Long-term Energy Strategy
Summary
This Strategy sets the country's energy vision over the medium and long term, emphasising environmental sustainability as a key aspect. The Strategy notably calls for energy security, encourage energy efficiency through legal, administrative, communication and sectoral actions, improve demand side management, encourage the uptake of sustainable buildings, and foster the production and use of renewable resources, including bagasse, solar, wind and hydro. Technology transfer is encouraged. An energy strategy for the transport sector is further laid out to promote the use of buses and promote low emission vehicles and fuels. Financial incentives, including carbon financing, are discussed.
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About this policy
Year
2009
Most recent update
01/10/2009
Geography
Response areas
Mitigation
Sectors
Buildings, Energy, Transport
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Risk
Impacted group
Just transition
Renewable energy
Fossil fuel
Greenhouse gas
Economic sector
Adaptation/resilience
Finance
Targets  4
10% of energy efficiency gains in the electric sector by 2025 (2% by 2010, 4% by 2015, 6% by 2020) by 2010, 2015, 2020 against a 2009 baseline
Energy, Target year: 2020Reduce energy consumption of public sector to half the current level by the year 2015 and to pursue efforts up to 2025 by 2015 against a 2009 baseline
Energy, Target year: 201535% of renewable energy by 2035
Energy, Target year: 2035Note

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