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Unlike the Millennium Development Goals, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development includes an explicit goal for energy — Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7, to “ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all”. Access to modern energy plays a major role in economic structural transformation — a critical issue both for the least developed countries (LDCs) and for the 2030 Agenda more generally. This year’s edition of UNCTAD’s Least Developed Countries Report focuses on transformational energy access for the LDCs, where 62 per cent of people have no access to electricity, compared with 10 per cent across other developing countries. Today, the majority of people worldwide who lack access to electricity live in LDCs — a proportion that has grown steadily from less than one third in 1990. Importantly, this year’s Report finds that “energy for all” in LDCs requires more than access to energy for basic household needs. It requires that access to energy in LDCs also serves productive capacities directly, by powering the structural transformation of LDC economies and the development of more productive, modern activities and sectors with adequate and reliable energy supplies. Structural transformation, in turn, has a role in increasing energy access, by generating sufficient additional demand for electricity for productive uses to make viable the infrastructure investments required for universal access more broadly. Yet strengthening this energy-transformation nexus remains a massive challenge, given that installed generating capacity per person in LDCs is barely one twelfth of that even in other developing countries, and one fiftieth of that in developed countries. The LDCs are the battleground on which the 2030 Agenda will be won or lost. The central role of access to modern energy in achieving the other SDGs means that meeting SDG 7 will be central to the success or failure of the 2030 Agenda as a whole. It is our intention that this Report will serve as a valuable input to the deliberations of the 2018 High-level Political Forum, which will review progress on Goal 7. Greater international support and more concerted collective action towards realizing transformational energy access in the least developed countries could be key catalysts for implementing the entire 2030 Agenda
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International Journal of Engineering
Impact of Affordable and Clean Energy (SDG 7) on Signifcant SDGs2021 •
Energy is considered to be a vital part of the progress and prosperity of a nation. However, there are some parts of the world like South Africa, Nepal, Pakistan, India and other developing countries where some parts of people have do not access to electricity. Some of the people in the world even in Pakistan do not live a quality life and living theirs below the poverty line. There are people who do have access to electricity and quality education. They live their lives unhygienically and women are the victims of gender inequality. For this purpose, the United Nation gathers around and reached on common goals which are also called universal goals for the people and for the benefit of the planet, which are named as Sustainable Development Goals. These goals are agenda for 2030 that we together are going to achieve till 2030. One of the goals is Access to Energy of Sustainable Development Goals. SDG 7 stands for affordable and clean energy. Pakistan has remote areas, far away from th...
Spotlight on Sustainable Development 2017
SDG 7: Peoples’ power or how to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all2017 •
Energy is one of humanity’s most basic needs and is rightly recognized in the 2030 Agenda as central to human progress. The global hunger for power seems insatiable and many countries are pursuing power sector development at any cost. The cost will thus be borne by the next generation. The existing mindset to achieve SDG 7, also in relation to the other SDGs, is inadequate. SDG 7 targets - to ensure universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services, - to increase substantially the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix, and - to double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency will require investment beyond business as usual by households, government at all levels, and businesses large and small. While the role of business is crucial and can be constructive, vested corporate interests are also working to undermine this goal.
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There is a new paradigm of energy transition emerging. In several important sectors, the transition is now endogenous, driven by the achieved or imminent competitiveness of low-carbon technologies. This is the case notably for the power sector, energy efficiency, and increasingly for segments of the personal transport sector. However, other sectors such as industry and heavy transport are lagging behind. These sectors are particularly relevant for developing countries, which have large unmet material and freight transport needs. The whole international policy environment needs to evolve to reflect the new paradigm. International funding, research, and demonstration needs to shift toward shifting the frontier of decarbonization options into the hard to abate sectors.
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An adequate energy supply is the key to a nation’s economic development. This is clearly evident in terms of economic growth. Economic growth can only be stabilised or promoted when sufficient energy is available. The study of past development patterns shows that the development of energy demand is often linked to the gross domestic product: when gross domestic product increases there is also an increasing demand for energy. However, it can also be stated that the secure access to energy can contribute to an increase in the gross domestic product or to an increase in per capita income. Empirical studies show that the income of the population increased between 9 and 30 per cent, for example, after the arrival of electrification to rural areas of Bangladesh (Thomas et al. 2017: 277).
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