{"id":5286,"date":"2011-09-01T13:36:55","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T17:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/?p=5286"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:46:45","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:46:45","slug":"united-nations-prioritizes-renewable-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/united-nations-prioritizes-renewable-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"United Nations Prioritizes Renewable Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ban_ki-moon_portrait.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ban_ki-moon_portrait.jpg\" alt=\"Ban Ki-moon\" title=\"ban_ki-moon_portrait\" width=\"200\" height=\"255\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5287\" \/><\/a>The United Nations has put renewable energy at the top of its agenda in 2012.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can create jobs that will stimulate economies and provide universal access to all the people,&#8221; said the UN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. &#8220;That is why the General Assembly has declared next year as the <em>International Year for Sustainable Energy for All<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>He added that providing renewable energy to the 1.4 billion people living without electricity is a priority of the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made earlier this week during a meeting with National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) researchers.<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\" target=\"_blank\">alternative energy<\/a> can create jobs, address climate change, empower women and create food security.<\/p>\n<p>The UN hopes that by 2030 every village in the world will have electricity. It wants renewable energy capacity to double by that same year.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.renewableenergyfocus.com\" target=\"_blank\">Renewable Energy Focus<\/a>)<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>You should follow us <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/energyrefuge\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li>No Related Posts Found! Go find some...<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations has put renewable energy at the top of its agenda in 2012. Related Posts:No Related Posts Found! Go find some&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1695,1041,1737],"class_list":["post-5286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternative-energy","tag-alternative-energy","tag-national-renewable-energy-laboratory","tag-un"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9238,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5286\/revisions\/9238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}