In a report, ‘Tracking Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG 7): Energy Progress’, international organisations have warned that universal access to energy by 2030 will fall short unless efforts are scaled up significantly.
According to the authors − the International Energy Agency (IEA), the International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena), the United Nations Statistics Division, the World Bank and the World Health Organisation – significant progress had been made on various aspects of this goal prior to the Covid-19 crisis.