Broad coalition calls for refugees’ energy needs to be met
The assembled organizations agreed that access to clean and sustainable energy can transform broken lives, create empowering opportunities and bridge the humanitarian-development divide.
Call for applications for US$1M sustainable energy grant
Applications are open to individuals, institutions or partnerships based on past and current achievements.
UN celebrates Earth Hour around the world
The United Nations' Secretariat building, agencies and missions around the world hit the switch to darken their buildings from 8:30-9:30 p.m. local time on Sat., 19 March, to show their support for climate action.
Ban: Global investors must play full role in shift to clean energy
More than 500 global investors gathered at UN Headquarters to mobilize the trillions of dollars needed to move the world onto the path of clean energy, with Ban Ki-moon challenging them to, at a minimum, double clean energy investments to $660 billion by 2020.
Ban: Sustainable energy can ‘save millions of lives’
Millions of lives can be saved by ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed at the World Future Energy Summit taking place in the United Arab Emirates.
Renewable energy ‘limitless and will last forever,’ says Ban at global debate
Everyone involved in energy—governments, the private sector, investors and financial institutions, cities, and people everywhere–has understood that we can no longer burn our way to global prosperity, Ban Ki-moon declared at a debate hosted by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the Financial Times.
‘Business can be a global force for good,’ Bans says as General Assembly honours UN Global Compact
The business community and the private sector can make a difference as United Nations Member States are in the process of formulating a new sustainability agenda, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today said at the General Assembly, which was meeting to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the UN Global Compact.
UN set to observe Earth Hour to mobilize climate action
The United Nations will switch off its lights at it New York Headquarters tonight in support of Earth Hour, an annual event featuring the participation of millions of people around the world to call attention to the need for climate action.