UNDP proposes energy development solutions

Surveying 17 energy access projects across the Asia-Pacific region, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) stresses that it cannot grow without energy and cannot eradicate poverty in a sustainable way. if not develop energy services.

In this latest study, UNDP argues that services that combine access to modern energy sources for needs such as electricity, cooking, heating, and measures to create and increase income and wealth Improving health and education conditions for the poor will be the most effective energy development solution to eradicate poverty and improve the quality of life in the Asia-Pacific region.

The study highlights measures to be taken to circumvent the vicious cycle of 'poverty - lack of energy - poverty', and entry is still an important cause of chronic poverty and poverty, in turn, to prevent poor people have access to energy efficiently.

The poor need energy to escape poverty, but energy alone is not enough to escape poverty. Nearly half of the world's population has not yet had adequate and reliable access to modern energy sources and more than 20% of the world's population, equivalent to 1.4 billion people, has not yet been able to use electricity.

The UNDP study found that rural and urban poor people often do not have the financial capacity to use modern energy services, so they need to support them to create or increase income to use these. this service.

Nearly 2.7 billion people, accounting for 40% of the world's population, are currently dependent on sources of wood, charcoal, animal waste for cooking and heating needs. By 2030, air pollution from poor households using these mixed fuel sources is inefficient, possibly causing 1.5 million deaths each year.

The study also shows that most of the current energy projects take into account the supply of minimum energy to meet the poor's basic energy needs such as lighting, cooking and heating, however, the epidemics This energy case is not enough to eradicate poverty.

Therefore, the financial resources that the poor need to purchase energy services are still limited and energy development programs still have to depend heavily on long-term sources of unsustainable sources.