In this section:
• Pouring Oil on the Flames: How European Energy Demand Drives Intrastate Conflict Abroad
• Quakers and the Energy Crisis: What can Friends Offer the Movement for Change?
• Elephant in the Room: Geopolitical Conflict and Oil Security
• Enough Energy for All? Fuel Poverty at Home and Abroad
The Sustainable Energy Security project seeks to redefine energy security for the 21st century so that it incorporates human security, fair energy distribution and genuine sustainability. The project is also exploring the special contribution Quakers can make to the shift in culture, behaviour and technology that will be required if we are to build a sustainable, secure future for all. Read more about why QCEA is working on energy security issues.
Where does Europe's Imported Energy come from?
The EU imports 54% of its energy needs. This is set to rise to 67% by 2030. Europe imports 84% of its oil. By 2030 this is projected to rise to 95%.
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Pouring Oil on the Flames: How European Energy Demand Drives Intrastate Conflict Abroad
The EU imports 54% of its energy needs. This is set to rise to 67% by 2030. EU countries are especially dependent on foreign oil. At present the EU imports 84% of the oil it consumes. This figure is projected to rise to 95% by 2030, with a substantially increased share of this oil coming from the Persian Gulf region...
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Quakers and the Energy Crisis: What can Friends Offer the Movement for Change?
Are you a Friend or attender? We would be delighted if you could take part in our research. We have designed a questionnaire to help us find out more about Quakers' and attenders' approach to environmental issues and their hopes and fears for the future. Download the questionnaire here (doc - kb).
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Elephant in the Room: Geopolitical Conflict and Oil Security
In his recently published memoir, Alan Greenspan, former head of the US Federal Reserve, writes that for war leaders like Tony Blair and George Bush 'it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil'. Political inconvenience may account too for the relative lack of attention in the NGO community to geopolitical conflict between states over access to and control over oil resources, especially when such conflict involves Western states like the USA and Britain...
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Enough Energy for all? Fuel Poverty at Home and Abroad
In an age of profligate energy use and booming energy demand in the developed world, 3 billion people in the developing world have no access to modern energy provision. This means that nearly half of the world's population has limited or no access to modern water treatment, health care, agriculture, nor to the lighting and electricity that make modern business and education possible...
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