Publication - Leveraging Energy Action for Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals
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Title
Leveraging Energy Action for Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals
Publisher
the United Nations
Author
the United Nations
Published in
July 2021
Abstract
The world has made significant progress toward SDG 7 in some areas. Yet efforts remain well below the scale required to meet the goal by 2030. If we do not accelerate the global momentum towards universal energy access and a decarbonized, climate resilient energy system, we will fail to deliver on the Sustainable Development Agenda. Energy action must be at the heart of the climate action agenda to secure global net zero emissions by mid-century as all countries step up their ambition and Nationally Determined Contributions towards the UNFCCC COP26 in Glasgow in November. We need to do more, much faster.
That is why the Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is convening the High-level Dialogue on Energy in September 2021 under the auspices of the General Assembly. The Dialogue represents the first global gathering on energy since the UN Conference on New and Renewable Sources of Energy held in Nairobi in 1981. It presents a historic opportunity to provide transformational action in the first years of the SDG Decade of Action and support the implementation of the Paris Agreement. This fourth edition of the Policy Briefs, coordinated by the SDG7-TAG, will provide a strong basis for determining what needs to be done to scale up and accelerate progress on SDG 7 between now and 2030, and how energy action can best be leveraged for the achievement of all the other SDGs. The Policy Briefs will inform the discussions at this year’s High-Level Political Forum(HLPF) to be held in July on the theme of “Sustainable and resilient recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic that promotes the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development: building an inclusive and effective path for the achievement of the 2030 Agenda in the context of the decade of action and delivery for sustainable development”. As the Secretary-General for the High-level Dialogue on Energy, I am encouraged that the SDG 7 Policy Briefs have already provided substantive inputs into the preparatory process for the High-level Dialogue on Energy in September, especially on enabling SDGs through just, inclusive energy transitions, one of the five themes of the Dialogue. I commend the strong engagement of many members of the SDG 7 Technical Advisory Group under the able leadership of its co-facilitators Sheila Oparaocha and Hans Olav Ibrekk. UN DESA will continue to lend its support to the SDG 7 Technical Advisory Group in delivering simultaneously on the 2030 Agenda and the Paris Agreement.
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