The EGM falls under the strategic framework of UNESCWA on strengthening the capacity of Governments of the Member States on mainstreaming the energy-related SDGs and Paris Agreement into their national development plans and help them demonstrate progress, develop, implement, and monitor fact-based sustainable energy action plans.

This EGM intends to disseminate the outcomes of the “Arab Regional Report on tracking progress toward sustainable energy”, to stimulate the discussion on global and regional energy market development and their impact on the Arab region, identifying the differences and similarities between Arab countries’ approaches and understandings of sustainable energy today and in the future within the context of sustainable development Goal 7 and the Agenda 2030.