International Renewable Energy Agency Renewables and Islands Global Summit
- recognize the critical role that energy plays in the development process, and commits to facilitate support for access to sustainable modern energy services by the 1.4 billion people worldwide currently without them;
- emphasize the need to address the challenge of access to sustainable modern energy services for all;
- reaffirm support for the implementation of national and subnational policies and strategies;
- commit to supporting efforts on electrification and dissemination of sustainable cooking and heating solutions;
- recognize the need for energy efficiency measures in urban planning, buildings and transportation, and in the production of goods and services and product design;
- recognize the importance of promoting incentives favoring, and removing disincentives to, energy efficiency and the diversification of the energy mix; and
- note the SE4All initiative and express determination to make sustainable energy for all a reality, while recognizing that countries set priorities according to their specific challenges, capacities and circumstances, including their energy mix.
Published September 17, 2012
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