UNIDO and the World Energy Council have signed a joint declaration to enhance their collaboration in building capacity of decision makers and energy leaders in developing countries.
The organizations' initiative aims to accelerate sustainable energy expansion building on existing platforms, such as SEforAll, which entered a partnership with UNIDO in the spring of 2017.
The declaration was signed during the World Leaders' Summit, an annual event aiming to facilitate dialogue on measures that support energy security, energy equity and environmental sustainability.
12 September 2017: The UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the World Energy Council (WEC), an independent network of global energy leaders, signed a joint declaration in which the organizations commit to collaborate in the dissemination of sustainable energy solutions.
Under the partnership, UNIDO and WEC will collaborate in building the capacity and leadership skills of policy makers and energy leaders from developing countries, and explore opportunities to promote energy access through existing platforms such as the Sustainable Energy for All (SEforAll) initiative. In May 2017, UNIDO and SEforAll already entered a partnership with ENEL, one of the world’s leading utilities, to cooperate with key stakeholders in accelerating access to sustainable energy including by supporting power grid efficiency and electrification.
The joint declaration was signed during the World Energy Leaders’ Summit organized by WEC and the Energy Secretariat of Mexico (SENER). The Summit is an annual high-level exclusive event for global energy leaders to facilitate dialogue on critical energy issues. Held from 12-13 September 2017, in Mexico City, Mexico, this year’s event focused on measures to balance the ‘energy trilemma,’ that is the challenge to simultaneously improve energy security, energy equity (accessibility and affordability) and environmental sustainability of energy supply. Measures discussed include decentralized approaches, innovative business models to drive and enable change, and energy sector reform and policies to support energy systems resilience. [UNIDO Press Release][WEC Press Release, 12 September, UNIDO Partnership][WEC Press Release, 12 September, World Energy Leaders’ Summit][See4All Press Release, 12 May 2017, Partnership with UNIDO and ENEL]