Mountain Energy
The concept of green economy has been raising hope to different stakeholders to address economic environmental and social crises facing currently the global community. It is one of the two thematic focuses at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development to be held in 2012, 20 years after the Rio Earth Summit. This concept is particularly important for mountain regions, particularly...
The World Energy Assessment notes that the dispersed character of rural populations and their low commercial energy consumption result in poor capacity utilisation efficiency for transmission and distribution systems and other energy infrastructure (UNDP, 2000). As mountains cover 20% of the land surface and are home to only 10% of the human population (those living above 4000 m elevation) (...
Nepal is a small mountainous and landlocked country. Poverty is the key phenomenon which is more severe in rural areas where 86% population reside. Inaccessibility, fragility, marginality and diversity are the mountain specificities which pose challenges for any development. Despite the planned development efforts of more than 50 years, today only about 40% of the total population of 23,214,...
