Background Guide
This Sustainable Development Goal has to do with ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all by 2030.
What is SDG 7?
This motion is required for the committee to begin deliberations on the topic.
What is the Motion to Open Debate?
Established in 2015, there are 17 of these global policy goals.
What are the Sustainable Development Goals?
This 2015 international treaty called for countries to help prevent global temperatures from rising more than 2.0 degrees Celsius from pre-industrial levels.
What is the Paris Climate Accord?
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Who is Tung Tung Tung Sahur?
This combustible hydrocarbon liquid, also known as paraffin, is a vital component of jet fuel and is a highly pollutive unclean energy source.
What is kerosene?
Similar to a hammer, the Chair of the committee keeps order and punctuates committee by wielding this special tool.
What is a gavel?
Name two of these ten countries, who serve as non-permanent members of the UN organ with legal enforcement power.
What are Denmark, Greece, Pakistan, Panama, Somalia, Bahrain, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Latvia, and Liberia?
This document, produced in 2002 at the United Nations International Conference on Financing for Development hosted in Mexico, required many wealthy countries to contribute domestic funds to development projects abroad and to encourage private sector organizations to do the same.
What is the Monterrey Consensus?
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Who is Ms. Frida Lida Fernandez?
This 2021 meeting was the first time in history that the UN convened over 35 countries to make a collective financial commitment to funding the Green Energy Transition.
+100 Bonus Points: The city in which this meeting took place.
What is the United Nations High-Level Dialogue on Energy?
Bonus: Where is New York City?
The delegate whose motion for a moderated caucus passes reserves these privileges.
What are first/last speaker's rights?
The United Nations has this many member states, plus two non-voting permanent observers.
Bonus: Name the two observer states.
Bonus: The Holy See (The Vatican) and the State of Palestine.
This UN agency established the Sustainable Energy Hub, which aims to connect experts, investors, governments, and development partners in pursuit of expanding clean energy access.
What is the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)?
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Who is Kaelen?
This country, which recently hosted COP29, has historically been heavily reliant on oil and gas industries for energy and economic output. It seeks to tap into its sunny and windy climate to move away from oil and gas towards renewable technologies.
Where is Azerbaijan?
This long and cumbersome method of voting on a resolution requires the committee to vote, in order, on every single clause in the entire resolution.
What is Division of the Question?
The powers and responsibilities of the United Nations Security Council are delineated in this Article of the United Nations Charter.
What is Article 23?
This UN specialized agency, created in 1957 as a response to a newfound technology with global implications, now works to monitor the use of that technology as an energy source.
What is the International Atomic Energy Agency?
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What is speed typing?
This sub-organization of the United Nations, also known as the Brundtland Commission, defined sustainable development as “the ability to ensure humanity needs the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs" in their 1987 report.
What is the World Commission on Environment and Development?
This form of debate could be used if the committee wanted to gauge everybody's opinion on a specific topic.
What is a Straw Poll?
His excellency is a member of the Portuguese Socialist Party and holds an important office in the United Nations.
Who is Secretary-General António Guterres?
The 2011 UN initiative, Sustainable Energy For All (SEforALL), calls for universal access to modern energy by 2030. It was announced by this Secretary-General.
Who is Ban Ki-Moon?
This insular Celtic language was the dominant language of the Northern European nation from where Mr. Caleb originates.
What is Scottish Gaelic?