Integrating sustainable energy and climate change into the Post-2015 agenda: how and why?
29 November 2013
Integrating sustainable energy and climate change into the Post-2015 agenda: how and why?
Time: 26 November 2013, 8am-9am
Location: Amartya Sen Conference Room, FF Building, New York.
Introduction
The aim of the post-2015 development framework is to “eradicate extreme poverty in all its forms while ensuring a sustainable development path for all countries”. However, climate change is an existential threat, that is and will continue to disproportionately affect the poorest and most vulnerable people and places the most, impacting negatively those least responsible for the climate crisis. Further, securing universal access to modern energy services and transitioning energy systems away from fossil fuels is central to solving both the climate change crisis and the global poverty crisis.
A goal on energy access for people in poverty and many other goals on poverty eradication will only be effective in the long run if it addresses also the causes of climate change and all its impacts. It is essential to start finding concrete ways to integrate climate protection and human development needs in a holistic development framework.
A group of environment and development organizations convened by CAFOD and WWF UK with the support of Beyond 2015 and CAN-International put together a set of concrete recommendations on how to meaningfully address energy access and climate change across the post-2015 framework. The resulting discussion papers form the basis for a conversation on these pertinent topics during the November sessions of the OWG on SDGs.
Purpose
This breakfast meeting will provide a space for open and informal discussions on concrete suggestions to integrate sustainable energy access for all and tackling climate change into the post-2015 development framework.
Program
- 8:00am – Welcome and introductions, Corinne Woods, Director UN Millennium Campaign
- 8:05am – Concrete suggestions on how to integrate energy access and climate change into the post-2015 framework, Bernadette Fischler, CAFOD/Beyond 2015
- 8:15am – Open Discussion moderated by the Chair, Corinne Woods, Director UN Millennium Campaign
- 9:00am – End of event
*The discussion will be held under Chatham House rules to encourage an open dialogue