Sentences with phrase «modern energy services»

Millions of people globally live without the benefit of 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.

We can not simply sit back and wait for the world's poorest regions to become sufficiently rich to afford modern energy services.

South Africa still struggles to ensure that all citizens enjoy modern energy services, just one example of how the U.N.'s International Year of Sustainable Energy for All aims to bring modern energy resources to the billions who lack it

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 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.

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.

In declaring the Decade, the U.N. has urged its members to help «make universal access to sustainable modern energy services a priority.»

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

Historically, energy modernization has been driven by a strong public commitment to expand modern energy services, ensure equitable energy access, and achieve broader economic development goals.

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).

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.

This policy document focuses on the concept of energy security and the link between securing modern energy services and sustainable development, in light of the UN Secretary - General initiative «Sustainable Energy for All» and the goals of sustainable development post 2015.

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.

Without reliable modern energy services hospitals and schools can not function and business and industry can not...

A hard look at the issue of energy poverty, including a new «energy development index», a handy measure of how far countries have advanced along the road to energy maturity in the areas of per capita energy use, the use of modern energy services and rates of electrification.

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.

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).

«Renewable sources of energy can be used to provide modern energy services to the poor, contribute to meeting the increasing global energy demand, reduce air pollution, mitigate climate change and delay the eventual fossil - fuel depletion,» he adds.

«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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

2030 is the same year SDG7 has targeted to «Ensure universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services.»

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.

All of this of course, contributing to the laudable efforts to chip away at the inequalities between rich and poor, rural and urban and connecting the unconnected to clean, modern energy services.

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

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

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.

As the poorest of the world's population emerges from poverty, and as lower - income populations acquire the types of modern energy services, we'll use substantially more, not less, energy in the coming decades.

Additional co-benefits are country - specific but often include air pollution abatement, balance of trade improvement, provision of modern energy services to rural areas and employment (high agreement, much evidence).

Additional co-benefits are country - specific but often include air pollution abatement, balance of trade improvement, provision of modern energy services to rural areas and employment