European Strategy for Sustainable, Competitive and Secure Energy
- Need for urgent investment (1 trillion euros by 2025)
- Import dependency and source concentration is rising (50%->70% by 2030)
- Global energy demand is rising (60% by 2030)
- Prices are rising (oil and gas prices doubled in two years)
- Climate change is real and happening (greater threat than global terrorism?)
- Markets have not yet fully developed. Interconnection is not complete. Externality costs are not covered
Ethical Dimensions – The deciding factors?
- How practically do we balance climate change supply security and economics?
- International competitiveness – should we sacrifice to lead?
- Is it our role to develop technologies others can use? …and that are ‘futureproof’?
- Access to affordable energy and elimination of fuel poverty – energy policy or social policy?
- Resource use, waste and intergenerational equity?
- Jobs and rural employment and relationship to the land/landscape change?
- Should Government lead or should markets and ‘personal choice’ be relied upon to deliver?
- Big companies or local and personal solutions – ‘global or local’?
Applying a Christian ethic?
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- Recognition of those in power
- Their duty to give a moral lead
- Our duty to challenge and inform
- Respect for the rights of all people
- This generation
- Developing world
- Developed world
- Scotland as a nation
- Scottish local communities
- Future generations
- Duty to care for the disadvantaged and less well off
- The poor at home
- In developing countries
- Stewardship of Creation
- Preservation of environment
- Reducing and avoiding waste
- Duty to make best use of resources
- Using sustainable resources first
- Making best use of limited natural resources
- Making best use of limited financial resources
- Making best use of talents