24 Sep 2012

UN / SUSTAINABLE ENERGY

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today (24 September) the objectives of the Sustainable Energy for All Initiative — universal access to modern energy services by 2030 — are ambitious but can be reached through "bold policies, greater investments, and innovative partnerships betweens the public and private sectors." UNTV

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STORY: UN / SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
TRT: 1.45
SOURCE: UNTV 
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 24 SEPTEMBER 2012, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

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FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY

1.	Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters

24 SEPTEMBER 2012, NEW YORK CITY

2.	Med shot, dais
3.	SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
"Our objectives are ambitious. Universal access to modern energy services by 2030; doubling the rate we improve energy efficiency worldwide; doubling the share of renewables in the global energy mix. We can reach all these objectives by 2030. But we will need bold policies, greater investments, and innovative partnerships between the public and private sectors."
4.	Wide shot, audience
5.	SOUNDBITE (English) Kandeh Yumkella, Director-General of UNIDO:
"Without access to energy we cannot achieve Millennium Development Goals, without an energy revolution we cannot solve the challenge of climate change. It is scary because the challenge is big, energy issues are sensitive and I start an assignment that is not well defined yet. But that's the excitement of the challenge. This initiative is important for the world."
6.	Med shot, delegate
7.	SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Young Kim, President of the World Bank:
"Ending poverty and ensuring sustainability are the defining challenges of our time and access to sustainable energy is central to both of them. Energy systems that reliably deliver access to all citizens are central to meet basic human needs; for simple tasks like heating homes and cooking meals. They are needed for lighting schools and power up health centres. And access to electricity is needed to attract private sector investment necessary for creating jobs and expanding opportunities."
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STORYLINE:

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today (24 September)  the objectives of the  Sustainable Energy for All Initiative  --  universal access to modern energy services by 2030    --  are ambitious but can be reached through "bold policies, greater investments, and innovative partnerships betweens the public and private sectors."

In an address today to UN Member States and other stakeholders at a high-level event on the margins of the UN General Assembly meeting in New York, the Secretary-General said  he had asked Kandeh Yumkella, currently the Director-General of the UN Industrial Development Organization and Chair of UN-Energy, to serve as his Special Representative for Sustainable Energy for All and chief executive of the initiative.

Yumkella told the meeting that "without access to energy we cannot achieve Millennium Development Goals, without an energy revolution we cannot solve the challenge of climate change."

He said his new assignment was "scary because the challenge is big, energy issues are sensitive" the new post "is not well defined yet."

The Secretary-General also announced that he had invited the President of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, to serve with him as co-chair of the initiative's newly formed Advisory Board.

Jim said "ending poverty and ensuring sustainability are the defining challenges of our time and access to sustainable energy is central to both of them."

The initiative has three stated objectives: to provide universal energy access; to double the rate of global energy efficiency improvement; and to double the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix.