Selv om flere globalt set har fået adgang til energi er der stadig 1,3 milliarder mennesker i verden, der ikke har elektricitet, særligt i Afrika og Asien. Men elektricitet til alle betyder ikke nødvendigvis øget pres på klimaet, skriver det Internationale Energiagentur tirsdag.
PARIS, November 27, 2012: A global energy outlook cannot just talk about rich countries and ignore the other end of the spectrum, writes the International Energy Agency Tuesday.
This is why, for more than a decade, the World Energy Outlook (WEO) has published data and analysis on modern energy access for the poor.
Today, it does so again.
WEO 2012 finds that, despite progress in the past year, nearly 1.3 billion people have no access to electricity while 2.6 billion must use traditional fuels (such as wood, charcoal, tree leaves, crop residues and animal waste) to cook their food, breathing in noxious smoke as they do so.
Ten countries – four in developing Asia and six in sub-Saharan Africa – account for two-thirds of those people without electricity and more than half of the people without clean cooking facilities live in just three countries: India, China and Bangladesh.
Looking forward, the WEO’s central scenario, the New Policies Scenario, projects that in 2030, unless further action is taken, close to 1 billion people will be without electricity and 2.6 billion people will still lack clean cooking facilities.
But the story varies by region. For electricity, the number of people in developing Asia without access in 2030 will be almost half the figure for 2010 (led by progress in India) while Latin America will already have universal access. But in sub-Saharan Africa, a worsening trend persists until around 2025.
For cooking, developing Asia sees a significant improvement (led by China), but the number of people without clean cooking facilities in India alone in 2030 will be twice the population of the United States today. In sub-Saharan Africa the picture worsens by about a quarter by 2030.
The WEO praises the vital role that the UN Secretary General’s Sustainable Energy for All initiative has played in raising awareness of the need to increase modern energy access. But as of the Rio+20 Summit in June 2012, energy-access funding commitments it had received were well short of the nearly $1 trillion in cumulative investment the WEO estimates is needed to achieve universal access by 2030 – one of the initiative’s stated goals.
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