Progress on a global goal to provide everyone on the planet with clean power and cooking by 2030 is expected to slow, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and energy price spikes caused by the Ukraine war, international organizations warned on Wednesday.
Efforts have inched forward over the past decade — but meeting the targets — viewed as key to protecting the climate and human health — will require far greater political will and funding, they said in a new report.
The annual assessment of Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7), which covers energy access, projected that 670 million people will remain without electricity by 2030, while 2.1 billion people will still lack clean ways of cooking.