A/RES/74/225
Ensuring access to affordable, reliable,
sustainable and modern energy for all
the urgent need to enhance international cooperation to facilitate access to clean
energy research and technology, including renewable energy, energy efficiency and
advanced and cleaner fossil-fuel technologies, and improved infrastructures for
supplying affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for a ll;
28. Calls for national efforts to promote access to affordable, reliable,
sustainable and modern energy for all and strengthened local engagement to
complement current approaches, and reaffirms the commitment to supporting
subnational and local efforts, taking advantage of their direct control, where
applicable, of local infrastructure and codes to foster uptake in end -use sectors, such
as residential, commercial and industrial buildings, industry, agriculture, transport,
waste and sanitation;
29. Encourages the Secretary-General to continue efforts to promote the
provision of stable, adequate and predictable financial resources and technical
assistance for sustainable energy and to enhance the effectiveness, coordination and
full utilization of appropriate international funds for the effective implementation of
national and regional high-priority projects for ensuring access to affordable, reliable,
sustainable and modern energy for all, and welcomes the convening of the high -level
dialogue on the midpoint review of the United Nations Decade of Sustainable Energy
for All (2014–2024), held on 23 and 24 May 2019;
30. Invites the Secretary-General, with the support of the relevant United
Nations system entities, to convene a high-level dialogue in 2021, financed through
voluntary contributions, to promote the implementation of the energy -related goals
and targets of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 14 in support of the
implementation of the United Nations Decade of Sustainable Energy for All,
including the global plan of action for the Decade, as described in the report of the
Secretary-General, and the high-level political forum on sustainable development;
31. Encourages UN-Energy to support coherence and coordination among the
energy-related activities of the entities of the United Nations development system,
within their respective mandates, in line with the implementation of resolutions
71/243 of 21 December 2016, 72/279 of 31 May 2018 and Economic and Social
Council resolution 2019/15 of 8 July 2019, in order to assist countries, in particular
at the country level, upon request by their Governments, by explicitly leveraging
partnerships with other international organizations, donors and relevant stakeholders,
including in their efforts to achieve universal access to sustainable energy and to
accelerate its deployment;
32. Reaffirms the commitment at the very heart of the 2030 Agenda to leave no
one behind and commit to taking more tangible steps to support people in vulnerable
situations and the most vulnerable countries and to reach the furthest behind first;
33. Calls upon the Secretary-General to promote renewable energy, energy
efficiency and related sustainable practices in all United Nations facilities and
operations around the world, where appropriate and economically viable;
34. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its
seventy-fifth session a report on the implementation of the present re solution,
including activities carried out to mark the United Nations Decade of Sustainable
Energy for All, and decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy -fifth
session, under the item entitled “Sustainable development”, the sub-item entitled
“Ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all ”.
52nd plenary meeting
19 December 2019
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