Sentences with phrase «with access to modern energy»
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.
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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).
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.
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.
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.
Since Estimote's mesh networking is built - on low - energy Bluetooth, that lends it compatibility with any modern smartphone app, and the beacons» general purpose input / output ports mean that you can use the mesh network to access third - party devices.