IEA: The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals may not be achieved

Without accelerated ambition, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by the United Nations related to energy access, renewable energy and energy efficiency will not be achieved
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IEA: The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals may not be achieved

This is the conclusion
reached by the International Energy Agency (IEA).
The findings show that achieving the Sustainable Development Goals is essential
to reduce poverty, improve health and ensure environmental sustainability.

The IEA notes that global progress by 2030 is insufficient to ensure access to affordable, reliable and sustainable modern energy
.

A new IEA report says about 1 billion people still lack access to electricity, and even more
people in sub-Saharan Africa are without electricity than in 2000.

In addition, the IEA believes that about 2.
8 billion people still rely on polluting fuels for cooking, a number that has not changed
since 2000.

Without greater ambition, 2.
3 billion people will still be unable to achieve clean cooking in 2030, with serious health, environmental and social consequences
, the IEA said.

While the share of modern renewables in global final energy consumption has been growing steadily over the past few decades, reaching nearly 10% by 2015, this share needs to double to 21% by 2030 and further improvements in energy efficiency
must be made, the report shows.

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