BARCELONA, June 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Progress on a global goal to provide everyone on the planet with clean power and cooking by 2030 is expected to slow down due to the COVID-19 pandemic and energy price spikes caused by the Ukraine war, international organisations warned on Wednesday. Efforts have inched forward over the past decade – but meeting the targets – viewed as key to protecting the climate and human health – will require far greater political will and funding, they said in a new report. The annual assessment of Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7), which covers energy access, projected that 670 million people will remain without electricity by 2030, while 2.1 billion people will still lack clean ways of cooking. “The shocks caused by COVID-19 reversed recent progress…
EXPLAINER-Pandemic and Ukraine war threaten clean energy gains for poorest
