Sentences with phrase «provide 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.

Taking advantage of new technologies to provide modern energy services to the 1.3 billion people who still have no electricity, and 2.6 billion who lack modern cooking facilities, is also crucial for development.

«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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.