The world must use trillion-dollar coronavirus pandemic recovery and stimulus measures to ensure that countries are nudged towards a green economy, Achim Steiner, administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) told Al Jazeera.Steiner, who is co-chairing Friday’s High-level Dialogue on Energy (HLDE) at the UN, says the event is an opportunity for governments to take bold action towards universal access to clean, affordable, reliable energy and to end reliance on fossil fuels.Friday’s meeting on energy is the first held under the auspices of the General Assembly since 1981. It also comes weeks ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) later this year, which hopes to see nations commit to ambitious 2030 emissions-reductions targets.
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