Progress Toward Sustainable Energy: Global Tracking Framework 2015<\/a>, some 1.1 billion people in the world still live without electricity and almost 3 billion still cook using polluting fuels like kerosene, wood, charcoal and dung. And, while picking up steam, renewable energy generation and energy efficiency improvements will need to accelerate dramatically, it says.<\/p>\nSpeaking to the gathered delegates, Mr. Eliasson underscored that 2015 would be \u201ca milestone year\u201d for the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ and the international community as it addressed these economic, social and environmental imperatives at three key meetings: in Addis Ababa in July, where Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Member States will work to agree a new forward-looking financing framework for development; in New York in September where they would seek to adopt \u201ca bold universal new post-2015 development agenda\u201d; and in Paris in December where they would work to reach a robust universal climate agreement.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur aim is \u2013 and must be \u2013 to bring about transformative change across sectors and across societies,\u201d he added. \u201cWe need new approaches that go to the heart of unsustainable production and consumption patterns \u2013 across agriculture, industry, infrastructure and transport, and from factories to offices, from homes to market places.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Deputy Secretary-General observed that more than 80 developing countries had already joined the SE4All initiative, making commitments worth billions of dollars and taking ambitious actions on the ground. In one particular instance, he said, the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ-backed Zero Routine Flaring by 2030 initiative had brought 18 countries, oil companies and development institutions into the fold to scale up energy efficiency efforts.<\/p>\n
At the same time, much remains to be done to help close the remaining gap. According to the World Bank report \u2013 which was presented to the opening of the SE4All forum on 18 May \u2013 global policy makers must work to triple energy investments from the current level of roughly $400 billion to $1.25 trillion and to adopt modern methods of measuring energy access to replace more traditional measures, such as presence of a household electricity connection, which mask vast differences in the quality of energy services.<\/p>\n
The report also calls for transfer of knowledge and technology for sustainable energy and for increased effort to address the linkages between energy and other development sectors, including water, agriculture, gender and health. Better understanding those linkages will be critical to achieving SE4All and other development goals.<\/p>\n
\u201cMember States have already indicated that energy will be part of this new generation of development goals,\u201d Mr. Eliasson concluded. \u201cNow we must ensure that means of implementation are equal to the task.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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