SDG7 Policy Briefs and the Global Agenda for Accelerated SDG7 Action

Energy lies at the heart of both the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. To support the first SDG7 review at HLPF 2018, a set of 27 Policy Briefs on SDG7 and its interlinkages with other SDGs have been compiled by the SDG7 Technical Advisory Group (SDG7-TAG), composed of experts from governments, UN organisations, international organisations and other stakeholders convened by UN DESA.

At this HLPF side event, Members of the SDG7-TAG shared the key messages from the SDG7 Policy Briefs, including the Global Agenda for Accelerated SDG7 Action.



PROGRAMME

18:30 – 18:35 Welcoming Remarks

• Hans Olav Ibrekk, Policy Director, Energy and Climate Change, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Sheila Oparaocha, Executive Director, ENERGIA (Co-Facilitators of SDG7-TAG)

18:35 – 18:45 Opening Remarks

• H.E. Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi, Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations


• Kaveh Zahedi, Deputy Executive Secretary, ESCAP

18:50 – 19:55 Accelerating SDG7 Achievement: Policy Briefs in support of the first SDG7 Review at the UN High-Level Political Forum 2018

18:45 – 18:50 Global Agenda for Accelerated SDG7 Action

• Minoru Takada, Team Leader (Energy), Division for SDGs, DESA

18:50 – 19:15 Interactive Panel Discussion: Advancing SDG7 Implementation

• Elisa Portale, World Bank (access to electricity)


• Maria Neira, WHO (clean cooking solutions)


• Rabia Ferroukhi, IRENA (renewable energy)


• John Christensen, UNEP (energy efficiency)


• Marcel Alers, UNDP (financing)


• Tareq Emtairah, UNIDO (technology)


• David Shropshire, IAEA (capacity building)

19:15 – 19:35 Interactive Panel Discussion: Interlinkages between SDG7 and other SDGs

• Siddharth Sareen, University of Bergen (energy poverty)


• Heather Adair-Rohani, WHO (energy-health)


• Rabia Ferroukhi, IRENA (energy-jobs)


• Rakshya Rajyashwori Thapa, UNICEF (energy-education)


• Thomas Fohgrub, UNITAR (energy in situations of displacement)

19:35 – 19:55 Interactive Panel Discussion: Regional Perspectives and beyond

• Heidi Schroderus-Fox, OHRLLS (LDCs/LLDCs/SIDS)


• Scott Foster, UNECE (regional perspectives)


• Radia Sedaoui, ESCWA (regional perspectives)


• Frank van der Vleuten, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands, and Robert Kirchner on behalf of BMZ (decentralized renewables for universal access)

19:55 – 20:00 Closing

• Hans Olav Ibrekk, Policy Director, Energy and Climate Change, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Sheila Oparaocha, Executive Director, ENERGIA (Co-Facilitators of SDG7-TAG)