Progress of SDG7 in Asia and the Pacific

Asia and the Pacific has made significant progress in providing access to electricity since 1990, with an annual average growth of 0.8 per cent to reach 90 per cent access rate in 2014, leaving 421 million people without access. On the other hand, the progress in access to clean cooking fuel has been disappointingly slow, increased from 40% in 2000 to 51% in 2014, leaving 2.2 billion people still cooking with biomass in traditional stoves. While the installed capacity of renewable energy has grown in some countries in recent years, the share of renewable energy in final energy consumption declined in the region by about 5 per cent between 1990 and 2014. The improvement in energy efficiency since 1990 has been remarkable, with energy intensity of GDP declining by an annual average of 1.7 per cent. Delivering on an energy transition to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the objectives of the Paris Agreement will require concerted efforts by all countries through the development of enabling policy measures as well as taking into account the interlinkages among SDGs and the synergies between SDGs and NDCs.

Sustainable Development Goals:

Affordable and Clean Energy