Topic: Encouraging Alternative Energy
Country: Burkina Faso
Delegate Name: Lara Muschel
School: Royal Oak High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Burkina Faso position papers GLIMUN 2015 committees
Policy of
Encouraging Alternative Energy
Fossil Fuels and “Non-Alternative” Energy sources are part of the main reasons for Pollution, which leads to CO2 emissions, thus contributing to the issue of Climate Change.
Alternative Energy includes solar energy, wind energy, hydropower e.t.c… that even though somewhat slow to produce at times would be much more beneficial to the world, than the fossil fuels currently used for energy. However, new methods have been devised to allow alternative energy to be made in a speedier way, thus making it so that if we use this energy in lieu of fossil fuels, we would be able to help our environment, and prevent the further damaging of it. Since clean energy also reduces the amount of Carbon Dioxide reduced into the atmosphere, we could thus also reduce the rapid rise of global warming, to which our globe is currently subject to.
Burkina Faso is largely depended on Fossil Fuels such as oil, and takes a great amount of energy from such sources, and transitioning to other energy sources may take a veritable amount of time. While also dependent on Natural Gas Reserves, it might still be very difficult for countries such as Burkina Faso to introduce types of Renewable Energies into their economies, so that must also be considered, in the time estimated that it will take for countries to adapt renewable energy.
Policies that encourage (and perhaps also reward?) the use of Alternative Energy could greatly aid the need for this type of energy in less fortunate countries. If individual businesses and the government work together to establish and cement a base for the use of Alternative Energy, it would also be easier for poorer nations to establish grounds for the use of Alternative Energy.
A very simple way to get nations with less means started in the Alternative Energy process would be to have them use biomass energy (the burning of waste in order to obtain clean energy) which would be an easy and doable thing for third world countries to do.
Setting aside certain expanses of land (if possible government issue) for the establishment of solar panels, thermal energy plants, hydroelectric plants e.t.c. could also make it less complicated to establish ways to access alternative energy.
Burkina Faso proposes that other nations – that are in possession of more currency than say third world countries – should donate or lend to these third world countries and provide structures of support for them in order for these nations to provide clean energy to their citizens, and help the world as a whole (the reduction of unnecessary pollution).
Solar Energy, Tidal Energy, Wind Energy, and Geothermal Energy would be the most likely to last the longest, whereas thermal energy and fossil fuels would be less beneficial to us. The four above energy types are in a sense… inexhaustible, meaning that we can use them over, and over again, which is more beneficial than using energy sources that pollute our atmosphere, and are consequently not inexhaustible.
Burkina Faso thus encourages all other Nations to start the process of integrating the use of clean Alternative energy into their energy sources, which would consequently greatly aid the world's atmosphere and environment.
-, Royal Oak High School Model United Nations Delegate, GLIMUN 2015
