Topic: Encouraging Alternative Energy
Country: Jordan
Delegate Name: Janea Wilson
School: Roeper School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Jordan position papers GLIMUN 2015 committees
The nation of Jordan sees that it is important to find alternative energy sources in order to slow the growth of carbon emissions. Jordan realizes that in order to slow the growth of greenhouse gasses, prevent further damage to the ozone, and to return carbon dioxide levels to lower levels, action must be taken. It is more difficult for poorer nations, Jordan, to implement alternative energy because it is expensive to research, develop, and install. The search for alternative energy has held great attention since the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg of 2002.
Currently 99.6% of Jordan’s energy comes from fossil fuels. Considering that our neighbor Saudi Arabia holds 18% of the world’s oil, it is less costly to use than another energy source, but Jordan has limited oil reserves of its own. Jordan currently imports almost all of its oil from neighboring nations, primarily Saudi Arabia.
Initiatives to use renewable energies have been made. They are not cost-efficient to developing nations because of the start-up costs. Energy sources that are dependent on the weather are not always reliable which may not make them the best way of powering an area. Richer countries, with the technologies to do so, should put limits on their carbon emissions.
In countries that have the technology and financing can better utilize alternative energy sources by making them widely available. Carbon based fuels are the most used sources of energy in many large countries. America uses a large amount of the world’s oil and should be to form an alternative energy source. In California, a company has been able to create high performance oils from microalgae. Other counties that have coasts and are able to fund a project like that and should do so. Microalgae oils are natural, so they do not harm the ecosystem and produce no carbon dioxide. The production is costly, but if the oil is produced more, the cost could decrease.
With the assistance of the EU, Morocco has recently developed massive solar power farms to add to their already substantial wind power generation capacity, with the goal of producing 50% of their energy needs from renewable resources by 2020. Given the similarities in climate, environment, resources, and industrial development, Jordan is considering the feasibility and costs of similar projects. We urge other nations to share these technologies, and help developing nations with the costs of implanting these. Countries which have the technology to do so should make alternative energy accessible to as many nations and people as possible.
The Clean Development Mechanism under control of the Kyoto Protocol which provides financing for renewable energy technologies in developing countries. Developing countries should accept that help in order to slow and then halt the growth of greenhouse gasses, so that global ecology can remain the same.
