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World’s energy ministers appeal to G8 for urgent action to end energy shortages

Energy ministers from across the world have appealed to the world’s richest nations to take urgent action to bring electricity to the poorest countries and ensure energy stability throughout the world with the spread of advanced energy technologies.

Address of the Ministerial Conference “Energy in a changing world” to the participants of the G8 summit in Heiligendamm

On 31 May and 1 June 2007, participants in the Ministerial Conference “Energy in a Changing World” which took place at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, discussed global energy development issues

Viktor Khristenko: "We are convinced that energy development is a global process"

Viktor Khristenko discussed current issues of bilateral cooperation in the energy sector with the European Energy Commissioner, Andris Piebalgs, and India’s Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Murli Deora

Khristenko calls for G8 action on energy

Speaking in Paris at the Ministerial conference on energy, co-hosted by UNESCO and the Russian Ministry of Energy, Russian Minister of Industry and Energy of Russia Viktor Khristenko said today that more should be done to encourage the development of an international dialogue on energy, especially on the humanitarian role energy can play in the developing world

The President of the Russian Federation to the participants in the international conference “Energy in the Changing World”

I welcome the participants and guests to the conference “Energy in the Changing World.” Your meeting is devoted to one of the most topical issues of modern global development. Today, uninterrupted energy supply goes a long way to determine the stability and progress of national economies. Hence of the level of well-being of millions of people on the planet, and the possibility to implement large-scale social and humanitarian programs. That was precisely why Russia chose energy security as a priority of its G8 presidency

People come first

‘UNESCO is a unique platform for the global discussion of any issues,’ says Vladimir Kalamanov, Russia’s Permanent Delegate to UNESCO

Sun, Wind and Water

In spite of being richly endowed with traditional sources of energy, Russia is planning to develop renewable and alternative sources, said Sergei Mikhailov, deputy director of the Fuel and Energy Complex Department at the Russian Ministry of Industry and Energy.

Cooperation with UNESCO – a Matter of Principle

Addressing the 62nd session of the UNECE in Geneva, Viktor Khristenko said that 2006 had shown the effectiveness of multilateral dialogue in the energy sphere: ‘Even though the growth in the number of communication platforms for discussing energy issues in terms of geographical or sectoral principles has sometimes met with a mixed reaction, we consider the appearance of new platforms for discussion a positive phenomenon.’

From Saint-Petersburg to Heiligendamm via Paris

The Russian Ministry of Industry and Energy is co-sponsoring with UNESCO a ministerial conference “Energy in the Changing World.” The Conference will be held at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris on 31 May – 1 June, 2007