This policy document provides the following key messages to decision makers in Africa:
-Africa has a vast potential to produce bio-energy.
-Bio-energy has significant potential to mitigate greenhouse gases.
-Bio-energy production may also help create rural livelihoods, earn foreign exchange, and reduce dependence on imported sources of energy.
-Some important challenges, including land use and environmental challenges, must be properly addressed.
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Organization: UNECA, African Union Commission, African Development Bank
Topics: Energy, Mitigation, COP22 List of UN Publications
Type of material: Policy Document
Publication date: 2013
Language: English