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SDG 7 is tackling the problem of the high number of people globally who live without access to electricity or clean cooking solutions (0.8 billion [5] and 2.4 billion [6] people, respectively, in 2020). Energy is needed for many activities, for example jobs and transport, food security, health and education. [7]
On average, girls receive lower education than boys in the rural areas of the region affected by the lack of clean energy sources. [46] There is an increased need for decentralized sources of energy to mitigate the consequences of energy poverty in rural areas of Africa and its disproportionate effect on women's health and education. [46]
Reliable and affordable energy, particularly electricity, is essential for health care, education, and economic development. [29] As of 2020, 790 million people in developing countries do not have access to electricity, and around 2.6 billion rely on burning polluting fuels for cooking. [30] [31]
Universal access to clean cooking is an element of the UN Sustainable Development Goal 7, whose first target is: "By 2030, ensure universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services". [51] Progress in clean cooking would facilitate progress in other Sustainable Development goals, such as eliminating poverty , good health and ...
The administration repealed the Clean Water Rule and rewrote the EPA's pollution-control policies—including policies on chemicals known to be serious health risks—particularly benefiting the chemicals industry, [16] [17] A 2018 analysis reported that the Trump administration's rollbacks and proposed reversals of environmental rules would ...
An example of an environmental justice issue in the United States is the lack of properly working septic tanks in Lowndes County, Alabama. In her book Waste: A Woman's Fight Against America's Dirty Secret , Catherine Coleman Flowers explains the environmental issues that this impoverished community faces.
The problem is closely related to energy poverty and cooking. Smoke from traditional household solid fuel combustion commonly contains a range of incomplete combustion products , including both fine and coarse particulate matter (e.g., PM 2.5 , PM 10 ), carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ), sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ), and a variety of ...
A number of illnesses including cancer can exacerbate the problems associated with fuel poverty. [14] An unprecedented global energy crisis and significant rise in the cost of fossil fuels in 2022 caused many governments to try to shelter consumers from higher energy prices and to accelerate the transition to clean energy technologies ...