These partnerships provide overseas local government officials with technical advice and opportunities to collaborate with U.S. city managers on issues such as urban service delivery, solid waste collection and environmental management. Six new partnerships were initiated in FY 1999. Assistance included conducting emissions inventories, establishing targets, and developing projects for implementation. Finally, eight additional new pilot cities will conduct emissions inventories and establish targets. Increased, environmentally sustainable energy production and use.
Energy brings countless benefits to human life.
Energy facilitates heating and cooling, lighting, communications, health, food, education, industrial production and transportation. Unfortunately, these benefits have yet to reach more than two billion people around the world. To achieve and maintain social and economic progress, developing countries and economies in transition need to expand their energy supply without destroying their environments. Equitable, sustainable development depends on widespread access to appropriate energy services. Increased private sector participation in the power sector of developing countries opens a multi-billion dollar industry to U.S. companies while providing needed investment in energy infrastructure.