2023-06-06 15:41:46
Some 675 million people live without electricity worldwide, the vast majority of them in sub-Saharan Africa, according to a report published Tuesday by several organizations, including the World Health Organization and the World Bank.
According to this report, the world is not on track to achieve the sustainable development goal adopted by UN member countries in 2015 to ensure clean and affordable energy for all by 2030.
The world is facing “a recent slowdown in the global pace of electrification,” World Bank vice president Guangzhe Chen said in a statement. And although the number of people living without electricity has almost halved over the past decade, 675 million people were still without it in 2021.
About 80% of them live in sub-Saharan Africa, where the lack of access to electricity remained almost identical to the situation in 2010. “As the transition to clean energy is progressing faster than many realize, much remains to be done to provide sustainable, secure and affordable access to modern energy services to the billions of people who are deprived of them,” said the Executive Director of the International Energy Agency, Fatih Birol, in the joint press release.
Progress has been made on certain points, such as the increase in the rate of use of renewable energies in the electricity sector, but they are insufficient to achieve the UN objectives.
Citing data from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), the report also shows that international public financial flows for clean energy in low- and middle-income countries have declined since the period before the coronavirus pandemic. Covid-19. According to the report, growing debt and rising energy prices are clouding prospects for achieving universal access to clean cooking and electricity.
According to current projections, 1.9 billion people will be without clean cooking methods and 660 million will not have access to electricity in 2030 without new measures. According to the WHO, 3.2 million people die each year from diseases caused by the use of polluting fuels and technologies.
Some 675 million people live without electricity worldwide, the vast majority of them in sub-Saharan Africa, according to a report published Tuesday by several organizations, including the World Health Organization and the World Bank.
According to this report, the world is not on track to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal…
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