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Sri Lanka has increased its carbon-dioxide emission levels by 230 percent which is the highest increase in the world in 2007. It is mainly due to the increase in the usage of reconditioned vehicles and coal power energy usage, Director, Sustainable Energy Authority, Asoka Abeygunawardana said.
“The international climate catastrophe negotiations are gaining momentum currently to strike a balance between the developed and developing world regarding the reduction of Carbon-dioxide emission. The developing world is insisting that the developed world commit and take action to reduce their emission levels to 80 percent against 1990 level by 2050. The developed world on the other hand wants the developing world to commit and take action to reduce their carbon-dioxide emission levels by 30 percent by 2050 to get the global average of 50 percent. It will limit the global warming to two Celsius,” he said. “The solution to this crisis in Sri Lanka is to establish correspondence with renewable energy infrastructure. The Government has offered a cost reflective renewable energy power purchasing tariff for the private sector to build renewable energy infrastructure facilities,” Abeygunawardana said. “Community involvement is essential to establish the infrastructure to tap this renewable energy potential scattered islandwide by tapping the potential in their own surroundings. The Government has taken the initiative to get the support of electricity consumers to produce energy by introducing the net-metering scheme in addition to the already existing Renewable Energy PPA scheme,” he said. |
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