Sentences with phrase «modern energy services by»

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.

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In the same way that the energy industry today is mistakenly identified with «Big Oil» (Exxon, Chevron, et al.), when it is in fact conducted predominantly by smaller independent companies most readers will have never heard of, modern capitalism is not largely the purview of Apple and Walmart, but rather of small, privately owned businesses with less than one hundred employees providing services or products the public wants or needs in order to support the families of the owners and provide jobs for their workers.

b by 2030 expand infrastructure and upgrade technology for supplying modern and sustainable energy services for all in developing countries, particularly LDCs and SIDS

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 coEnergy 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 coenergy 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 coenergy services, such as electricity, and the three billion who lack access to clean fuels and technologies for cooking.

But modern software and data systems take what used to be a building - by - building approach and spread it across thousands of sites into a reliable, scalable virtual power plant, according to Sarah McAuley, senior director of marketing for EnerNOC, an energy software and services firm in Boston.

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.

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.»

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.

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.