Sentences with phrase «of access to modern energy»

«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.

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The 2012 Global Energy Assessment, for example, elucidated multiple pathways that could simultaneously achieve decarbonization at the same time as expanding energy access to the millions of people currently living without modern energy and electricity, and improving public health by reducing air pollEnergy Assessment, for example, elucidated multiple pathways that could simultaneously achieve decarbonization at the same time as expanding energy access to the millions of people currently living without modern energy and electricity, and improving public health by reducing air pollenergy access to the millions of people currently living without modern energy and electricity, and improving public health by reducing air pollenergy and electricity, and improving public health by reducing air pollution.

The purchase of a mountain lot, managed through RCR Realty, offers ownership of a high energy efficient state of the art mountain modern, semi detached home (breathtaking views and easy access to the slopes included).

There's strong — and to a large extent justified — resistance to new carbon commitments in India, for example, where hundreds of millions of people lack access to any modern energy sources, let alone clean ones.

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The adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015, and the adoption of SDG 7.1 specifically — the goal to ensure access to affordable, reliable, and modern energy for all by 2030 — established a new level of political recognition for energy's central role in development.

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 Penergy 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 Penergy and environment scholars say in a new report, Our High - Energy PEnergy Planet.

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 Energizing Finance research, done in partnership with the World Bank Group, Climate Policy Initiative, the African Development Bank, Practical Action Consulting and E3 Analytics, delivers a strong wake - up call to the levels of finance flowing to close energy access gaps, but also creates a roadmap of opportunities which, if finance is more strategically directed, will allow us to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goal 7, and provide affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all by 2030.

But the current proposed indicator for measuring universal access to modern energy is the IEA's best guesses for the number of people consuming at least 100 kilowatt - hours per year.

It tracks progress toward universal access to modern energy, doubling the rate of energy efficiency improvements and doubling the share of renewable energy consumption in the global energy mix.

Billions of people still lack access to modern energy and technology as they struggle to improve their living standards and reduce the negative health impacts of energy poverty, while billions of others enjoy the conveniences of modern life.

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.

According to ONE, some 70 % of Africans don't have access to modern energy.

It also explores the possibility of providing universal access to modern energy carriers for the households of the Asia - Pacific by adopting a low - carbon pathway.

This Carbon Tracker report shows how rural communities in Africa and India suffering most from a lack of modern energy can exploit the falling costs of renewable power, to access electricity without the need for expensive grid transmission networks.

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.

Wherever there is subsistence living, it is usually because there is little or no access to modern, reliable forms of energy.

Providing access to reliable, affordable energy supplies and modern technologies is essential to lifting billions of people out of grinding poverty.

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?

One of those goals, SDG 7, calls for us to secure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all by 2030.

Business as usual scenarios are projecting that by 2030, over 600 million people across sub-saharan Africa will remain without access to modern forms of energy.

LONDON, 13th November 2014 — Rural communities in Africa and India suffering most from a lack of modern energy can exploit the falling costs of renewable power, to access electricity without the need for expensive grid transmission networks, new research by the Carbon Tracker Initiative (CTI) shows.

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.

The world has work to do to meet Sustainable Energy for All's goals of reaching 100 percent access to modern energy, doubling renewable energy, and doubling improvement in energy efficiency byEnergy for All's goals of reaching 100 percent access to modern energy, doubling renewable energy, and doubling improvement in energy efficiency byenergy, doubling renewable energy, and doubling improvement in energy efficiency byenergy, and doubling improvement in energy efficiency byenergy efficiency by 2030.

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

It presents detailed country - level and global data that outline the scale of the challenges ahead as countries try to meet the three objectives of the Sustainable Energy for All Initiative: providing universal access to modern energy, doubling the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix, and doubling the rate of improvement in energy efficiency — all byEnergy for All Initiative: providing universal access to modern energy, doubling the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix, and doubling the rate of improvement in energy efficiency — all byenergy, doubling the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix, and doubling the rate of improvement in energy efficiency — all byenergy in the global energy mix, and doubling the rate of improvement in energy efficiency — all byenergy mix, and doubling the rate of improvement in energy efficiency — all byenergy efficiency — all by 2030.

Modern energy access entails less a physical connection to a grid than the availability of reliable and affordable energy services necessary to sustain a dignified life.

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.

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.

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

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 compEnergy 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 compenergy services as minimal household access to electricity (enough to, say, charge a cellphone, a couple of light bulbs, and a small computer).

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).

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.

The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda aim for universal access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy and infrastructure by 2030.

Billions of people still lack access to electricity, clean cooking and other forms of modern, clean energy.

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.

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.

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.

This year, the report introduces the Sustainable Development Scenario, which offers an integrated way to achieve a range of goals: climate stabilization, cleaner air and universal access to modern energy.