Ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern
energy for all
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and complements it, helps to contextualize its means of implementation targets with
concrete policies and actions, and reaffirms the strong political commitment to
address the challenge of financing and creating an enabling environment at all levels
for sustainable development in the spirit of global partnership and solidarity,
Reaffirming further the Paris Agreement 1 and its early entry into force, and
encouraging all its parties to fully implement the Agreement and parties to the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 2 that have not yet done so to
deposit their instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, where
appropriate, as soon as possible,
Recalling the Climate Ambition Summit convened by the Secretary-General on
20 September 2023,
Taking note of the World Investment Report 2023, entitled Investing in
Sustainable Energy for All,
Noting the establishment by the Secretary-General of the Global Crisis
Response Group on Food, Energy and Finance,
Highlighting the synergies between the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development and the Paris Agreement,
Recalling the ministerial declaration of the high-level political forum on
sustainable development 3 held in 2022, which took note of the Secretary-General’s
proposed global road map for accelerated Sustainable Development Goal 7 action and
reaffirmed the need to continuously engage on the implementation of Goal 7,
Recalling also its resolution 77/327 of 25 August 2023, in which it proclaimed
26 January as the International Day of Clean Energy,
Expressing concern that, at current rates of progress, none of the global energy
targets of the Sustainable Development Goals will be achieved by 2030,
Reaffirming the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 4 the Rio Declaration
on Environment and Development 5 and Agenda 21 6 and the principles set out therein,
and recalling the recommendations and conclusions contained in the Plan of
Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg
Plan of Implementation) 7 and the outcome documents of the United Nations
Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled “The future we want”, 8 the third
International Conference on Small Island Developing States, entitled “SIDS
Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway”, 9 the second United Nations
Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries, entitled “Vienna Programme of
Action for Landlocked Developing Countries for the Decade 2014–2024”, 10 the
Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, entitled
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Adopted under the UNFCCC in FCCC/CP/2015/10/Add.1, decision 1/CP.21.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1771, No. 30822.
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-seventh Session, Supplement No. 3
(A/77/3), chap. VI, sect. D.
Resolution 55/2.
Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro,
3– 14 June 1992, vol. I, Resolutions Adopted by the Conference (United Nations publication,
Sales No. E.93.I.8 and corrigendum), resolution 1, annex I.
Ibid., annex II.
Report of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa,
26 August–4 September 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.03.II.A.1 and
corrigendum), chap. I, resolution 2, annex.
Resolution 66/288, annex.
Resolution 69/15, annex.
Resolution 69/137, annex II.
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