Sustainable Energy For All: An Overview

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Energy powers opportunity. It transforms lives, economies, & our planet.

Energy powers opportunity. It transforms lives, economies, & our planet.

SUSTAINABLETHEENERGY ALL: ANDECADE OvERvIEw 2014-2024: UNITEDFORNATIONS OF SUSTAINABLE ENERGY FOR ALL

Sustainable development is not possible without sustainable energy. Nearly one person in five on the planet still lacks access to electricity. Twice that number, almost three billion people, rely on wood, coal, charcoal or animal waste for cooking and heating. This is a major barrier to eradicating poverty and building shared prosperity.

Energy is the golden thread that connects economic growth, increasedcountries, social equity, and anproblem environment In industrialized the energy is onethat of waste and pollution, not shortages or access deficits.

A meaningful post-2015 agenda must Throughplace allows world to thrive.

At a use time wheneconomic 1.2 billion out thethe world, inefficient energy harms productivity and mounting energy-related emissions worsen the equally high priority on food and nutrition, people worldwide lack to electricity, when 2.8 dangerous warming of access our planet.

Climate change putsbilus all at risk, but it hurts the poor first - and worst. health, education, infrastructure, water, lion people do not have clean and safe cooking facilities, The key to both challenges is to provide sustainable energy for all – energy that is accessible, cleaner and more efficient. and when a shift to sustainable energy use is imperative sanitation, energy and discrimination to protect the Earth’s climate, less than a worldwide Sustainable energy provides newnoopportunities for growth. It enables businesses to grow, generates jobs, and creates against women. effort is required to achieve sustainable energy for all. new markets. Children can study after dark.

Clinics can store life-saving vaccines. Countries can grow more resilient, H.E. Manmohan Singh, of the energy systems of the competitive economies.

With sustainable energy, countries over the limits Sustainable energy provides new opportunities for can leapfrog Prime Minister of India, at the 68th United Napast and Itbuild the clean energy to economies of the future. growth. enables businesses grow, generates jobs, tions General Debate, 2013

and creates energy new markets. can study aftercollective dark. future.

Sustainable for all isChildren an investment in our Clinics can store life-saving vaccines. Countries can grow more resilient, with competitive economies. With sustainable energy, countries can build the clean energy economies of the future. Transforming the world’s energy systems will also lead to new multi-trillion-dollar investment opportunities.

A PARTNERSHIP THAT DELIvERS RESULTS

The Sustainable Energy for is Allaninitiative is a multi-stakeholder partnership between governments, the private Sustainable energy for all investment in our collective future.

Universal energy access, increasing thesector, use ofand recivil society.

Launched by the UN Secretary-General in 2011, it has three interlinked objectives to be achieved by 2030: newable energy, improved energy efficiency and addressing the nexus between energy and health, women, food, water and other development issues aretoatmodern the heart of allservices. countries’ core interest, which must be deeply integrated in the 1. Ensure universal access energy post-2015 development agenda.

2. Double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency.

WHAT3.YOUDouble CANthe DOshare of renewable energy in the global energy mix.

These objectives are complementary.

Progress in achieving Whether you represent a government, the private sector, one civilcan help with progress toward the others. society, academia, a school, an organization, a local government The Sustainable Energy for The Sustainable Energy for All initiative also acts in support of the 2014-2024 Decade of Sustainable Energy forAll All, as or simply yourself and your good idea, please join the Sustaindeclared by the UN General Assembly.

(SE4ALL) initiative able Energy for All (SE4ALL) effort.

The SE4ALL initiative, launched in 2011, aims to catalyze major new investments to achieve three objectives by 2030: ensuring universal The Sustainable Energy for All initiative brings together …take action and seek new projects and partnerships access modern energy services, doubling top-level leadership from all sectors of society, drawing our to planet, lifting people out of poverty, The number of possibilities in the field of sustainable energy is Saving the share of renewable energy in the global on the global convening power of the United Nations economic growth – these are one limitless. The Decade can be your incentive to explore these pos- advancing energy mix, and doubling the global rate of and the World Bank. The initiative’s Advisory Board, cosibilities and come together with new partners and create new and the same fight. improvement in energy efficiency. Some 80 chaired by the Secretary-General and the World Bank opportunities for yourself and others. Have you really explored Governments from around the world have forGroup President, includes distinguished global leaders all sustainable energy opportunities?

United Nations mally engagedSecretary-General with the initiative. Businesses from governments, business and civil society. They proand investors have committed tens of billion Ban Ki-moon vide strategic guidance to the initiative and serve as its …show-case success-stories, best practices, lessons learned, dollars to-date. A multi-stakeholder Advisory global ambassadors. commitments and achievements Board, co-chaired by the Secretary-General There no lack ofthe current initiatives, projects transforma- for Sustainable Energy for All, is chief executive of the Kandehis Yumkella, Secretary-General’s Specialand Representative and the World Bank President, provides overtions that and haveisthe potential others to follow suit. initiative supported bytoa inspire Global Facilitation Team.

