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"Access to modern energy services is a fundamental prerequisite for poverty reduction and sustainable human development. Without access to energy, whole communities are constrained to a life of poverty. To begin to address this, in September 2010, the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, launched the target of ‘universal energy access by 2030’. He underlined the importance of energy access in poverty reduction and the role of energy services in meeting the Millennium Development Goals.
Significant global investment is forecast for the energy sector over the next two decades, projected at a total of USD 26 trillion – just 3% of that sum would achieve universal access to energy by 2030. In recent years, substantial efforts have been made to foster private investment for energy access. However, aside from the economies in transition, very few developing countries can demonstrate progress on scaling-up access to energy for the poor. Financial assistance for energy access for the poor has been only modest, and it is therefore necessary to increase private sector involvement.
I likewise believe that, by demonstrating and enhancing political will and financial commitment in particular, the EU can play a key role in achieving universal energy access by 2030."@en1
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