Sentences with phrase «access to modern energy»

The relationship between access to modern energy services and quality of life is well established.

It tracks progress toward universal access to modern energy, doubling the rate of energy efficiency improvements and doubling the share of renewable energy consumption in the global energy mix.

No energy system will be sustainable without global access to modern energy services, reliable and affordable supplies, and reduction of environmental impact.

There are, after all, a large number of people who still don't have access to modern energy services.

There's strong — and to a large extent justified — resistance to new carbon commitments in India, for example, where hundreds of millions of people lack access to any modern energy sources, let alone clean ones.

To get a visceral feel for the moral argument behind spreading access to modern energy sources (which can include fossil fuels), see my piece on a knife fight in the Himalayas over a pile of firewood.

«Lack of access to modern energy services is a serious hindrance to economic and social development and must be overcome if the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are to be achieved,» the IEA contends.

Conde said access to modern energy would be a major priority adding that he would also develop a roadmap for energy, which is key to industrialisation.

These three billion people, in fact, have so little access to modern energy that they are forced to cook, heat and light their homes using methods harmful to their health.

Addressing energy poverty is a key step to alleviating poverty — with the I.E.A. noting that an additional 700 million people need to gain access to modern energy services by 2015 if the UN's millennium development poverty alleviation goal is to be met (halving world poverty).

Moomaw and Mihaela Papa, a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard Law School, sent me a short piece proposing ways to invigorate the faltering climate treaty process by shifting the focus from confrontations over emissions to collaborative work encouraging access to modern energy choices while limiting environmental harms.

It also explores the possibility of providing universal access to modern energy carriers for the households of the Asia - Pacific by adopting a low - carbon pathway.

And with large segments of the developing world without access to modern forms of energy, Mr. Annan says that meeting the UN Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving, by 2015, the proportion of the world's population living on less than $ 1 a day would depend on providing these people with access to modern energy services for their basic needs and for income generation.

The world has work to do to meet Sustainable Energy for All's goals of reaching 100 percent access to modern energy, doubling renewable energy, and doubling improvement in energy efficiency by 2030.

Women in households without access to modern energy dedicate on average 1.4 hours a day collecting wood and women also spend several hours each day cooking using traditional stoves, and are thereby the most impact by household air pollution.

The International Energy Agency, for instance, defines access to modern energy services as minimal household access to electricity (enough to, say, charge a cellphone, a couple of light bulbs, and a small computer).

Plentiful access to modern energy is an essential prerequisite for human development and for decoupling development from nature.

Often, the poor have not been afforded access to modern energy services due to governance reasons as much as technological or economic reasons... The smaller project size associated with distributed clean energy removes the ability of governing elites to centralize and control resources and limits opportunities for corruption.

The third edition of the GTF provides an evidence - based look at progress at the regional, country, and international level toward ensuring universal access to modern energy services, doubling the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix, and doubling the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency.

They argue that increasing access to modern energy, through expanded electrification and improved cooking facilities, is an effective target, which reduces deaths and disease from indoor air pollution and provides other welfare benefits.

By knitting fuels out of the excess CO2 in the air, this new bioreactor could help mitigate planet - warming pollution problems while bringing cleaner fuels to people who do not currently have access to modern energy.

The Sustainable Development Scenario offers an integrated way to achieve a range of energy - related goals crucial for sustainable economic development: climate stabilisation, cleaner air and universal access to modern energy, while also reducing energy security risks.

The close links between energy and development, assessing today's global picture for access to modern energy, the strategies and technologies that can enable countries to achieve energy for all by 2030, and the ways in which reliable energy can move communities from poverty towards prosperity.

But the current proposed indicator for measuring universal access to modern energy is the IEA's best guesses for the number of people consuming at least 100 kilowatt - hours per year.

Outlines an integrated approach to achieving internationally agreed objectives on climate change, air quality and universal access to modern energy.

The first SEforALL Global Tracking Framework was released in 2013 and identified indicators that track progress toward the SEforALL objectives of universal access to modern energy, doubling the rate of energy efficiency improvements and doubling the share of renewable energy consumption in the global energy mix.

Adele C. Morris, Policy Director of the Climate and Energy Economics project at Brookings Institution, agrees with the assessment paper authors» assessments that increasing access to modern energy is valuable, while expanding renewable energy is not.

It focuses on how to move further, faster in the coming five years towards the delivery of SEforALL's three, 2030 objectives: ensure universal access to modern energy services; double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency; and double the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix.

According to ONE, some 70 % of Africans don't have access to modern energy.

Having played a core role in putting universal access to modern energy services at the heart of the SDGs and Paris Agreement, SEforALL is stepping up to help partners to take rapid, tangible action on those promises.

How can developing countries, especially middle - income countries, dramatically scale up energy use, and provide access to modern energy services to the billions who lack them, while keeping GHG emissions within the global goal of limiting dangerous temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius, or even better 1.5 degrees?

FAO promotes the use of renewable energies and works to ensure access to modern energy services across the food chain.

It presents detailed country - level and global data that outline the scale of the challenges ahead as countries try to meet the three objectives of the Sustainable Energy for All Initiative: providing universal access to modern energy, doubling the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix, and doubling the rate of improvement in energy efficiency — all by 2030.

As such, the IEA's new Sustainable Development Scenario, which presents an integrated approach to achieving the main energy - related SDG targets on climate change, air quality and access to modern energy, will add a water dimension to this analysis this year.

Launched in September 2011 by UN Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon, SE4All has three main objectives by 2030: to ensure universal access to modern energy services, to double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency, and to double the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix.

Introduced in the World Energy Outlook 2017, the IEA's SDS sets out a pathway to achieve the key energy related components of the United Nations Sustainable Development agenda: universal access to modern energy by 2030, urgent action to tackle climate change - in line with the Paris agreement, and measures to improve air quality.

Access to modern energy services is an important element for reducing poverty and improving the lives of the world's poorest.

Approximately 3 billion people around the world lack access to modern energy, and cook over open flames that billow...

Energy poverty is spread across the developing world, but it is particularly severe in sub-Saharan Africa, where more than 620 million people live without access to electricity and for those who do have access to modern energy, very high prices, insufficiency and unreliability is a constant plague.

The IEA's Sustainable Development Scenario (SDS) describes a pathway for the global energy sector that is compatible with Paris Agreement goals, while also achieving universal access to modern energy and substantially reducing air pollution.

Along the way, we will reap multiple co-benefits such as improved air quality and health, access to modern energy services for the poor and energy security for all nations.

Some estimates calculate that the use of currently available energy efficiency measures could result in the delivery of universal access to modern energy services using 50 % — 85 % less energy than prevailing estimates say is required.