A/RES/72/224
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
25 January 2018
Seventy-second session
Agenda item 19 (i)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 20 December 2017
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/72/420/Add.9)]
72/224.
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 and 71/233 of 21 December 2016, 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 wor king tirelessly for
the full implementation of the Agenda by 2030, its recognition that eradicating
poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest
global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable develo pment, 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
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,
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