2022 Accomplishments

Did you know that, between September 2021-2022, UNECE Sustainable Energy, in its support for the Committee on Sustainable Energy and through its regional advisory services:

• Organized the 31st session of the Committee, 5 expert group annual meetings, 73 Bureau meetings, and more than 30 workshops, trainings, and webinars, reaching more than 3000 professionals, nearly a third of which were women?
• Finalized more than a dozen papers, guidance documents, case studies and reports and a carbon neutrality toolkit that support decision making on how to achieve sustainable energy systems?
• Launched a new UNECE Sustainable Energy LinkedIn page, gaining more than 500 followers in just a few months?
• Conducted 19 missions in 10 member States - that involved more than 50 days of on-site support and 100+ meetings, workshops and trainings - resulting in the training of more than 1600 experts?   

Through activities like these, UNECE promotes international policy dialogue and cooperation, and builds capacity on sustainable energy among governments, energy industries and other stakeholders to improve access to affordable and clean energy for all and helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the carbon footprint of the energy sector in the region.

Learn more about these accomplishments here.

This document “Guidance for the Application of the United Nations Framework Classification (UNFC) for Mineral and Anthropogenic Resources in Europe" will assist regional and national authorities to establish and maintain a Project inventory of primary and secondary raw materials Projects in Europe. The inventory will be based on the United Nations Framework Classification for Resources. The inventory will cover Projects that aim at the recovering of mineral raw materials from geological occurrences in the earth crust (geogenic resources) and from extractive industry residues such as tailings, stockpiles, and waste rocks (anthropogenic resources).

Climate Champions' Expanded Compendium of Climate Related Initiatives

Portfolio of high-impact climate action projects in the UNECE region, focused on areas from scaling up renewables deployment to means of energy storage, and from critical raw materials to waste and digitalization, that were identified at the  Forum on Regional cooperation on enhancing sustainable management and financing for the critical raw materials and presented at COP27 on 8 November.

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