Wow, this is inspiring! It's a National Geographic article addressing a major but rarely talked-about sustainable development issue: energy poverty. Innovative ideas for solutions will be discussed at this week's UN Summit, and it looks like the US may substantially contribute. Given the Bush administrator's dismal environmental track-record, this could be a step in the right direction, both in terms of supporting sustainable development and in terms of working to undo the damage done by decades of hard-line "economy first, environment second" US policies.
It'll be interesting to see what actually happens and if this improves Global North-South relations or turns out to be merely a publicity stunt on the behalf of the North.
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