An One Executive Committee operational guidance and is all guidanceprovides to the initiative. example is the Energy Access Practitioner Network.

Why don’t headed by Chad Holliday, Chairman of the Board, Bank of America. you share your success-story?

LEADERSHIP THATaCATALYZES ACTION to…

The Decade offers unique opportunity

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MOBILIZING ACTION At the country-level …help shape the Decade to be as effective as possible Some 80 countries have opted-in to the initiative, from By adding perspective, you can bring in some small islandyour states to large, emerging economies.

As good ideas that should be explored during the Decade. country needs are identified, the initiative is mobilizSustainable energy hassector connections iming public and private partnerstotothemes provideascritiportant as gender equality, health, water and food, as cal support, including technical assistance, resources, well as many other development enablers.

What should and access to timely information and knowledge. By the Decade focus on?seeks to accelerate the provision 2015, the initiative

of electricity 200onmillion people, and and ef…spread the to word the importance ofclean Sustainable ficient cooking and heating solutions to 400 million Energy for All and the Decade individuals.

Energy is a critical enabler for primary health Ending poverty and ensuring sustainability are care services, especially during childbirth. the defining challenges of our time. Energy is centralYumkella, to both of them.

Kandeh Special Representative of the Secretary-General World BankSustainable Group President (SRSG)/CEO, Energy for All

Jim Yong Kim

Today, energy remains the missing MDG. You may be responsible for a big upcoming event or network highlighting of the Decade would fit in Through where high impact oportunities Rajendra K. Pachauri, nicely.

Let your affiliations know the importance High Impact Opportunities (HIOs)about are areas of action undertaken Chair, by multiple stakeholders thatTERI have significant potenIPCC/Director-General, of sustainable energy for all, the challenges that exist tial to advance the three objectives of Sustainable Energy for All. Some 50 of these High Impact Opportunities have and least theincluding: opportunities it Cooking entails. Do you knowRenewable Energy Procurement; Gas Flaring Reduction; Energy & beennot identified, Clean Solutions; someone interested?

Women’s Health; Sustainable Energy for Island Economies; Sustainable Biofuels; Off-Grid Lighting, and Advanced Lighting/Appliance Efficiency.

I have to spend half the day collecting fuel For each High Impact Opportunity, one or more lead partners facilitates action across the HIO reports wood.collaborative So I cook only once a day.

Thisand is volon results.

Where relevant, actions contributing to High Impact Opportunities are connected to other HIOs or to work United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will lead untary or compulsive starvation for my family. underway within Sustainable Energy for All’s country-driven action plans. the coordination of the activities of the Decade through

SUPPORTING THE DECADE – WHO TO ASK

Gulara, his Special Representative (SRSG) for Sustainable Energy widow and member of the for All, Kandeh Yumkella, who is also the CEO of the Self-Employed Women’s Association Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) initiative.

Accountability and transparency are essential for tracking global progress toward the initiative’s three objectives. A Global Tracking This coordination will...

1 in 5 people Framework, a joint initiative of the World Bank and its Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP), the International Energy ...help facilitate new partnerships, projects and actions worldwide lack access to electricity.

Agency 15 other global Team organizations, establishes A SE4ALLand Global Facilitation will facilitate actionsbaseline globally,enbacked by regional and thematic hubs in the World ergy data and provides regular bi-annual on trends in Inter-American energy Bank, African Development Bank, Asian updates Development Bank, Development Bank, Denmark/UNEP Risø 4 in 5 Executives access, the renewable energy Renewable and energyEnergy efficiency.

Thethe Global Tracking Centre, International Agency, United Nations Development Programme, and The Energy and say that energy efficiency will play a FrameworkInstitute. will identify where efforts will be needed going forward Resources more important role in their business and highlight countries that are making noteworthy progress. theachievements future ...ensure spaces for sharing of success-stories, best practices, commitmentsinand The Decade will provide platforms for success-stories and tracking progress at the global, regional, national and local At least 118 countries levels. The main stage will be a yearly Sustainable Energy for All High-Level Event. now have policy targets on Sustainable energy for all is an idea whose time has come. Working ...be open to every suggestion in shaping the Decade to be as effective as possible renewable energy in partnership, governments, parliamentarians, private sector comBased on your input, a Decade Action Plan will be presented during the first year, including with proposals for possible panies, industries, and civil society are making diverse contributions themes to be picked up over the years. The supportive countries in the Group of Friends of Sustainable Energy for All inspired by a unity of purpose. Together,,we we can can power power aa sustainable sustainable are among many that are already providing their input. future free of poverty.

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BUILDING THE FUTURE wE wANT

...support you if you want to spread the word on Sustainable Energy for All and the Decade We can help provide materials and connect you with speakers to make the Decade visible. The high-profile members of the SE4ALL Advisory Board are already speaking up strongly. Over time, the development of a global network for sustainable energy for all could also be further explored.

Contact Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General Global Facilitation Team Sustainable Energy for All United Nations

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