Resources
Below you'll find meeting notes, press releases, documents, reports and other resources for use in the Sustainable Energy for All intiative.
General
- Action Agenda
- A Framework for Action
- Secretary General's High-Level Group on Sustainable Energy for All, Membership
- Sustainable Energy for All, A Vision Statement by Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General
- United Nations General Assembly Resolution declaring 2012 the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All
- Report of the Co-Chairs - September 2012
Newsletters
Infographics
Summaries/Consultations
- June 2012 Practioner Network Call
- April 2012 Civil Society Teleconference Consultation
- New Delhi Q&A Summary
- International Year of Sustainable Energy for All-Asia Pacific Rollout Session 3
- International Year of Sustainable Energy for All-Asia Pacific Rollout Keynote Session 2
- International Year of Sustainable Energy for All-Asia Pacific Rollout Session 1
- Brussels Private Sector Consultation
- International Year of Sustainable Energy for All-European Rollout Summary
- Workshop on Facilitating Energy Access and Security: Role of Mini/Micro Grids
Documents/Reports
- Sustainable Energy for All Advisory Board
- The UN’s ‘Sustainable Energy for All’ initiative is compatible with a warming limit of 2°C
- Energy Access Practitioner Network - Towards Achieving Universal Energy Access by 2030
- Sustainable Energy for All - The Business Opportunity
- Report of the Secretary-General's Advisory Group on Energy and Climate Change
- Energy Poverty: How to make modern energy access universal? A special excerpt of the World Energy Outlook 2010
- Summary for Policymakers from the Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, May 2011
- Realizing the Potential of Energy Efficiency, United Nations Foundation expert report, 2007
- Secretary General's High-Level Group on Sustainable Energy for All, Membership
- Preliminary Media Coverage: World Future Energy Summit
- Preliminary Media Coverage: 12th Delhi Sustainable Development Summit
- A Summary Report of the World Future Energy Summit (WFES) 2012 (English, PDF)
- A Summary Report of the World Future Energy Summit (WFES) 2012 (Arabic, PDF)
Press Releases
- UN Secretary-General and World Bank President name Sustainable Energy for All Advisory Board members
- UN sustainable energy initiative could put world on a path to climate targets (Laxenburg, 24 February 2013)
- UN Secretary-General Announces New Leadership for Sustainable Energy for All initiative (New York, 24 September 2012)
- UN Secretary-General Highlights Significant Commitments to Action in support of Achieving Sustainable Energy for All (Rio de Janeiro, 22 June 2012)
- UN Secretary-General Announces Significant Commitments to Action in support of Achieving Sustainable Energy for All (Rio de Janeiro, 21 June 2012)
- Sustainable Energy for All Initiative Releases Major New Commitments to Action by Governments, Private Sector and Civil Society ahead of Rio+20 Conference (New York, 18 June 2012)
- Practitioner Network Releases Recommendations to Achieve Universal Energy Access (Rio de Janeiro, 18 June 2012)
- UNDP Goodwill Ambassador Antonio Banderas invites people to join the global conversation on Rio+20 (New York, 24 May 2012)
- Linkin Park and Music for Relief to Bring Solar Power to Uganda Health Clinics (Los Angeles, 9 May 2012)
- Twenty Small Island Developing States announce new actions that reduce dependence on fossil fuels and end poverty (Bridgetown, 8 May 2012)
- Coalition of World Energy Ministers Commit to Improvements in Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Energy Access (London, 26 April 2012)
- UN Secretary-General welcomes European Commission's Commitment to Sustainable Energy for All (Brussels, 16 April 2012)
- Announcing Rio+Social: Social Media & Technology to Take Historic UN Conference to a Global, Digital Level (Washington, DC, 24 March 2012)
- UN-Energy Chair Kandeh Yumkella Commends EU Leadership, Calls for Commitments to Sustainable Energy for All (Brussels, 9 February 2012)
- UN-Energy Chair Yumkella urges Asia to make commitments toward 2030 sustainable energy goals (New Delhi, 1 February 2012)
- UN Secretary-General calls for Action to Achieve Sustainable Energy for All by 2030 (Abu Dhabi, 16 January 2012)
Helpful Websites
- International Renewable Energy Agency
- UN-Energy
- United Nations Industrial Development Organization
- United Nations Development Programme
- United Nations Global Compact
- United Nations Foundation
- Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century
- United Nations Environment Program
- Energy Access Practitioner Network
Major Speeches by the Secretary-General
- Remarks at the Rio+20 Side Event on Green Growth - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 21 June 2012
- Remarks to the Media at Rio+20 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 20 June 2012
- Remarks to the Europeaon Union "We Cannot Burn Our Way to Prosperity" - Brussels, Belgium, 16 April 2012
- Remarks at Center for Global Development on "Delivering Sustainable Energy for All" - Washington, DC, 20 April 2012
- Remarks to the World Future Energy Summit - Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 16 January 2012
- Remarks to the General Assembly on Sustainable Energy for All - New York, NY, 1 November 2011
- Remarks to the Media on Sustainable Energy for All - New York, NY, 1 November 2011
- Remarks at Conference on Energy for All: Financing Access for the Poor - Oslo, Norway, 10 October 2011
- Secretary-General's Report to the General Assembly "We The Peoples" - New York, 21 September 2011
- Secretary-General's remarks at Roundtable on "Sustainable Energy for All" - Denver, Colorado, 24 August 2011
Other Major Speeches
- UNGA President Calls for New Paradigm on Energy, Speech by UN General Assembly (UNGA) President Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser
- Modern, Clean and Efficient Energy for All, Speech by Yoshiteru Uramoto, Deputy to the Director-General, UNIDO at the 64th Session of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
Videos
- Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks at World Future Energy Summit
- Sustainable Energy for All Video
- United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) Youtube Page
- UNIDO's Green Industry concept on CNN
- UNIDO Director-General on Sustainable Energy for All
- OFID On Energy Poverty
- TERI Director-General, Rajendra K. Pachauri, on Sustainable Energy for All
- Keynote Speech Kandeh Yumkella, Vienna R20 Conference 2013
- Al Gore, Bundchen and Yumkella on Sustainable Energy for All
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