A sustainable development summit in India has endorsed the idea of making access to energy a new millenium development goal (MDG) after 2015.
The Delhi Sustainable Development Summit, held 31January – 2 February, ended with the hope that a report resulting from the online consultations and meetings will be presented to the UN General Assembly in September.
‘The target should be to ensure energy access to all,’ said Lise Grande, the UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in India.
Grande said the goal should include energy efficiency, contribution to growth while avoiding environmental fallouts, affordable technology and getting private and public sectors to work together to promote energy security.
Grande was satisfied that a public consultative process to fix targets and indicators and point out gaps was already underway at the UN.
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