The High-level Dialogue on Energy and its Impacts Mobilizing Energy Action

The UN High-level Dialogue on Energy (HLDE) resulted in the first-ever global roadmap for accelerating Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7) and the announcement of over 160 Energy Compacts. These voluntary commitments from governments, businesses, and civil society include more than USD 400 billion in new finance and investment to address energy poverty and decarbonize energy systems. The dialogue established specific milestones for 2025 and 2030, including the phase-out of coal and the tripling of global renewable power capacity.

• The HLDE produced the first global roadmap for accelerating SDG7, which sets specific milestones for 2025 and 2030 to achieve universal energy access and an accelerated energy transition.
• Over 160 Energy Compacts were announced, representing voluntary commitments from a diverse group of stakeholders, including 40 Member States, 54 private sector entities, and 19 multilateral bodies.
• Financial commitments totaling more than USD 400 billion in new finance and investment were pledged through Energy Compacts and pre-events to support clean energy access and transition.
• Specific high-value financial pledges included a USD 11.4 billion commitment from the US by 2024, a USD 1.5 billion climate investment fund from Norway over five years, a USD 1 billion investment in renewable energy from the UAE, and a USD 1 billion global platform from the Rockefeller and IKEA Foundations.
• Several countries, including Chile, Denmark, France, Germany, Montenegro, Sri Lanka, and the UK, committed to ending new permits for unabated coal immediately and stopping new construction by the end of 2021.
• The 2025 milestones for the global roadmap include providing electricity to an additional 500 million people, clean cooking solutions to 1 billion more people, and ensuring no new coal power plants are in the pipeline after 2021.
• The 2030 milestones aim for universal access to electricity and clean cooking, tripling global renewable power capacity, and phasing out coal power plants within the OECD by 2030 and globally by 2040.

APA

Sustainable Energy for All (2021). The High-level Dialogue on Energy and its Impacts Mobilizing Energy Action. https://www.seforall.org/system/files/2021-11/Mobilizing-Energy-Action-HLDE-SEforALL.pdf

Chicago

Sustainable Energy for All. The High-level Dialogue on Energy and its Impacts Mobilizing Energy Action. 2021. https://www.seforall.org/system/files/2021-11/Mobilizing-Energy-Action-HLDE-SEforALL.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{sustainableenergyforall2021highlevel, author = {{Sustainable Energy for All}}, title = {{The High-level Dialogue on Energy and its Impacts Mobilizing Energy Action}}, institution = {Sustainable Energy for All}, year = {2021}, month = sep, url = {https://www.seforall.org/system/files/2021-11/Mobilizing-Energy-Action-HLDE-SEforALL.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }