The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA) is pleased to announce its call for applications for the 2015 UN-DESA Grant on Energy for Sustainable Development.

The Grant seeks to advance implementation in energy for sustainable development, encourage scientific and technological innovations in energy, and foster leadership initiatives and innovative actions that improve access to modern energy services, increase efficient use of energy and enhance availability of new and renewable energy and advanced energy technologies, while addressing economic, social and environmental sustainability.

The Grant is a follow-up to a Rio+20 call for disseminating success stories and building capacity to replicate and scale up best practices in sustainable development.

It carries a cash award in the amount of one million US dollars. For more background information, please click here.

Applications must be submitted online in English by 31 March 2015

For questions, please contact us at poweringthefuture@un.org

https://poweringthefuture.un.org/apply