Inter-American
Meeting of National Authorities and Experts on Energy for Sustainable
Development in the Americas.
On March 3, 2008 at the
OAS headquarters, located on 17th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW in
Washington, D.C.,
authorities and experts on Energy met to explore Challenges to energy for
sustainable development
The objective of the
meeting was to deepen the knowledge and exchange of ideas among relevant
energy sector stakeholders in the Americas in order to improve the
sustainability of the sector. At the meeting, energy experts presented on
the various themes of sustainable energy highlighted by the Declaration of
Panama.
This meeting was one of
the commitments of the Declaration of Panama: Energy for Sustainable
Development, adopted by the thirty-four OAS member States during the 37th
regular session of the General Assembly held in Panama City last year.
This meeting of experts
on energy for sustainable development took place one day prior to the
opening of the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC
2008). The WIREC conference is the third global ministerial-level
conference on renewable energy, following events in Beijing in 2005 and
Bonn in 2004. (For more information, or to register for WIREC see
http://www.wirec2008.org.)
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