글로벌 클린워터 담수화 동맹은 파리 기후협약에 따라 17개 동맹국가에 신규 담수화 플랜트에 전력을 공급할 때 청정 에너지를 사용할 것을 요구했다. 이번 요청은 물·에너지 넥서스와 기후변화에 대응하기 위한 동맹 목적의 한 부분이다.

동맹은 2040년 담수화로 인해 이산화탄소 발생량이 270톤까지 증가한다는 예측에 따라 증가량을 줄이기 위한 방안을 찾고 있다. 이에 동맹은 각 연합국에 담수화 에너지 효율성을 증진시키고 기존 플랜트를 업그레이드하며, R&D 및 실증 프로젝트를 증가시킬 것을 요구하고 있다. 또한 혁신기술의 보급을 늘리고 용량 구축 및 분석을 증가시키며, 강력한 정책 및 규제 프레임워크를 마련할 것을 촉구했다.

 

 

 

The Global Clean Water Desalination Alliance - H₂0 minus CO₂ initiative, launched at the current climate talks in Paris, has called on its 17-nation membership to use clean energy to power new desalination plants. The call was part of the alliance's aim to tackle the water-energy nexus and climate change.

 

The alliance aims to find ways to reduce the projected increase in carbon dioxide emissions from desalination by as much as 270 tonnes a year by 2040. It has urged its members to improve the energy efficiency of desalination, upgrade existing plant, increase research and development and demonstration projects, step up the dissemination of innovative technologies, increase capacity building and analysis, and to draw up strong policies and regulatory frameworks.

 

The alliance includes a founder group of more than 80 signatories from government and the public and private sectors. Industries, research institutions, universities and other organizations from Australia, Belgium, China, Comoros, France, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Italy, the Netherlands, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, the UK, the US have already joined.

 

Secretary general of the International Desalination Association (IDA), Patricia A Burke, said the IDA - a founding member of the Global Clean Water Desalination Alliance - included reducing emissions in desalination as "a goal of IDA's Energy and Environmental Task Forces, and we believe that the alliance's initiative will bring us ever-closer to realizing this objective."

 

"Access to water of the populations of the South and many other areas even in industrialized countries will be secured in the future due to renewable energy and innovation," said president of France's Syndicat des Energies Renouvelables Jean Louis Bal.

 

[출처 = Desalination & Water Reuse / 2015년 12월 8일]