Energy, Climate, Sudan & other topics - Daily Press Briefing (4 November 2021)

The United Nations of Earth reporting on this issue: "Energy, Climate, Sudan & other topics - Daily Press Briefing (4 November 2021)"
The topics: Noon briefing by Eri Kaneko, Associate Spokesperson for the Secretary-General. Highlights: - Secretary-General’s Travels - Energy - Climate/Adaptation - Climate/Tourism - Climate/Humanitarian - Sudan - Ethiopia - Afghanistan - Yemen - Lebanon - Cuba/COVID-19 - Food Price Index - Guest Tomorrow SG TRAVELS The Secretary-General is now heading back to New York. A few hours ago, he was at Pembroke College at Cambridge University, where he engaged in public discussion with students and faculty on Ethics and Climate Change.  The Secretary-General underscored the need to truly listen and engage with young people, as they are the biggest allies for climate action. It is ethically indefensible not to take future generations into account, he told them.  He encouraged students and young activists to continue to work, shout and mobilize so that we can have effective action against climate change. ENERGY Today is Energy Day at COP26. The Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Sustainable Energy for All, Damilola Ogunbiyi, presented the Secretary-General’s global roadmap to achieve clean energy for all by 2030 and net-zero emissions by 2050, as an outcome of September's High-level Dialogue on Energy. The roadmap calls for 500 million more people to have access to electricity in just four years' time - by 2025 - as well as 1 billion more people to get access to clean cooking. It also urges a tripling of annual investment for renewable energy and energy efficiency globally by 2030. CLIMATE/ADAPTATION A new report by the UN Environment Programme calls for urgent efforts to increase the financing and implementation of actions designed to adapt to the growing impacts of climate change. The Adaptation Gap Report found that while policies and planning are growing for climate change adaptation, financing and implementation are still far behind where they need to be. In addition, the report finds that the opportunity to use the fiscal recovery from the pandemic to prioritize green economic growth is largely being missed as fewer than one third of 66 countries funded COVID-19 recovery measures to address climate risks. Full Highlights: https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/noon-briefing-highlight?date%5Bvalue%5D%5Bdate%5D=04%20November%202021


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