800Reference16700Low growth1460012GDP500104008Energy use30062004100219801990200020032010202020301980199020002003201020202030
Growing OpportunityDeeper Dive: Energy‘We have tracked more than$10.6 billion invested incleantech ventures since1999 in North Americaand $2.6 billion investedin Europe since 2003.’Cleantech Venture Network82earthobservatory.nasa.gov/naturalhazards/shownh.php3?img_id=1333383Richard McGregor, ‘China set tomiss target for energy efficiency’,Financial Times, 17 February, 2007.84www.ideaas.org.br/id_equipe_eng.htm85http://shop.easybeinggreen.com.au/categories.asp?cID=71&fromhome=true86www.wasteconcern.org— Climate and environmentThe skies over China have darkened inthe past five decades, thanks to a ninefoldincrease in fossil-fuel emissions. 82Around 80% of China's electricity comesfrom coal, and there are plans for wellover 500 new coal-fired power stationsto meet an apparently insatiable demandfor energy. The country is expected toovertake the US in terms of greenhousegas emissions in 2009, yet the surge ofinvestment in heavy industry is underminingChina’s ability to achieve itsenergy efficiency targets. 83 Even withoutgrowing concerns about the implicationsof energy consumption trends for thestability of our climate, the likelyincrease in many forms of pollutionlinked to energy in the emergingeconomies can only increase the squeezeon energy producers worldwide.Once seen as a softer set of drivers,environmental factors are now seen tobe of crucial importance.The cleantech surge39Given the sheer scale of the challengeswe face in the energy realm, it is importantto maintain a sense of relative scale whenthinking about the potential contributionsof social and environmental entrepreneurs.The sort of social and environmentalentrepreneurs who are pioneering newapproaches include Fabio Rosa of IDEAAS, 84Brazil, Nic Frances of Easy Being Green, 85Australia, and Maqsood Sinha and IftekharEnayetullah of Waste Concern, 86Bangladesh. But however successful suchpeople may be in scaling up what they do,and however much they may now deserveto be properly funded, we should note thatthey have a very long way to go in orderto make a significant impression ontomorrow’s energy challenges. Still, asIDEAAS and Waste Concern demonstrate,the best among them are having majorimpacts at the national or regional level,and there are ambitions to go internationalin some cases, as with Easy Being Green.Figure 5.6ChallengesAccessRising pricesLimited infrastructureIneffective government regulationSecurityGeopolitical considerationsGrowing divide between rich and poor‘Resource curse’EnvironmentClimate changeUnbanizationPopulation growth
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