Sustainable Energy for All: a critical element for the MDGs

At the September 2010 UN General Assembly Summit to review progress on achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), world leaders acknowledged that, despite significant efforts and successes, much more needs to be done to reach the targets by 2015. One of the crucial elements of the action agenda they adopted was an emphasis on energy issues: access to affordable energy, energy efficiency, and sustainability of energy sources and uses.