Scaling Up Finance for Sustainable Energy Investments
Remarks delivered by Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group, review the commitment to the U.N. Decade for Sustainable Energy for All. The initiative is a multi-stakeholder partnership working with governments, businesses, civil society, banks and internatio...
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| Format: | Speech |
| Language: | English en_US |
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2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/02/25877126/scaling-up-finance-sustainable-energy-investments-jim-yong-kim-president-addis-ababa-ethiopia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24304 |
| Summary: | Remarks delivered by Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group, review the commitment to the U.N. Decade for Sustainable Energy for All. The initiative is a multi-stakeholder partnership working with governments, businesses, civil society, banks and international
institutions to meet three interlinked goals by 2030: (i)
ensuring energy access to more than 1 billion people living without electricity; (ii)
doubling the share of renewable energy in the global energy
mix; and (iii) doubling the rate of improvement in energy
efficiency worldwide. These three goals are interlinked and
vital for achieving the twin goals of ending extreme poverty
by 2030 and boosting shared prosperity. He concludes saying
that, we must now prove that we can make energy available to
the hundreds of millions who need it and work together to
end energy poverty in our lifetime. |
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