Sentences with phrase «providing modern energy access»

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.

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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.

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 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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.