Is a well-functioning, financially sound power sector constitutes a solid foundation for the energy transition. ESMAP will support countries in least cost planning; developing competitive markets and power trade; removing energy subsidies and other distortions; and designing regulation to ensure the sector maintains financial viability and service standards. New technologies, digital development, and declining costs of renewables & storage offer opportunities to accelerate the energy transition, but are also disrupting existing models, creating winners and losers. ESMAP will assist countries to design policies and regulations that enable entry of new service providers while helping utilities take advantage of new technology opportunities to improve quality of service; at the same time, ESMAP will help countries plan and manage the social and distributional impacts of change as the sector moves to a new decarbonized, decentralized and digitalized parad...

MY DEAR LEADER FROM CENTRAL KENYA AS YOU NORMALLY INTRODUCE YOURSELF, In response to current alarming trends of growing Tribalism,Nepotism,injustices,cult mediocrity,impunity ,Ethnicity,black mailing,Global xenophobia, racism and intolerance, violent misogyny, anti-Antisemitism and anti-Muslim hatred around the world, on 18 June, Secretary-General Antonio Gutters launched the   United Nations Strategy and Plan of Action on Hate Speech . The strategy recognizes that over the past 75 years, hate speech has been a precursor to atrocity crimes, including genocide, from Rwanda to Bosnia to Cambodia. As noted by the Secretary-General at the launch: Hate speech is in itself an attack on tolerance, inclusion, diversity and the very essence of our human rights norms and principles. More broadly, it undermines social cohesion, erodes shared values, and can lay the foundation for violence, setting back the cause of peace, stability, sustainable development and the fulfillment of human ri...