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Rakshya Thapa

Regional Technical Specialist, UNDP Global Environment Finance

21 - 23 June 2016, Bangkok

Session 5: A Nexus Approach to Providing Universal Energy

Access

Supporting Sustainable Development Goal 7, Target 7.1 - “By 2030 ensure universal access to affordable,

reliable and modern energy services”

Organized by UNDESA, UNESCAP and UNOSD in cooperation with UN-Energy and SE4All

Pillars of Sustainable Energy

Energy Challenges

Social Economic Environmental

Sustainable Energy Through Market Transformation

Access Efficiency Renewables

Cross cutting issues: Climate Resilience, Gender, Energy Security, Disaster Risk Reduction and Recovery

UNDP IN ACTION

262

111countries

with over US$ 1 billion in grant financing

and US$ 5.7 billion in co-financing

sustainable energy projects

Being implemented or developed in

CURRENTLY

EnergyAccess*

37%

EnergyEfficiency

45%

RenewableEnergy

18%

Our Focus

• Development for Renewable Energy Applications Mainstreaming and Market Sustainability (DREAMS)

• Scale Up of Access to Clean Energy for Rural Productive Uses, India

• Promoting Sustainable Bio-energy Production, Timor Leste

• Sustainable Rural Biomass Project, Bhutan• Mitigation Action in Energy Generation and End

use sector, Srilanka• Renewable Energy for Rural Livelihood (RERL)

Nepal• RE Project in Fiji (FREPP)• Pacific Islands Greenhouse Gas Abatement

through Renewable Energy “PLUS” Project (SIDS DOCK)

• Improving the Performance and Reliability of RE Power Systems in Samoa (IMPRESS)

Delivering Energy Market Transformation

� UNDP’s approach to sustainable energy market transformation assists decision makers to identify optimal mix of public derisking measures to reduce, transfer or compensate for investment risks

� Support empowerment of communities through Energy Plus Approach by ensuring productive and social use activities

� Accelerate and enhance implementation support of sector- and technology-specific sustainable energy projects and programmes at the national and sub-national levels

� Multi-faceted connections between energy services and development, poverty, conflict and disaster risk reduction and recovery, resilience, employment, health, education, water and gender issues, including the energy-water-food nexus

� Knowledge codification and sharing, partnership at global, regional and national levels.

UNDP’s Work on Sustainable Energy in Asia and the Pacific2012-2015

1.73

933

Millionpeople

in 27

SustainableEnergyProjects

97

Countries Communities

milliontCO2eq

directlyreduced422

lead

ingto

impacting

benefiting

THANK YOU!For further information please

contact:rakshya.thapa@undp.org