It was jointly produced by IRENA in collaboration with the International Energy Agency (IEA), the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO).
The report finds that 91 percent of the global population had access to electricity in 2022.
Still, leaving 685 million people still without access – 10 million people more than in 2021.
Similarly, while 74 percent of the world’s population had access to clean cooking technologies in 2022.
2.1 billion people still relied on polluting fuels, with only modest progress expected by 2030.
Renewables accounted for 18.7% of total final energy consumption worldwide in 2021.
It is barely higher than the 16.7 percent in 2015; and the world is not on course to double energy efficiency by 2030.
This is having improved by only 0.8 percent in 2021.
International public financial flows in support of clean energy in developing countries rebounded in 2022 to USD 15.4 billion.