4. Stresses that the attainment of the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) will require the mobilising of substantial sources of financing from both
public and private resources to provide access to modern energy services for the poor; therefore calls on the Commission to present within shortly a proposal on how to significantly increase the financial resources in support of energy cooperation with developing countries; stresses that the establishment of a special EU Sustainable Energy Fund – like the
one considered for water and using either re ...[+++]sources, not spent within the 8th EDF, or part of the conditional resources within the 9th EDF – would represent a powerful contribution to the solution of energy poverty and calls on the Commission to strongly consider such an initiative; underlines that other measures to be considered could be to increase the financial envelopes of the Regulation 2493/2000 on “measures to promote the full integration of the environmental dimension in the development process.”. as well as the newly adopted regulation “Energy Intelligent Europe" and the use of decommitted funds for programmes within EDF and the ordinary budget that have been terminated or cancelled;
4. unterstreicht, dass für die Erreichung der Millennium-Entwicklungsziele beträchtliche Finanzmittel aus sowohl öffentlichen als auch privaten Quellen mobilisiert werden müssen, um den Armen den Zugang zu modernen Energiediensten zu ermöglichen; fordert die Kommission daher auf, binnen kurzem einen Vorschlag vorzulegen, wie die Finanzmittel zur Unterstützung der Energiezusammenarbeit mit den Entwicklungsländern nennenswert erhöht werden können; unterstreicht, dass die Schaffung eines speziellen EU-Fonds für nachhaltige Energie – analog zu dem für Wasser geplanten Fonds – unter Nutzung von Mitteln, die im Rahmen des 8.