Sentences with phrase «gain access to modern energy»

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).

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Despite positive gains in a number of countries, the IEA's World Energy Outlook 2016 concluded that the pace of progress, scale of investment, and breadth and depth of capacity is not yet enough to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal of ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all by 2030 (Energy Outlook 2016 concluded that the pace of progress, scale of investment, and breadth and depth of capacity is not yet enough to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal of ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all by 2030 (energy for all by 2030 (SDG7).

UC Berkeley's Catherine Wolfram and coauthors have identified likely massive, non-incremental, and order of magnitude surges in energy consumption as poor people gain access to modern appliances.