Mandates

Mandates that Support the Sustainable Energy for the Americas Program

All OAS Member States invariably recognize that access to energy is of paramount importance to economic growth, development, and poverty alleviation. At the 37th General Assembly held in Panama City in June 2007, the Member States approved the Declaration of Panama: Energy for Sustainable Development AG/DEC. 52 (XXXVII-O/07), 5 June 2007, in which they unequivocally recognize as an essential goal the need to generate and strengthen regional markets for the use of cleaner and renewable energy, and the exchange of information and experiences pertaining to sustainable energy by member states.

Numerous additional mandates emanated from several bodies of the Inter-American System in general, and the OAS in particular, support the activities of the Department of Sustainable Development’s Energy and Climate Change Division. These are issued by the Presidents and the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Hemisphere through the Forum of the Americas process and the OAS General Assembly respectively. These include the following:

a) Summits of the Americas Process. Paragraph 21 of the Plan of Action of the First Summit of the Americas held in Miami in 1994.

b) Ministerial Meetings. Report of the First inter-American Meeting of Ministers and High-Level Authorities on Sustainable Development within the Framework of CIDI, AG/RES. 2312 (XXXVII-O/07).

c) Strategic Plan for Partnership for Integral Development 2006-2009. Strategic Plan for Partnership for Integral Development 2006-2009 Adopted by the General Assembly at the fourth plenary session, held on June 6, 2006 (AG/RES. 2201 (XXXVI-O/06).

d) General Assembly. AG/RES. 2253 (XXXVI-O/06) Support for the Use of New and Renewable Energy Sources.