Consultative Workshop on 'Fast tracking Sustainable Energy Solutions for Human Development'

Achieving Sustainable Energy for all (SE4ALL) is one of the fundamental needs for attaining the development goals while ensuring economic growth and safeguarding the environment. Access to energy is a necessary precondition to achieving many development goals that extend far beyond the energy sector—eradicating poverty, increasing food production, providing clean water, improving public health, enhancing education, creating economic opportunity, and empowering women (UN, 2012). Despite this, the ground realities are starkly different. Around 1.3 billion people worldwide lack access to electricity, while 2.8 billion people do not have clean and safe cooking facilities, implying that billions of people are exposed to harmful smoke and emissions on a daily basis.

In this backdrop, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), under the auspices of its SE4ALL capacity building hub, in collaboration with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and Department for International Development, Government of UK (DfID), organized a series of workshops for senior government officials on the broad theme of Energy for Human Development. In Madhya Pradesh, a workshop was organized on December 17, 2014 under the specific theme of 'Fast-tracking Sustainable Energy Solutions for Human Development'. The workshop was attended by 75 senior & mid-level government officials and subject matter experts from TERI.