Your Excellency, President Remengesau of Palau,State Secretary of Norway, MP. Holte,Mr. Adnan Amin, Director-General of IRENA,Honorable Ministers,Distinguished Participants,Ladies and Gentlemen,
It gives me great pleasure to join you this evening.
This is a momentous gathering on the occasion of the SDG 7 review at the High-Level Political Forum, the first critical milestone in taking stock of progress-to-date.
The message from the review of SDG 7 is clear: A transformative approach to energy lies at the heart of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
Access to clean, affordable and modern energy services is essential if we are to leave no one behind.
Clean energy transition can realize synergies between the 2030 Agenda and climate change. It reduces emissions, strengthens resilience and produces tremendous development benefits, from innovation to new jobs, from poverty reduction to empowered women.
I am very encouraged to see that renewable energy is acting as a catalyst and a force-multiplier for the implementation of SDGs.
Around the world, over half of the new power generation capacity now comes from renewable energy.
Off-grid renewable energy solutions are expanding rapidly in so many developing countries to provide access to energy services, including those in the last miles.
The opportunities ahead of us are enormous. We must seize them.
I commend the global leadership of IRENA in making the best knowledge and expertise available to steer all of us toward the right directions.
Ladies and gentlemen,
The momentum around renewable energy is enormous.
Still, it’s not sufficient. The progress toward SDG 7 remains too slow to be on track to meet the global energy targets for 2030.
I urge all stakeholders to maintain the momentum and redouble your efforts on all your initiatives.
Partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources are indispensable to success.
We at UN DESA are committed to doing our part to make SDG 7 a reality.
To support the Global Conference on SDG 7 review, we have convened the multi-stakeholder SDG 7 Technical Advisory Group, which produced a set of 27 SDG 7 Policy Briefs. We will continue to strengthen our work with the group.
As the secretariat of UN-Energy, DESA will enhance its coordination and alignment within the UN system and beyond.
Together, let us continue our work to make SDG 7 a reality.
Thank you.
It gives me great pleasure to join you this evening.
This is a momentous gathering on the occasion of the SDG 7 review at the High-Level Political Forum, the first critical milestone in taking stock of progress-to-date.
The message from the review of SDG 7 is clear: A transformative approach to energy lies at the heart of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
Access to clean, affordable and modern energy services is essential if we are to leave no one behind.
Clean energy transition can realize synergies between the 2030 Agenda and climate change. It reduces emissions, strengthens resilience and produces tremendous development benefits, from innovation to new jobs, from poverty reduction to empowered women.
I am very encouraged to see that renewable energy is acting as a catalyst and a force-multiplier for the implementation of SDGs.
Around the world, over half of the new power generation capacity now comes from renewable energy.
Off-grid renewable energy solutions are expanding rapidly in so many developing countries to provide access to energy services, including those in the last miles.
The opportunities ahead of us are enormous. We must seize them.
I commend the global leadership of IRENA in making the best knowledge and expertise available to steer all of us toward the right directions.
Ladies and gentlemen,
The momentum around renewable energy is enormous.
Still, it’s not sufficient. The progress toward SDG 7 remains too slow to be on track to meet the global energy targets for 2030.
I urge all stakeholders to maintain the momentum and redouble your efforts on all your initiatives.
Partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources are indispensable to success.
We at UN DESA are committed to doing our part to make SDG 7 a reality.
To support the Global Conference on SDG 7 review, we have convened the multi-stakeholder SDG 7 Technical Advisory Group, which produced a set of 27 SDG 7 Policy Briefs. We will continue to strengthen our work with the group.
As the secretariat of UN-Energy, DESA will enhance its coordination and alignment within the UN system and beyond.
Together, let us continue our work to make SDG 7 a reality.
Thank you.
File date:
Monday, July 16, 2018