Clean Energy and Sustainable Development.

This article discusses the relation of clean energy and sustainable development. There has been an international consensus that energy is essential to achieving the economic, social and environmental pillars of sustainable development. But experience has shown that the kind of energy and the way it is used are important determinants of the degree of sustainability achieved. And continuing along the current path of energy development is not only incompatible with sustainable development objectives but also means that the world's vulnerability to supply disruptions will increase as international trade and competition expand.