Solar energy is the most abundant of all energy resources and can even be harnessed in cloudy weather. Credit: Raphael Pouget/UNICEF – Photo: 2025
By Ramesh Jaura
BERLIN | 3 January 2025 (IDN) — The world continues to advance towards sustainable energy targets, but not fast enough. About 685 million people still live in the dark. Four in five are in Sub-Saharan Africa. 2.1 billion people are cooking with dirty fuels that create unhealthy indoor smoke, causing over 3.2 million premature deaths each year.
We are not on track to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7), which aims to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all by 2030. SDG7 is also critical in reducing poverty, improving health, education and gender equality, and creating sustainable jobs and economic growth.
Against this backdrop, the International Day of Clean Energy on 26 January — declared by the UN General…
