Even before the crises and challenges of recent years, progress in the UNECE region towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG) was already too slow to meet the 2030 target. Amid overall positive SDG7 implementation trend, this report confirms the gap between the actual progress and that for that required for the achievement of the set SDG7 targets.
Although access to electricity and the use of clean fuels for cooking, heating and lighting is widespread in the UNECE region – and deployment of renewable energy had been increasing and energy efficiency had also been improving – the rate of progress has not been high enough to make the energy targets of SDG7 achievable.
Advancing SDG7 in the UN Economic Commission for Europe Region
