There are still 675 million people without electricity in the world
A total of 675 million people worldwide lived without electricity in 2021, according to a new report released on Tuesday.
A new report released by the International Energy Agency , the International Renewable Energy Agency, the United Nations Statistics Division, the World Bank and the World Health Organization says that most of the 675 million people without access to electricity is found in sub-Saharan Africa.
This figure is about half that of 2010, according to the report, when more than 1 billion people worldwide were without electricity. About 80 percent of people without access to electricity were in sub-Saharan Africa in 2010, according to the report's authors, the same percentage as in 2021.
“Although the clean energy transition is moving faster than many think, there is still much work to be done to ensure sustainable, secure and affordable access to modern energy services for the billions of people who lack them” IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol said on Tuesday.
The report highlighted another significant problem: public funds to support clean energy in poorer countries, such as those in sub-Saharan Africa, are declining. Meanwhile, rising debt levels and soaring energy prices are making it even more difficult to bring affordable electricity to those areas.
According to the report, by 2030, 1.9 billion people will still lack access to clean cooking methods and 660 million will lack access to electricity.
"Clean technologies for cooking in homes and reliable electricity in healthcare facilities can play a crucial role in protecting the health of the most vulnerable populations," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday.
Last month, Africa's largest lender by assets, Standard Bank Group, said $700 billion in financing would be needed over the next decade to expand green energy development and the mining of key metals for the energy transition, such as cobalt, copper and lithium, if renewables are to be part of the electricity solution.
Thus the Western world engages in “Green” energy while a chunk of the world's population has absolutely no access to energy, be it green, grey, black or rainbow. Obviously this has an important impact on the quality of life, but you won't see much discussion of it in the chic living rooms behind the current green wave. In the end they are not racist, but they care very little about the poor.
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