Along those lines, the United Nations has launched the Sustainable Energy for All program that has a lofty goal of providing universal energy access by 2030.
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Alternative energy can be a universal buffer against energy supply disruptions and price shocks, as well as broader economic volatility and global cyclicality.
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With the right policies and cooperation from the public and private sector, we can make modern energy universal within a decade.
The conference is organized in support of the International Year for Sustainable Energy for All (2012) and the initiative of the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, which sets the goals for improved energy efficiency, doubling the use of renewable energies and universal access to modern energy services by 2030.
And Americans support the ideas of universal health care and energy independence.
Inside the White House, the concern about deficits was matched by the pressure to fund major initiatives such as universal health care, energy independence, and expanded access to college.
What makes things more complex is, as I've discussed before, the varied nature of the agenda, ranging from high seas protection to universal access to clean energy to corporate sustainability reporting.
America needs universal health care, alternative energy and to bring the troops home from Iraq with honour.
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In an age of mass innovation the world may even find profitable ways to deliver solutions to the 21st century's greatest needs, including sustainable clean energy, affordable and universal healthcare for ageing populations and quite possibly entirely new industries.
The meeting was part of a new initiative that aims to achieve universal access to modern sources of energy, double the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix and double the rate of improvement in energy efficiency, all by 2030.
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Dr Miller starts with the observations that music is a human universal, that it is costly in terms of time and energy to produce, and that it is, at least in some sense, under genetic control.
Start with an important universal fact: growth in electric demand outpaces that of all other energy forms.
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Domestically, Clinton supports universal health care, gun control, repealing Bush-era tax cuts, energy independence and pay-as-you-go budget practices.
There is one instructive universal historic fact: No president has left office with the country using less energy than when he was first inaugurated, although Bush (43) came close due to the recession.
These meetings have reached similar conclusions: The water, energy and food security nexus will be one of the major challenges in achieving universal access to these resources without compromising the health and stability of the environment.
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"On a lot of substantive issues like health insurance, he was the first one out of the box with a very ambitious universal plan, and I think he forced the others to become bolder in a lot of their policy prescriptions, energy dependence and so on, " Klein said.
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