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Tracking SDG 7: The Energy Progress Report 2024

June 18 , 2024 12 days 139 0
  • 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.
  • It is an increase of 25% compared to 2021.
  • 80% of flows directed to just 25 countries.

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