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Belize Energy Sector Diagnostic PUC 40 Energy and Belize’s Sustainable Development Energy and Social Development Modern societies depend on reliable energy supply to sustain their productive capacity and social cohesion. Thus energy is strategically important for developing countries. According to the World Bank, “countries that do not use modern forms of energy efficiently cannot realize their potential for creating wealth nor lift their populations out of poverty.”124 While there was no information available to this study on the relationship between energy and social development in Belize, there was also no basis to suggest that the Belize experience would differ from that of other countries in like circumstances. Like other developing nations, Belize has high levels of poverty125 implying that there are a number of individuals, mostly in the rural areas unable to satisfy what is considered to be basic human needs such as food, shelter, fuel, clothing, safe water, sanitation, healthcare and education. According to the Country Poverty Assessment report in the GOB’s National Poverty Elimination Strategy and Action Plan (1998-2003)126, even though the majority of people have access to electricity, in Toledo (the poorest district), 63.4% of the population was still dependent on kerosene for lighting. Additionally, in the same district, 55% or 2,455 households use wood for cooking.127 While this is a mere 4% of total households in the country,128 that the figures are so high in the poorest district in the nation suggests that the poor are much more dependent on wood for cooking than the non-poor. Energy services, although only one dimension, is a critical input to the primary development challenge of providing basic needs. For example energy supports the provision of cooked food, comfortable living temperatures, lighting, the use of appliances, piped water or sewerage, essential health care (refrigerated vaccines, emergency and intensive care), education aids and communication (the internet, radio, television). In Belize the lack of access to energy services mean that the poor must walk or use animal power, live in badly lighted homes, conduct study activities by candle or kerosene light, cook with polluting fuels like wood and dung and complete productive activities during daylight hours. Additionally, given that kerosene and wood are among the leading fuels used by the poor, a reasonable inference is that the health, education and productive activities of poor Belizean women and children are particularly sensitive to the availability of modern energy sources. Access to modern cooking fuels for example, would free women and children from the burden of collecting and carrying large loads of fuelwood, and from exposure to the debilitating fumes and fires produced by wood burning stoves. According to a WHO report, cited above, fumes from wood burning stoves is said to increase the risk of childhood acute respiratory infections like pneumonia, bronchitis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Among women, there is emerging evidence that exposure during pregnancy reduces birth weight, infant and prenatal mortality may also be increased and it is likely to exacerbate asthma. 124 The World Bank Group’s Energy Program, Poverty Reduction, Sustainability and Selectivity, Energy and Mining Sector Board, www.worldbank.org, pg. 5 125 see section 2. reported at 25% of households mostly in the rural areas. 126 Pg 1 127 Census 2000. total HH in Toledo = 4,463 128 Census 2000 reported total households = 55,798.PDF Image | Energy for Sustainable Development Toward a National Energy Strategy for Belize Energy Sector Diagnostic
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