At a press briefing an the sidelines of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Summit in New York, the IEA launched a new report in co-operation with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO): Ending Energy Poverty: How to make modern energy access universal, a special excerpt of IEA World Energy Outlook (WEO) 2010.
Over 20% of the global population – 1.4 billion people – lack access to electricity. Some 40% of the global population – 2.7 billion people – rely today on the traditional use of biomass for cooking. These are some of the major findings of the joint analysis by the IEA, UNDP and UNIDO.
Lack of access to modern energy services is a serious hindrance to economic and social development and must be overcome if the UN MDGs are to be achieved. Worse, without additional dedicated policies the problem will persist and even deepen in the longer term. This joint report investigates the energy-access challenge and estimates the number of people who need to gain access to modern energy services and the scale of the investments required in order to achieve the goal of universal access to modern energy services by 2030. It also discusses the implications of meeting such a target for the global energy market, the environment and health. The full WEO-2010 will be released on 9 November.
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