ABSTRACT

This chapter focuses on energy related environmental issues in the developing countries. It explores the development related energy needs of the Third World and their financial implications, the potential for better energy management, barriers to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and financial mechanisms and policies that can improve the performance of developing countries in this respect. The experience of the industrialized countries emphasizes that a reliable supply of energy is a vital prerequisite for economic growth and development. The foregoing discussion has helped to establish a rational and equitable basis for addressing the problems of energy-environmental impact mitigation. Energy-environmental interactions tend to cut across all levels and need to be incorporated into the analysis. The developed and the developing countries are at different points in resolving domestic energy-environmental interactions and this is an important difference which must be taken into account when devising forms of cooperation for solving transnational and global energy-environment problems.