Oando Energy Resources has urged governments to create the enabling environment for the development of the infrastructure required to drive renewable energy in the country.
The Head, Operations Integrity, OER, Mr. Kayode Boladale, who stated this, also stressed the need to develop legislative and regulatory frameworks to drive renewable energy use.
Boladale, while speaking at the LiveWell Initiative 2015 Annual Multi-sectoral Grand Health Bazaar in Lagos, stated that the use of renewable energy would help alleviate poverty, especially as it could enhance technological capacity and economic development of developing countries.
According to him, environmentally sound technology may also prevent people in developing countries from destroying the basis of their life-support through over-exploitation of natural resources.
Renewable energy would provide an enormous opportunity to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions, pursue economic growth and enhance energy security, thereby advancing sustainable development, he said.
Boladale said, “It is necessary to develop a communication and awareness action plan to raise awareness on the benefits of using renewable energy and energy efficiency against other forms.
“Therefore, governments have a duty to create the enabling environment through a government-private sector collaboration in developing the infrastructure required to drive renewable energy.
“Renewable energy and energy efficiency are widely recognised as the most promising alternatives for reducing fossil energy consumption, mitigating climate change, and advancing the goal of energy sustainability,” he said.
According to Boladale, renewable energy propels a green economy revolution and captures interrelationship between the environment, the economy and human wellbeing to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
He said, “It reduces drastically the consumption of resources like coal, fossil fuel and others that have many harmful environmental effects: devastating lands, causing air and water pollution that are toxic to human health and the environment.
Source: punch
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