How Africa Is Hacking Its Energy Crisis http://bit.ly/1QvmpRr To learn more about energy poverty, visit one.org/energy Subscribe! http://bitly.com/1iLOHml More than one billion people live...
========== In 2012, the United Nations launched its worldwide
effort to fight energy poverty , marking the “International Year of Sustainable Energy
for All”. Energy poverty is considered a lack of energy infrastructure and resources.
Roughly one in seven people around the world lack access to electricity, almost exclusively
in developing countries. Although things are improving, many have said that too little
change is happening too slowly. So we wanted to know, which countries don’t have electricity? Well, it is estimated that anywhere from 1.1
to 1.3 billion people live without electric power. To make up for a lack of deliverable
energy, nearly 3 billion people around the world use coal or wood fuel for heat and cooking,
contributing to deadly pollution. This po...