A New Energy Future

The UN Foundation’s Climate and Energy program is accelerating progress toward a new energy economy.  We have helped create scores of sustainable energy enterprises in developing countries, advance energy efficiency across the globe, and direct millions toward clean energy investments.  As the stories below indicate, a new energy future can transform our economic and environmental future, as well as quality of life for individuals, communities and the international community as whole.

STORIES OF IMPACT

  1. NYC Students Get Environmentally Engaged

    Area of Involvement: Climate & Energy

    Ever wonder if an engine could run on algae -- and if so, whether or not you could build it? Or how about that local, toxic, abandoned plot of land that you wish could be sustainably restored? Well, wonder no more, because a group of 100 New York City Public High School Students have figured out new, creative ways to address these critical environmental issues and more.

  2. Largest Investor Group Ever Calls for Strong Climate Change Agreement

    Area of Involvement: Climate & Energy

    Investors are sounding the alarm on climate change. On September 16, 2009, the world’s largest global investors issued a joint call for strong action to reduce global warming pollution and catalyze massive global investments in low-carbon technologies. Signed by 181 investors collectively managing more than $13 trillion in assets, the statement is the most significant investor pronouncement on climate change in world history.

  3. The United Nations Foundation is in every corner of Ethiopia

    Area of Involvement: US-UN Relations; Children’s Health; Climate & Energy; Technology; Women & Population

    The UN Foundation’s executive director of global partnerships just wrapped up an extensive trip to Ethiopia, which brought her from rural villages to urban centers to everywhere in between. And while it’s hard to re-create such a dynamic trip in words, Elizabeth is doing exactly that with a blog series on her incredible experiences. 

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See You In Copenhagen: Climate Change at the Grassroots

Part of the “See You In Copenhagen” series. Grassroots innovator Zhou Bo and sustainable micro-financier Daniel Foa are working with fishermen in China to help them increase their living standards with minimum impact on the environment. They discuss how the agreements in Copenhagen in December 2009 can help people and organizations on an operational level. Produced in part by the United Nations Foundation.

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