Sentences with phrase «modern energy access»

Yet, it's still some 14 times the kWh / cap / yr target for modern energy access.

Panel session one looked at the challenge of meeting SDG7 and the role of coal in providing modern energy access.

That report, an advance section of this year's World Energy Report, is called «Ending Energy Poverty: How to make modern energy access universal» and will be posted later today at the United Nations Development Program Web energy page.

Significant progress has been achieved towards modern energy access, increased energy efficiency and renewable energy, but much more is required to achieve the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) initiative goals by 2030, according to a new report published on Monday.

Drastically improved efforts to provide modern energy access to the poor opens up a new approach to development efforts and action on climate change, an international group of energy and environment scholars say in a new report, Our High - Energy Planet.

They argue that the current standard of 100kwh per person per year is inadequate and instead offer three alternative definitions that would be more suitable measures of modern energy access.

Todd Moss, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Fellow and Madeleine Gleave, both of the Center for Global Development, critically examine whether the International Energy Agency's definition of «modern energy access» is sufficient to lead a dignified life.

Drastically improved efforts to provide modern energy access to the poor opens up a new approach to development efforts and action on climate change, an international group of energy and environment scholars argue in a new report, Our High - Energy Planet.

Roger Pielke Jr., an environmental studies professor at the University of Colorado, has pointed out that the international community's definition of «modern energy access» tends to be pitiful — it means providing people with a mere 2.2 percent of the energy that the average American uses.

The current definition of modern energy access — 100 kilowatt - hours per person per year — is insufficient and presents an ambition gap with profound implications for human welfare and national economic growth.

The International Energy Agency defines «modern energy access» as 500 kWh / year per urban household, or about 100kWh per person.