The first International Clean Energy Day will be celebrated tomorrow, a few weeks after COP28 - the World Conference on Climate Change - in Dubai where the 195 UN countries have reached an unprecedented agreement to abandon fossil fuels, agreeing to triple the capacity of renewable energy to global level and to double the global average annual rate of energy efficiency by 2030.
It was the United Nations General Assembly, with a resolution of 25 August 2023, that decided to proclaim 26 January - the anniversary of the foundation of the international Agency for renewable energy (Irena) in 2009 - International Clean Energy Day.
The UN assembly shared that "the transition towards clean and renewable energy sources is essential to address current environmental and socioeconomic challenges and ensure human survival and the well-being of the planet" as stated by Markova Concepción Jaramillo, presenter of the proposal put forward by Saudi Arabia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Brazil, Cape Verde, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, United Arab Emirates, Philippines, Guatemala, Guyana, Kuwait, Morocco, Oman, Panama, Paraguay, Dominican Republic, Suriname, Turkey and Uruguay.
Cop28 - we read on the Irena website - has "offered a unique opportunity to take stock of global solutions to limit the increase in global temperature to 1.5 degrees and to promote a positive and action-oriented approach".
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