Sentences with phrase «still lack access»

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

Yet many women around the world still lack access to education.

Meanwhile 1.1 billion people still lack access to electricity globally, new demand is coming from electric mobility, digitalization, cooling and heating.

To achieve this ambitious goal — a billion people still lack access to electricity, three billion lack access to clean cooking - we need a massive energy transition that will also drive an economic transformation for all.

Of course, 300 million Indians still lack access to electricity, while hundreds of millions more experience frequent shortages due to an unreliable grid.

Noting that in the developing countries some 1.6 billion people still lack access to electricity and about 2.4 billion continue to rely on traditional biomass like fuelwood for cooking and heating, Annan calls for intensified efforts to promote renewable energy sources for the poor.

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.

Today, over 300 million people still lack access to reliable centralized electricity in this nation of 1.2 billion people.

As noted in the 2014 report, energy poverty remains a major global issue, as approximately 1.1 billion people still lack access to electricity worldwide.

And then there's the reality that several billion people still lack access to any reasonable energy choices.

The imagery also shows big dark gaps in populous places — reflecting the reality that some 1.3 billion people still lack access to electricity.

But there's a disturbing social issue that in some ways is even more heartbreaking: individuals who have the ability to read but still lack the access to a book.

He estimates that 12,000 children in poor neighborhoods still lack any access to a public pre-K program.

Let me take you to a corner of the globe where the majority of students drop out of school before the sixth grade and youth still lack access to free secondary education.

The U.N. met the goal of doubling access to water, but the world is behind in ensuring healthy water access: 2.5 billion people and almost 1 billion children still lack access to basic sanitation, and more than 2 million tons of human waste are released in waterways in developing countries on a daily basis, according to the International Fund for Agricultural Development.

LifeStraw Safe Water Fund People in Puerto Rico still lack access to clean drinking water — here you can send them individual filters or one large enough to supply a small village.

PlayStation 4 owners are still lacking access to the new service, for example.

Not exact matches

Since women still account for such a small fraction of senior leadership, lack of access to role models and «inappropriate image» are still cited as common career derailment factors for women, but not for men.

Founders still started out lacking the skills and experience to scale up a company, but they had newfound access to information that would help them gain those skills.

There is still a lack of access to safe drinking water, leading to preventable deaths.

Though they often lack access to sources and documents themselves, blogs can still be news sources even when they can't indulge in their own investigative journalism: they certainly can help promote a story that's getting lost in the shuffle or keep a fading story alive long after it's disappeared from cable news.

And you could still have in - person voting for those who lack access to the tech.

With mathematics still a young research field in Ecuador, Mena suffered from a lack of local access to certain areas of expertise, he admits.

Even where laws are progressive, many women and girls still suffer discrimination, experience violence, and lack access to vital health and legal services.

The number of people who lack access to clean water has been cut nearly in half since 2000, though at 550 million, or around 8 percent of the world's population, there is still much room for improvement.

In Africa, for example, the tried - and - true technologies of the Green Revolution are still lacking, along with access to good roads and fertilizer.

Amid all this talk of energy demand, the IEA also emphasises another of its estimates: 1.4 billion people across the world lack any access to electricity and 2.7 billion still use wood or other biomass to cook.

Open access from high impact medical journals is still lacking.

The basic package however still lacks the benefits of regular membership, which offers you to unlimited access to features.

Still, many people lacked internet access and therefore were unable to take advantage of the technology.

Still, we find clear, consistent barriers to charter school growth: a lack of access to affordable school buildings, increased competition among charter schools for students and resources, and a political backlash to the growing presence of charter schools.

At the moment, far too many students lack access to a high - quality education; still others are unable to achieve their full potential.

Even if they do, they may still lack the necessary tech experience to find and access these online training resources.

«And there's still millions of girls around the world who aren't getting an education, not just because of the lack of resources or not having access to schools... there are cultural barriers that are keeping young girls down.»

While Nook Tablet calls itself a tablet, it still lacks many tablet features and access to the wide swath of apps on Android Market.

The Onyx Note is not flawless either (also lacking Micro-SD and still no root access as far as I know), but at least it has a slightly more manageable 32 GB memory and an open (albeit currently non-rooted) Android system, allowing access to internal memory and possibly even use as external Screen via VNC.

Despite an abundance of free credit score offers, consumers still lack easy access to their FICO and Vantage scores, often the determining factor in credit approval.

Still, lack of capital access is among the main reasons preventing small businesses from growing big.

Although your bad credit or lack of a credit history might impede you from opening a regular free checking account, you still might be able to access a second chance checking account.

However, you'll still be able to get your complimentary breakfast in many of the hotels, so I wouldn't stress too much over the lack of lounge access.

While there are elements of the game, namely the clumsy user interface and inability to communicate gameplay mechanics properly, that indicate it was either too early to push the game out of Early Access or that the developers are lacking a little experience this is still a hugely worthwhile and fun shooter.

However, a lack of guidelines left players and developers with very different expectations as was seen in the reaction to a paid expansion being released for Ark: Survival Evolved while it was still in early access.

The Horus Heresy: Betrayal at Calth's lack of diversity is likely because it is still in early access, as even the steam page suggests that more unit types and game mode options are to come.

But many artists still lack information and access, especially those based outside of Harare.

The biggest handicap in rural poverty is lack of access to capital — even if new projects are enormously beneficial on even a standard cost / benefit analysis, they still do not get done.

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.

Still, 1.2 billion people today lack access to electricity connections and millions of households, businesses and community institutions receive poor and inadequate supplies of electricity services.

But about 110.6 million people still lacked electricity in 2014, as urban population growth had offset access gains.

More than one billion people globally lack access to electricity, and billions more still burn wood and dung for their basic energy needs whereas there is another segment of people who care less about the increasing earth's temperature and are sitting in a single room with their ACs on searching Yify Torrents Sites.

Beyond trying to make a profit, MKOPA serves an important role in rural Africa where there is poor access to the grid: Its solar home systems are the leading way to electrify rural areas in Kenya where more than 30 % of Kenyans still lack electricity access.