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The Permanent Forum recommends that States, the World Bank and other multilateral and bilateral financial institutions consider alternative systems beyond the perpetuation of highly centralized fossil fuel-based energy supplies and large-scale bioenergy and hydropower dams and increase their support for renewable, low-carbon and decentralized systems, taking into account the recommendations of the World Commission on Dams. States should abandon old centralized electricity grids, which are not suitable for the challenges of climate change.
Responses
ADB reports on several initiatives to promote the use of alternative energy systems and renewable energy.
The Government of Colombia reports on two projects under the Clean Development Mechanism that have to do with indigenous communities, one of which is on wind energy. The report also mentions seven projects on climate change adaptation that address indigenous peoples and their livelihoods.
Final Report of UNPFII Session 7 (2008)
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