SDG7 Policy Briefs and the Global Agenda for Accelerated SDG7 Action
UN Conference Room 5
Background
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
18:35 – 18:45 Opening Remarks
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
18:50 – 19:15 Interactive Panel Discussion: Advancing SDG7 Implementation
19:15 – 19:35 Interactive Panel Discussion: Interlinkages between SDG7 and other SDGs
19:35 – 19:55 Interactive Panel Discussion: Regional Perspectives and beyond
19:55 – 20:00 Closing
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)