The world has changed radically in the year
since the Secretary-General’s Climate Action Summit. The world is now facing a
global pandemic and the worst economic downturn in decades. The COVID-19
pandemic has the potential to unravel important achievements on both the
Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement, but the recovery from
the pandemic also carries the opportunity of a transformation of global energy
systems and thus accelerate climate action and development. Energy transition
can play a key role in securing the achievement of a global green recovery. It will
be essential to demonstrate that this transformation is possible, with the
right policies, projects and investments.
At the Climate Action Summit, nine main
initiatives related to energy transition emerged. These initiatives each aim to
address different aspects of the energy transition, including decarbonising the
shipping sector, putting the world on a path to 3 percent annual energy
efficiency improvement, reducing emissions from the cooling sector,
accelerating climate financing, increasing access to sustainable energy in LDCs
and in SIDS, increasing renewable energy capacity in Latin America, catalyzing
a new market for energy storage solutions and achieving universal access to
clean cooking.
One year on from the Climate Action Summit,
we would like to take this opportunity to showcase the results these
initiatives have achieved in the past year, present and discuss the visions of
the initiative in the time ahead. It will provide an opportunity to discuss how
the initiatives can support countries' efforts to recover better and greener
and contribute to enhancing their NDCs.
PROGRAMME OUTLINE
• Sep 3rd: High-Level launch of
the series
• Sep 10th: Cool Coalition -
Cool Down to Speed Up Climate Action and Green Recovery. by the Cool Coalition -
Link
• Sep 11th: Renewable Energy For
Latin America and the Caribbean - Towards a Regional Energy Transition in Latin
America and the Caribbean - Link
• Sep 14th: Energy Storage
Initiative - Leveraging Renewables and Energy Storage through an integrated
approach maximizing socio-economic benefits - Link
• Sep 14th: Three Percent Club -
International collaboration and greater collective action to achieve
accelerated energy efficiency progress towards 3% goals and a sustainable
recovery - Link
• Sep 15th: Accelerating
Renewable Energy in SIDS - Energy Transformation in Small Island Developing
States: Towards sustainable and climate resilient post-pandemic recover - Link
• Sep 15th: Coalition for
Sustainable Energy Access - Why South-to-South cooperation must be part of the
solution in bridging the energy access gap in LDCs and ODCs - Link
• Sep 16th: Clean Cooking Fund
Initiative- High-Level Dialogue on Accomplishments, Opportunities and
Challenges - Link
• Sep 16th: Climate Investment
Platform - Facilitating Energy Transition for Green Recovery: Emerging Models
of Climate Finance for Clean Energy - Link
• Sep 17th: Powering Past Coal
Alliance – Accelerating the global transition to a sustainable and inclusive
clean energy future - Link
• Sep 17th: Getting to Zero
Coalition - Global opportunities for energy and fuel production to support
shipping decarbonisation - Link