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Finance for electricity access too little, too dirty – energy body

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Thomson Reuters Foundation Finance to provide electric power to nearly one billion people who live without it is rising – but too slowly to meet a global goal to reach everyone by 2030, an international body said on Monday. Meanwhile, funding to expand cleaner, more energy-efficient cooking has declined, Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) said […]

Some 844 million people struggling to access clean water, says Water Aid

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Some 844 million people are struggling to access clean water, according to revised figures from WaterAid. In its latest annual State of the World’s Water report, the organisation says the figure is 200 million higher than the previous number thanks to a change in the way the information is analysed with anything longer than a 30 […]