SDGs // Good Practices and Policies for Intersectoral Synergies to deploy Renewable Energy: the Water-Energy-Food Ecosystems Nexus Approach to support the Sustainable Development Goals

The Work Plan 2016–2017 of the Group of Experts focuses its activities on the following activity areas: 1. Tracking of the progress made in the uptake of renewable energy sources in the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe region; 2. Exchange of knowhow and best practices in the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe region on how to help significantly increase the uptake of renewable energy; and 3. Integration of Renewable Energy into Future Sustainable Energy Systems in the region. The present document highlights the potential of renewable energies to contribute to sustainable development in the energy sector and beyond, provided that intersectoral effects and possible synergies, as well as environmental impacts are taken into account. It does so by drawing upon the assessments of the water-food-energy-ecosystems nexus carried out in transboundary river basins under the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes, as part of the Programmes of Work 2013–2015 and 2016–2018. The document, revised in accordance with comments from the Group of Experts, will be revised at its annual session and distributed as a policy brief with recommendations for possible concrete actions.

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August 2016

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UN Economic and Social Council
Economic Commission for Europe
Committee on Sustainable Energy
Group of Experts on Renewable Energy