The Road Towards An Energy-Efficient Future - Report to the Ministerial Conference "Environment for Europe" Kiev, Ukraine, May 21-23 2003
Article from: OGEL 5 (2004), in The Energy Charter Treaty
Introduction
For the first time in the Environment for Europe process, Ministers focused on energy efficiency at their 1998 Aarhus Conference. The declaration from the conference pointed to the link between improved energy efficiency and environmental concerns at the global, regional and national levels. Ministers were specific in the Aarhus Declaration: "We remain convinced that increased energy efficiency will be a major tool for fulfilling our commitments in the Kyoto Protocol." Now that the Kyoto Protocol is soon to be implemented, the role of energy efficiency has taken on added ...