Looking ahead: energy, climate change and pro-poor responses.

The article offers information regarding the current global trends in energy supply and consumption. It discusses two central energy challenges faced currently including securing the supply of reliable and affordable energy, and effecting a rapid transformation to a low-carbon, efficient and environmentally benign system of energy supply. It mentions that decisive action is needed to expand energy access and to arrest the potential impacts of climate change in poor countries. It reports that due to the absence of new policies, global trends in energy supply and consumption are unsustainable. It also presents the use of fuelwood, charcoal, agricultural waste and animal dung by the people to meet most of the daily energy needs for cooking and heating.