International Day of Clean Energy

The Global Electricity Review 2025 report analyses electricity data from 215 countries, including the latest 2024 data for 88 countries representing 93% of global electricity demand, as well as estimates for 2024 for all other countries. The analysis also includes data for 13 geographic and economic groupings, including Africa, Asia, the EU and the G7. It also dives deeper into the seven countries and regions with the highest electricity demand, which account for 72% of global electricity demand. In addition to electricity generation data, the report uses weather and capacity data to uncover the underlying trends shaping the global power sector. We make all of the data freely accessible to empower others to do their own analysis and help speed up the switch to clean electricity . Record renewables growth led by solar helped push clean power past 40% of global electricity in 2024, but heatwave-related demand spikes led to a small increase in fossil generation. Available in: Türkçe |...

 Acknowledge the importance of long-term regional and domestic energy planning and policies across various sectors to guide actions and financing mechanisms that promote energy transitions and design and implement just and inclusive energy transition policies in individual countries, while ensuring energy security, affordability, accessibility, and markets stability and economic prosperity.

Tackle all forms of energy poverty, with a focus on ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy, including clean cooking, for all.

 Foster social dialogue and encourage meaningful and effective participation by all relevant stakeholders, including from affected communities, employers’ organisations and trade unions in the decision-making processes related to energy transitions.

Strengthen the access to appropriate social protection systems for all as part of just and inclusive energy transitions in order to support workers and communities, with particular consideration to the poor and those in vulnerable situations.

  Incorporate intersectional perspectives on gender balance, including women empowerment, age, race, ethnicity and those in any vulnerable situations into energy planning and policies and ensure a fair distribution of costs and benefits.

Respect, promote and consider respective obligations on human rights, and on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, local communities, persons with disabilities as well as labour rights in the planning and implementation of energy transitions policies and projects.

 Principle 7 - Invest in affordable and reliable solutions for just and inclusive energy transitions  Explore efficient, inclusive and just mechanisms for cost allocation in energy solutions and their impact on the cost of energy, with a focus on timely mobilisation of resources and working towards facilitating low-cost financing in developing countries for innovative technologies and business models, to widely share the benefits and to help mitigate the burden of energy transitions, especially on the poorest segments of the population.

 Implement effective and inclusive measures to ensure localised value creation and maximise the socio-economic, environmental and other benefits and their fair distribution, while making efforts towards mitigating negative socio-economic and environmental impacts of energy-related policies and infrastructure and the extraction, refining and processing of certain materials and minerals that are critical for energy transitions while respecting permanent sovereignty over natural resources and energy infrastructure.

Promote social and economic development through reliable, diversified, sustainable and responsible supply and value chains, inclusive international cooperation and local value creation and beneficiation at source for all, including in developing countries and economies in transition.

Create decent work and quality jobs in accordance with nationally defined development priorities and enable sectoral labour mobility and workforce transformation through reskilling and upskilling to create avenues of employment, while creating greater opportunities for all, noting the ILO guidelines on a Just Transition for all in this regard, as relevant

  The G20's role is crucial in shaping the global discourse on just and inclusive energy transitions , drawing on the diverse energy landscapes and potential of its member nations. It can help ensure that the global energy transition reflects the needs and priorities of all countries , including those in the Global South. In 2024, supported by the G20 Brazil Presidency and coordinated with the UN-Energy , an Energy Compact was launched based on the “ Principles for Just and Inclusive Energy Transition ” developed by the Energy Transition Working Group . The Compact targets additional signatories as a way for countries to demonstrate their commitment and leadership towards a just and inclusive energy transition. With the aim of leaving no one behind, we endorse the following voluntary principles to promote clean, sustainable, just, affordable and inclusive energy transitions in line with Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7) , the Paris Agreement and the " Outcome of the Fi...

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