A/RES/75/221
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
30 December 2020
Seventy-fifth session
Agenda item 19 (h)
Sustainable development: ensuring access to affordable,
reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 21 December 2020
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/75/457/Add.8, para. 7)]
75/221.
Ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern
energy for all
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 53/7 of 16 October 1998, 54/215 of 22 December 1999,
55/205 of 20 December 2000, 56/200 of 21 December 2001, 58/210 of 23 December
2003, 60/199 of 22 December 2005, 62/197 of 19 December 2007, 64/206 of
21 December 2009, 66/206 of 22 December 2011, 69/225 of 19 December 2014,
70/201 of 22 December 2015, 71/233 of 21 December 2016, 72/224 of 20 December
2017, 73/236 of 20 December 2018 and 74/225 of 19 December 2019, as well as its
resolutions 65/151 of 20 December 2010 on the International Year of Sustainable Energy
for All and 67/215 of 21 December 2012, in which it decided to declare 2014–2024
the United Nations Decade of Sustainable Energy for All,
Reaffirming its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled “Transforming
our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in which it adopted a
comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and transformative
Sustainable Development Goals and targets, its commitment to working tirelessly for
the full implementation of the Agenda by 2030, its recognition that eradicating
poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extre me poverty, is the greatest
global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development, its
commitment to achieving sustainable development in its three dimensions – economic,
social and environmental – in a balanced and integrated manner, and to building upon
the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals and seeking to address their
unfinished business,
Reaffirming also its resolution 69/313 of 27 July 2015 on the Addis Ababa
Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development,
which is an integral part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, supports
and complements it, helps to contextualize its means of implementation targets with
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