Clean Energy Solutions Advanced during UN General Assembly High-Level Week
22¨C24 September 2026
This year the UN General Assembly High-Level Week proved to be a crucial platform for moving forward coordinated action and strategic solutions for energy access and transition. The UN Secretary-General's Climate Summit 2026 played a key role, including its solutions dialogues on energy transition and other issues.
The Secretary-General launched two major clean energy initiatives supported by over a dozen UN-Energy members and partners from across the UN system and beyond: a Global Grids Accelerator and a Country Support Mechanism on Critical Energy Transition Minerals. For the first time at the UN General Assembly, a High-Level Event on Clean Cooking gathered world leaders, development partners and the private sector.
The 2026 ENERGYNOW SDG7 Action Forum on 24 September brought together officials, entrepreneurs and activists working on energy access and transition to discuss how best to accelerate action. The 2026 Energy Compacts Annual Progress Report was also launched, showing major results on access, renewables and other areas at the five-year mark.
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UN-Energy: The United Nations Interagency Coordination Mechanism on Energy
UN-Energy is the principal mechanism of the United Nations for inter-agency coordination on energy. Since its establishment in 2004 within the framework of the UN System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB), UN-Energy has brought together over 30 UN entity members and partners, helping the UN system strengthen coherence, reduce duplication, foster collaboration, and deliver more aligned, coordinated and effective UN system engagement on energy.
UN-Energy reports to the CEB through its High-Level Committee on Programmes and operates under the leadership of its Co-Chairs, supported by the Secretariat.
UN-Energy Work Programme 2026-2030:
Powering Opportunity for Everyone
The UN-Energy Work Programme 2026-2030: Powering Opportunity for Everyone was launched on 8 July before a high-level audience at the HLPF Special Event on Implementing the Global Plan of Action for the Decade of Sustainable Energy for All to 2030.
The Work Programme outlines collective action to be taken by over 30 UN system and partner organizations that comprise UN-Energy, across six key areas: Foresight, Acceleration, Partnerships, Data, Convening and Communications.
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