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Committee: United Nation Development Programme (UNDP)

a. Committee’s Mandate: to empower lives and build resilient nations.
b. UNDP’s aim: to achieve the aforementioned key action areas by relying on integrated
interventions in policy, technology, finance, delivery systems, capacity development,
community mobilization, and awareness raising to reduce and, if possible, remove a
range barriers that inhibit investments in scaling up energy solutions.
The Strategic Plan answers two questions: (a) what we want UNDP to be; and (b) what we
want to achieve.
By 2021, we want UNDP to:
(a) Strengthen its relevance as a trusted partner in a complex and evolving development
landscape, strongly committed to its mandate to eradicate poverty;
(b) Be more nimble, innovative and enterprising – a thought leader that succeeds in taking
and managing risks;
(c) Be more effective and efficient in utilizing resources to deliver results.

By 2021, we want to catalyse tangible progress on:

(a) Eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, and keeping people out of poverty;
(b) Accelerating structural transformations for sustainable development, especially through
innovative solutions that have multiplier effects across the Sustainable Development Goals;
(c) Building resilience to crises and shocks, in order to safeguard development gains.

Vision: Developing countries increasingly adopt sustainable energy solutions, embarking on

an energy transition by creating the enabling conditions that will catalyse public and private
investment to scale up action on energy access, renewable energy and energy efficiency. By
making their energy sectors more sustainable, their economies can follow a more equitable
growth path, contributing to poverty eradication while combating climate change and
increasing their resilience.
Mission: UNDP will leverage its country presence, expertise and experience to enable its
government partners to implement sustainable energy measures, catalysing investments
from the public, private and financial sectors to scale up action on energy access, renewable
energy and energy efficiency, contributing to poverty eradication, equitable economic
growth, and climate change mitigation and adaptation.
c. Committee’s Past Action or Current Action regarding providing universal energy access
Renewable energy: Currently, UNDP implements 42 renewable energy projects in 38
countries worldwide, mobilizing a total of US$114 million Global Environment Facility
(GEF) resources and leveraging another US$926 million in co-financing from other
sources.
Energy Efficiency: As a case in points, with support from the Green Climate Fund (and
building on past support from the Global Environment Facility) UNDP is helping Armenia
to create a favorable market environment for investment in energy-efficient building
retrofits. Direct beneficiaries include at least 82,000 people living in single and multi-
family buildings. This includes at least 6,000 members of women-headed households.
Energy access: In Nepal, UNDP has helped install and operate 445 micro-hydropower
plants to generate electricity for more than 98,000 households. In addition to improved
sources of energy and lighting, this has helped increase enrollment of children in schools
from 63 percent to 75 percent, and helped establish more than 670 micro-enterprises,
resulting in the creation of over 1,500 jobs. This work has also contributed to recovery
efforts following the devastating earthquake in 2015 by helping local governments restore
 energy to damaged buildings, like offices and health clinics, and by ensuring lighting in all
temporary structures through solar-powered technologies.
Sustainable cities and transport: UNDP’s support to sustainable cities includes integrated
solutions that combine renewable energy and efficiency measures with other aspects of
urban design, such as sustainable mobility, transport, and waste management. In
addition, UNDP’s energy-related portfolio includes a growing number of sustainable
transport projects in cities around the world. This includes support to the uptake of
sustainable transport technologies and systems, bus rapid transit, fuel cell bus and light
rail, and the use of biofuels. Together, these initiatives contribute to a reduction in
transport-related GHG emissions and an improvement in living quality standards in urban
areas.
UNDP’s Sustainable Energy Strategy Note, 2017-2021: Delivering Sustainable Energy in a
Changing Climate articulates – for the first time – UNDP’s vision, mission, approach,
guiding principles, and focus in the area of sustainable energy. It also highlights the critical
role that sustainable energy plays in advancing major outcomes from post-2015 global
processes including the SDGs, the Paris Agreement, the Sendai Framework for Disaster
Risk Reduction, and the New Urban Agenda.
The strategy builds on UNDP’s strengths and over two decades of experience in promoting
sustainable energy solutions around the world. It comprises three key action areas in line
with SDG7 targets: increasing access to affordable, reliable and sustainable energy;
increasing the global rate of improvements in energy efficiency; and increasing the share
of renewable energy in the global energy mix.
UNDP’s approach in supporting countries to achieve the above three interlinked areas
relies on a suite of integrated interventions in policy, technology, finance, delivery
systems, capacity development, community mobilization, and awareness raising to
reduce and, where possible, remove a range of barriers that inhibit investments in scaling
up sustainable energy solutions.

2. Country: Libya
a. Country’s Stance:
With the increase in energy demand and the international drive to reduce carbon
emission from fossil fuel, there has been a drive in many oil-rich countries to diversify
their energy portfolio and resources. Libya is currently interested in utilising its renewable
energy resources in order to reduce the financial and energy dependency on oil reserves.
the Renewable Energy Authority of Libya (REAOL) has been founded to promote the
development of renewable energy in Libya to increase the utilization of renewable energy
to 10% by the year of 2025. There is also a plan for renewable energy sharing with
traditional energy to reach 30% by the year 2030 which mainly includes wind energy,
Concentrating Solar Power (CSP), Photovoltaic (PV) and Solar Water Heating (SWH)
(REAOL, February 2011). The government therefore plans to utilize the renewable energy
sources to their full potentiality by the year 2050 in order to satisfy the energy
requirements of the country and still export the excess energy.
b. Country’s Priority:
The policy of the government is nowadays one of the most major challenges, where
centralization in decision-making, and investment law making in particular, is
hindering RET-based development. In the context of the described opportunities,
upgrading the energy infrastructure and optimising the energy transmission and
distribution systems would substantially contribute to development. However, the
greatest opportunity lies in implementing sustainable RE technologies. RET is the most
sustainable way to develop the Libyan energy sector. It can feasibly and viably
contribute to solving the currently problems facing this sector. Implementation of
these technologies would deliver advantages for the Libyan environment, economy,
and society. Further, this would contribute to climate-political requirements at the
global level. As closing words for this work, Libya’s energy future lies in renewable.