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.
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.
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).
Access to modern energy services is an important element for reducing poverty and improving the lives of the world's poorest.
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.
FAO promotes the use of renewable energies and works to ensure
access to modern energy services across the food chain.
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.
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?
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.
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.
There are, after all, a large number of people who still don't have
access to modern energy services.
No energy system will be sustainable without global
access to modern energy services, reliable and affordable supplies, and reduction of environmental impact.
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).
To that end, the United Nations has called for universal
access to modern energy services by 2030.
«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.
Not exact matches
Hosted by Sustainable
Energy for All (SEforALL), the Forum is focused on addressing the key challenges in delivering universal energy access to the billion people globally who are still living without basic modern energy services, such as electricity, and the three billion who lack access to clean fuels and technologies for co
Energy for All (SEforALL), the Forum is focused on addressing the key challenges in delivering universal
energy access to the billion people globally who are still living without basic modern energy services, such as electricity, and the three billion who lack access to clean fuels and technologies for co
energy access to the billion people globally who are still living without basic
modern energy services, such as electricity, and the three billion who lack access to clean fuels and technologies for co
energy services, such as electricity, and the three billion who lack
access to clean fuels and technologies for cooking.
The main objectives are:
to become able
to provide reliable, affordable, clean and sustainable
energy access to the 2 - 3 billion people excluded from
modern energy services and
to promote and support the deployment of low - carbon
energy technologies and systems worldwide, especially
energy efficiency and renewable
energy.
2030 is the same year SDG7 has targeted
to «Ensure universal
access to affordable, reliable and
modern energy services.»
In declaring the Decade, the U.N. has urged its members
to help «make universal
access to sustainable
modern energy services a priority.»
Energy wonks will gather in New York City on April 3 for the third annual Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) forum to discuss progress on SDG7, whose aim is «By 2030, [to] ensure universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services.&
Energy wonks will gather in New York City on April 3 for the third annual Sustainable
Energy for All (SE4All) forum to discuss progress on SDG7, whose aim is «By 2030, [to] ensure universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services.&
Energy for All (SE4All) forum
to discuss progress on SDG7, whose aim is «By 2030, [
to] ensure universal
access to affordable, reliable and
modern energy services.&
energy services.»
Modern energy access entails less a physical connection
to a grid than the availability of reliable and affordable
energy services necessary
to sustain a dignified life.
Economic policies aimed at sustainable development can bring a variety of co-benefits including utilizing new
energy technologies and improved
access to adequate and affordable
modern energy services.
By reducing the amount of
energy required
to provide
modern energy services,
energy efficiency is an important — and in some cases necessary — driver of
energy access.