Coping with climate change in the Pacific island region : final report energy component

The energy component design of CCCPIR has benefited from various excellent and frank assessments of what has been going right as well as wrong in the energy sector in this region, what should be done in terms of future guiding principles, and the need for changing framework conditions to overcome barriers1 . The energy component will focus on three key areas towards a sustainable, socially fair, inclusive and climate change relevant indigenous based future energy management for sustainable economic development. The first key area outputs will appraise the annual incremental and aggregated incremental costs to achieve very ambitious or even unrealistic benchmarks of national energy policy plans for the year 2010 - 2020 and beyond. Who is paying and who can afford to pay? Jointly working on the answers with as many stakeholders as possible should increase awareness that the present fragmented donor driven and project oriented piecemeal approach becomes too unsustainable and costly for the PICs and donors.