Energy Access. Energy poverty. Energy poverty is a lack of access to modern energy services. These services are defined as household access to electricity and clean cooking facilities (e.g. fuels and stoves that do not cause air pollution in houses). Modern energy services are crucial to human well-being and to a country’s economic development; and yet globally over 1.3 billion people are without access to electricity and 2.6 billion people are without clean cooking facilities. More than 95% of these people are either in sub-Saharan African or developing Asia and 84% are in rural areas.
The lack of access to modern energy services is a serious hindrance to economic and social development, and must be overcome if the UN Millennium Development Goals are to be achieved. For a decade, the World Energy Outlook (WEO) has highlighted the crucial role that energy access plays in a country’s development. Modern Energy for All 2013 Electricity Access Database. HomePage : HEDON Household Energy Network. Kopernik - Serving the last mile. Universal Energy Access | Sustainable Energy for All. Sustainable energy powers opportunity. Yet 1.3 billion people—one in five globally—lack electricity to light their homes or conduct business.
Sustainable development is not possible without sustainable energy Nearly 40% of the world’s population rely on wood, coal, charcoal, or animal waste to cook their food breathing in toxic smoke that causes lung disease and kills nearly two million people a year, most of them women and children. Electricity enables children to study after dark. Replacing outdated cookstoves and open fires with modern energy services would save the lives of 800,000 children who die each year as a result of exposure to indoor smoke. Private-sector investment is key to building and serving those markets Energy can be used to support businesses and achieve greater prosperity. Without sustainable energy, we will not meet the Millennium Development Goals. Greater prosperity means more disposable income and new markets for consumer goods. Energy Access Fact Sheet. Overview | ESMAP. The Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) is a global knowledge and technical assistance program administered by the World Bank.
Its mission is to assist low- and middle-income countries to increase know-how and institutional capacity to achieve environmentally sustainable energy solutions for poverty reduction and economic growth. Since its inception in 1983, ESMAP has supported more than 800 energy-sector activities that promote poverty reduction, economic growth and low carbon development in over 100 countries. Energy Security To help ensure long-term energy security, countries are looking closely at renewable energy, efficiency practices and technologies, diversification of supply, and improved sector performance.
ESMAP assists its clients to carry out energy assessments and develop strategies to enhance sector planning, regulation, and governance. ESMAP’s donors are: Current TAG members are: BCSE - Home.