Sustainable energy: Learning from the success stories

Sharing good examples is the key to change SEforALL’s Rachel Kyte tells World Energy Focus

No one's saying moving the world further towards more sustainable energy practices is going to be straightforward. Yet we can make it a lot easier simply by talking to each other, learning from the world's best examples and adapting them for use elsewhere, says Rachel Kyte, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Chief Executive Office of Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL). This was ahead of the UNSEforALL Forum that took place 3-5 April in New York. "You need to marshal the evidence, benchmark progress and then tell the stories," she says. "The stories of success don't travel as fast as the stories of failure—and people don't necessarily know, from jurisdiction to jurisdic