A/RES/72/224
Ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
Welcoming the Paris Agreement 1 and its early entry into force, 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 its resolution 55/2 of 8 September 2000, by which it adopted the
United Nations Millennium Declaration, the 2005 World Summit Outcome 3 and the
outcome document of the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly on the
Millennium Development Goals, 4
Reaffirming 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 and the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed
Countries, entitled “Istanbul Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries
for the Decade 2011–2020”, 11
Welcoming the New Urban Agenda, adopted at the United Nations Conference
on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), held in Quito, Ecuador,
from 17 to 20 October 2016, 12
Reaffirming that each country must take primary responsibility for its own
development and that the role of national policies and development strategies cannot
be overemphasized in the achievement of sustainable development, and recognizing
the need for the creation of an enabling environment at all levels and across all sectors
for the achievement of sustainable development,
Emphasizing that universal access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and
modern energy for all is an integral part of poverty eradication and the achievement
of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and that the increased use and
promotion of new and renewable energy, including in decentralized systems, and
energy efficiency could make a significant contribution in that regard,
Deeply concerned that over 3 billion people in developing countries, especially
in rural areas, rely on traditional biomass for cooking and heating, with
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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.
Resolution 60/1.
Resolution 65/1.
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.
Report of the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, Istanbul,
Turkey, 9–13 May 2011 (A/CONF.219/7), chap. II.
Resolution 71/256, annex.
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