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Clean, affordable energy is an imperative for sustainable development, but market forces alone cannot be expected to deliver energy services that are sustainable and meet the needs of the most vulnerable communities. Cooperation and partnerships are needed across sectors and regions to enable the use of energy as a means for meeting development targets - an idea embodied in the eighth Millennium Development Goal, to develop a global partnership for development. This page features some examples of how UNDP is fostering partnerships to promote energy as a vehicle for development.

Energy and Global Partnerships (MDG 8) 

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Poverty and Climate Change: Reducing the Vulnerability of the Poor through Adaptation (2003)

This document was launched on 10 June 2003 at the 18th Session of the Subsidiary Bodies of the UNFCCC in Bonn, as part of an interagency effort to explore and summarize the current state of knowledge on adaptation to climate change and the need for its integration into poverty eradication and sustainable development efforts.