Sustainable consumption and production and the energy sector

How can developing countries acquire badly needed modern energy services without damaging human health and the environment within their own borders and beyond? Will they be able to profit from lessons learned in developed countries? How can energy efficiency be increased in the developing and developed world at the rate required? How can pollution - which, it is now recognized, does not respect national borders - continue to be reduced? These are some of the issues addressed at Monterrey, in the context of sustainable development and energy. International initiatives, including those in which UNEP is involved, are described.