1.5° PATHWAYS

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CHAPTER 4

4.2 PRIORITY ACTION AREAS TO SCALE UP PROGRESS

Decentralised renewable energy solutions must be scaled up in a timely manner to reach the 2030 target of universal access. The necessary scale-up will require concerted action by development partners, financing institutions, local and international private sectors, civil society and academia, led by bold, ambitious action by national and local governments.

Mainstream energy access as a national and regional priority Given its central role in achieving socio-economic development goals, universal energy access must be a national, regional and global priority, as well as a key pillar of COVID-19 recovery plans. Less than a decade remains to reach the SDG 7 target and a yawning gap still exists between where the world is today and where it needs to be in terms of targets, actual investment flows and progress on the ground. The solutions now exist, and it is imperative that governments, development finance institutions and other stakeholders commit and act now at the scale needed to reach universal energy access by 2030. The United Nations High-Level Dialogue on Energy in 2021 reiterated the importance of accelerating action to achieve universal energy access by 2030 and net zero emissions by 2050 with an emphasis on leaving no one behind and strengthening inclusion. At a regional level, development finance institutions are raising commitment for investing in energy access. “Light Up & Power Africa” is one of five priority areas for the African Development Bank. The Asian Development Bank’s 2021 Energy Policy includes support for electrification and cleaner fuels for cooking, heating and cooling as one of five key principles (ADB, 2021). At a national level, significant efforts are still needed to strengthen commitment to energy access. Out of 64 countries with electricity access deficits, under half have targets for the adoption of renewablesbased solutions for energy access (REN21, 2021a). In Africa, only about 20 countries have a clean cooking target and fewer than 30 have a renewables target in their electrification plans (IRENA and AfDB, 2022). A few countries, such as Nigeria, have included renewables-based access targets in their COVID-19 recovery plans. Meanwhile, many countries still lack targets for energy access.

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References

36min
pages 334-349

7.6 Case study: The European Union

2min
pages 332-333

Annex

3min
pages 350-352

7.5 Risk mitigation of supply shortages

9min
pages 325-331

7.2 What are critical materials?

1min
page 295

6.4 Availability of sustainable biomass feedstocks

12min
pages 274-281

6.5 Biomass sustainability

14min
pages 282-289

7.1 The role of critical materials in the energy transition

4min
pages 293-294

6.1 Introduction

1min
page 245

6.3 Scaling up bioenergy use in key applications: Opportunities, barriers and policies

29min
pages 258-273

5.3 Special focus: International trade of hydrogen and derivatives

14min
pages 234-241

5.1 Power system flexibility 5.2 Electrification of end-use

16min
pages 196-206

CHALLENGE

2min
pages 30-31

4.2 Priority action areas to scale up progress

41min
pages 165-189

Introduction

4min
pages 28-29

3.2 Policy baskets for a sensitivity analysis

16min
pages 121-129

3.1 Introduction

8min
pages 114-120

2.9 Policies for a just energy transition

8min
pages 108-111

Acknowledgements

1min
page 3

1.1 Introduction

1min
page 32
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