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UN-Energy Chair Yumkella urges Asia to make commitments toward 2030 sustainableenergy goals

VIENNA/NEW DELHI, 1 February (United Nations Industrial Development Organization) -Kandeh K. Yumkella, Director-General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization(UNIDO) and Chair of UN-Energy on Wednesday (1/02) urged countries across Asia to commit toachieving sustainable energy for all by the year 2030 by increasing access to energy, improvingenergy efficiency and increasing the use of renewables.

Yumkella, who also co-chairs the UN Secretary-General's High-level group on Sustainable

Energy for All, told participants at a conference here that new commitments and investments insustainable energy were critical for Asia's development.

"Reaching the goal of sustainable energy for all will require action by all countries and all sectorsto shape the policy and investment decisions needed for a brighter energy future. Industrializedcountries must accelerate the transition to low-emission technologies. Developing countries,many of them growing rapidly and at large scale, have the opportunity to leapfrog conventionalenergy options and move directly to cleaner energy alternatives that will enhance economic andsocial development," said Yumkella at the 12th Delhi Sustainable Development Summit,organized by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI).

Globally, one person in five lacks access to modern electricity and twice that number, three billionpeople, rely on wood, coal, charcoal or animal waste for cooking and heating. In developed

countries, the problem is a substantial waste of energy.

In order to spur economic growth, address global inequities and preserve the environment, UNSecretary-General Ban Ki-moon has established the Sustainable Energy for All Initiative. TheSecretary-General has set three complementary objectives to be achieved by 2030: to ensureuniversal access to modern energy services; to double energy efficiency; and double the share ofrenewable energy in the global energy mix.

In order to achieve these objectives, the Secretary-General is calling on all stakeholders to makeglobal commitments to action which will drive real change on the ground.

To help guide this Initiative the Secretary-General has appointed a High-level Group of eminentglobal leaders from business, finance, government and civil society to mobilize and facilitatecommitments to action which will help drive change on the ground, in corporate board rooms, andin policy discussions around the world. The High-level group's other co-chair is Charles Holliday,the Chairman of Bank of America Corporation.

"I strongly believe that now more than ever, the world needs to ensure that the benefits of modernenergy are available to all and that energy is provided as cleanly and efficiently as possible. Thisis a matter of equity, first and foremost, but it is also an issue of urgent practical importance," saidYumkella.

Other participants in the Asian regional rollout of the Sustainable Energy for All initiative in NewDelhi on Wednesday (1/02) included Farooq Abdullah, Minister of New and Renewable Energy,

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Government of India, and member of the high-level Group on Sustainable Energy for All; PeterBakker, President, World Business Council on Sustainable Development; Patrice Couer-Bizot,UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative, India; Bindu N. Lohani, VicePresident for Knowledge Management and Sustainable Development, Asian Development Bank;Rajendra K. Pachauri, TERI Director-General; David Sandalow, Assistant Secretary for Policy

and International Affairs, U.S. Department of Energy; and Erik Solheim, Norwegian Minister ofEnvironment and International Development.

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