Title: SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy in 2020/2021

SDG 7

Q: Can you name the 4 main objectives of SDG 7?
A: By 2030,

1. Ensure universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services for all

2. Increase substantially the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix

3. Double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency

4. Enhance international cooperation to facilitate access to clean energy research and technology, and expand infrastructure and upgrade technology in developing countries for supplying modern and sustainable energy services for all

In the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development developed by the UN Nation members in 2015, 17 Sustainable development goals were developped.

Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7 focuses on affordable and clean energy for all by 2030.

LINK: https://datatopics.worldbank.org/sdgatlas/targets/#7.1

Q: How much of the world population has access to electricity?
- 90% (correct)
- 50%
- 25%
- 10%

Q: Which part of the world has the highest number of people without access to electricity?
- Sub-Saharan Africa (correct)
- South America
- South-East Asia
- Northern China

Electricity Access Deficit: Urban-Rural Areas

Q: Electricity deficit (or energy poverty focused on electricity) is:
- Disproportionally concentrated in rural areas. People in rural areas make up 85% of people without electricity world-wide. (correct)
- Disproportionally concentrated in urban areas. People in rural areas make up 45% of people without electricity world-wide.
- More or less homogeneous throughout a country - both rural and urban spaces equally have areas that lack access to electricity.

Q: Considering this, what type of electricity system would help best tackle this problem?
- A centralized electricity grid. (correct)
- A decentralized electricity grid.