European Sustainable Development Week Events on SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy

Out of the over 3,600 events that will be taking place all over Europe during the ESDW 2019, 207 events currently address SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy, which seeks to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all. To find out  more about the ESDW Events dealing with SDG 7 please visit the Activities section on the ESDW website.

Out of the over 3,600 events that will be taking place all over Europe during the ESDW 2019, 207 events currently address SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy, which seeks to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.

SDG 7 aims to:

  1. By 2030, ensure universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services.
  2. By 2030, increase substantially the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix.
  3. By 2030, double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency.

Progress being made towards achieving SDG 7

  • Ensuring access to affordable, reliable and modern energy for all has come one step closer due to recent progress in electrification, particularly in LDCs, and improvements in industrial energy efficiency. However, national priorities and policy ambitions still need to be strengthened to put the world on track to meet the energy targets for 2030.
    • From 2000 to 2016, the proportion of the global population with access to electricity increased from 78 per cent to 87 per cent, with the absolute number of people living without electricity dipping to just below 1 billion.
    • In the least developed countries, the proportion of the people with access to electricity more than doubled between 2000 and 2016.
    • In 2016, 3 billion people (41 per cent of the world’s population) were still cooking with polluting fuel and stove combinations.
    • The share of renewables in final energy consumption increased modestly, from 17.3 per cent in 2014 to 17.5 per cent in 2015. Yet only 55 per cent of the renewable share was derived from modern forms of renewable energy.
    • Global energy intensity decreased by 2.8 per cent from 2014 to 2015, double the rate of improvement seen between 1990 and 2010.

To find out  more about the ESDW Events dealing with SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy, please visit the Activities section on the ESDW website.

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