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UIMP Summer Course Energy and
Democratic Leadership Promoting Access to
Energy for Poverty Reduction
Santander, August 20-21, 2007
Promoting Access to Energy Lessons Learnt
Session V Are there lessons for democratic
leaders?
Marianne Haug Chairman of the Board, Forum fur
Zukunftsenergien
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• Democratic leadership is crucial.
• . but WHERE and HOW ?

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Four Options of Engagement

• Reaching the poor access for all
• Politics and revenue management in hydrocarbon
  rich countries
• Energy market reforms and regulations
• Clean energy, environment and climate change

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Reaching the Poor

• International Leadership
• MDG talking and walking the vision,
  declarations, funding, business engagement
• National Leadership
• sine qua non but tailor made example
  Mauritius regulations gender policies
  public/private urban/rural - service
  providers choice of technologies, financing
  schemes and ability to pay
• Local Leadership
• Community demand, support, ownership

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Politics and Revenue Management in hydrocarbon
rich Countries

• International democratic leadership
• a) oil as political power tool, as an
  opportunity for corruption but also for positive
  integration
• b) transparency governments, business, NGOs
• National democratic Leadership
• transparency, fiscal and macroeconomic
  management, poverty reduction and capacity
  building strategies are a must
• Local democratic Leadership
• stakeholder involvement, benefiting all affected
  communities

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Energy Market Reforms and Regulation

• on national, regional and local levels
• liberalization of energy markets and
  privatization has been the focus of the past
  decades. Country and sector specific,
  transparent, reliable regulations and committed,
  engaged local and national democratic leadership
  determine results.
• on the international level
• How sustainable is the present oil cartel
  approach?

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Clean Energy, Environment and Climate Change

• the ultimate democratic leadership and public
  policy issue
• creating markets for cleaner and healthier, but
  more expensive technologies, and in addition
• mitigating climate change by creating markets
  for a global public good that affects many but
  not all

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• Thank you
• mhaug_at_uni-hohenheim.de