SDG-7: Affordable and Clean Energy
SDG-7: Affordable and Clean Energy Why is energy important? E nergy, by definition, is the very basis of life on our planet. All life forms need it to sustain themselves, albeit in different forms. All the progress that human civilisation has achieved can be attributed to how homo sapiens discovered, learnt, innovated, and improved the use of various forms of energy to reach heights of prosperity. Today, access to affordable energy is one of the necessities of life to ensure a happy prosperous society and sadly, we’re far away from the ideal picture. According to the UN, we have not provided electricity to more than 750 million people. Many of these numbers come from impoverished low-income regions like Sub-Saharan Africa. The other battle is being fought on the question of what energy is good energy? This brings us to the issue of clean energy where pollution and GHG emissions due to unsustainable energy production and consumption lead to climate change c...