最权威的国际能源报告之一，新鲜出炉

【名称】：UNEP: Global Trends in Sustainable Energy Investment 2009
【出版时间】：may 2009
【来源】：UNEP
【报告页数】：64
【文件格式】：PDF
【报告大小】：6.4M
【内容简介】：
The 2009 Global Trends in Sustainable Energy Investment report, considered by many to be the most
authoritative appraisal of clean energy investment trends, is being released during one of the worst
financial and economic crises for a generation with sharply rising unemployment in many parts of
the globe.
It also comes less than six months before the crucial UN climate convention meeting taking place in
Copenhagen, Denmark.
It is the view of the UN Environment Programme and increasingly others that a Green Economy
approach to these and other emerging challenges, such as energy security, resource efficiency and
catalyzing an innovation-based economy, go hand in hand.
Renewable energy, with its low carbon footprint, the relative speed with which it can be deployed into
developed and developing communities alike and its ability to generate new kinds of businesses and
green jobs, is a key element of that transition.
This year’s Global Trends survey was never likely to show the kind of extraordinary growth in
renewables that has underlined previous years. Nevertheless, investment in the sustainable energy
market has in some ways defied the global recession growing by around five per cent—from $148
billion in 2007 to around $155 billion in 2008.
Support for sustainable energy investments will now depend on several factors. In response to the
economic crisis the G-20 group of nations recently announced stimulus packages totalling $3 trillion or
4.5 per cent of their GDP.
Several economies, from China, Japan and many European ones to the Republic of Korea and the United
States, have earmarked multi-billion investments in clean energy, including smart grids, under the banner
of a global ‘green new deal’.
While the $155 billion sustainable energy investment in 2008 and the multi-billion stimulus packages can
go a long way, investment needs to reach a half trillion dollars per annum by 2020 to help ensure a peak
in greenhouse gas emissions by then.
Intelligent market mechanisms and incentives will also play a key role in both developed and developing
economies, including a review of the well over $200 billion a year spent on subsidising fossil fuels.
Perhaps the biggest stimulus package of them all will happen in Copenhagen if governments agree a
scientifically-credible and forward-looking new climate agreement.
This will give certainty and continuity to the carbon markets and a clear signal that renewable energy will
become an increasingly important slice of the overall ‘fuel’ mix and a major contributor to the sustainable
development agenda, including achieving the poverty-related UN Millennium Development Goals.