A/RES/71/233. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2016

• Resolution Number: A/RES/71/233
• Session: 71st
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations

A/RES/71/233

General Assembly

Distr.: General

6 February 2017

Seventy-first session

Agenda item 19 (i)

16-22816 (E)

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 21 December 2016

[on the report of the Second Committee (A/71/463/Add.9)]

71/233 . Ensur ing access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and

modern energy for all

The General Assembly ,

Reca lling its resolut ions 53/ 7 of 16 Octo ber 1998 , 54/21 5 of 22 De cember

1999 , 55/ 205 o f 20 D ecember 200 0, 56 /200 of 21 D ecember 200 1, 58 /210 of

23 Dece mber 200 3, 60/19 9 of 22 Decemb er 2005, 6 2/19 7 of 19 Decemb er 2007,

64/2 06 o f 21 De cember 2009, 66/206 of 22 De cember 2011, 6 9/22 5 o f 19 Dec ember

2014 and 7 0/20 1 of 22 Decembe r 20 15, as wel l as i ts re solution s 6 5/15 1 of

20 Dece mber 20 10 on th e Intern ational Year of S ustaina ble Energ y for Al l and

67/2 15 of 21 Decemb er 201 2, in which it decided to d eclare 2014 –2024 the United

Nati ons Dec ade of S ustainab le Energ y for All,

Reaf firmi ng its resolu tion 70/1 of 2 5 Septe mber 2 015, entitle d “Tra nsformi ng

our worl d: t he 2 030 Agenda for Sus tainable De velopme nt”, in which it adopte d a

comp rehensi ve, fa r-reachi ng and peopl e-centr ed set of universa l and transf ormativ e

Sust ainable Dev elopmen t G oals and targe ts, its commit ment to worki ng tireles sly

for the full impleme ntation of the Agenda by 2030, its recogni tion t hat e radicati ng

pove rty i n al l it s for ms a nd d imensio ns, includin g ex treme pover ty, is the grea test

glob al cha llenge and an i ndispens able require ment for su stainab le de velopme nt, it s

comm itment t o ac hieving s ustainab le d evelop ment in its thr ee d imensio ns —

econ omic, social and e nvironm ental — in a ba lanced and i ntegrate d man ner, and to

buil ding up on the achi evements of t he Mi llennium Deve lopment Goals and seeking

to ad dress t heir unfi nished business ,

Reaf firmi ng al so its re solutio n 69/313 of 27 July 2015 o n the Addis Ab aba

Acti on Agen da of t he Third Intern ational Conf erence on F inancing for

Deve lopment , wh ich is a n in tegral p art of the 20 30 Agend a f or Susta inable

Deve lopment , suppor ts and c ompleme nts it, h elps to conte xtualiz e its mea ns of

impl ementati on ta rgets with concret e pol icies and actions, and reaff irms the s trong

poli tical co mmitme nt to address the ch allenge of fin ancing and c reating an ena bling

envi ronment at al l le vels for s ustainab le d evelopm ent in th e sp irit of gl obal

part nership and soli darity,