Sentences with phrase «achieved universal access to electricity»

Over the last three decades, according to the World Bank, China has achieved universal access to electricity — 600 million people have been lifted out of poverty and connected to the electricity grid.

Key among NDC's 2016 manifesto promises in the sector includes increasing the stock of power generation assets, developing more sustainable power sources, encouraging energy conservation, increasing generation capacity in excess of 5,000 MW by 2021 and achieving universal access to electricity by 2025.

As part of its New Deal on Energy for Africa, the African Development Bank has set the ambitious goal of achieving universal access to electricity in Africa by 2025.

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But Richenda Van Leeuwen, the U.N. Foundation's new point woman on energy poverty, said leaders widely recognize the impossibility of achieving universal primary school education, reducing child mortality or other development targets without access to electricity.

It is now well understood that universal electricity access by 2030 (a core part of U.N. Sustainable Development Goal 7 - SDG 7) can only be achieved if decentralized renewable energy (DRE)-- green micro-grids and rooftop solar paired with storage and ultra-efficiency appliances — gets adequate finance to reach scale quickly.

In a country where 244 million have no electricity and 819 no access to clean cooking facilities, it is impossible to find a solution without coal being part of the energy mix — Coal is essential to global efforts to achieving universal energy access.»