He push for clean energy is making some progress. During the time 91% of the world has access to electricityProgress was neither rapid nor comprehensive enough. The number of people with access to electricity has increased to 675 million since 2015.
Record values
Global investment in clean energy has reached near record levels 1.7 trillion dollarsand renewable energy now accounts for more than 28% of global electricity and has grown by almost 5% since 2015.
However, 2.3 billion people still rely on coal, kerosene or solid biomass as the main fuel for cooking. Lack of clean cooking contributes to nearly 3.7 million premature deaths per year, with women and children most at risk.
Around the 80% of the world's population without electricity still lives in rural areaspredominantly in sub-Saharan Africa.
Recent studies show that the world will need to triple its annual investments by 2030 to achieve these clean energy goals. Nations are already moving beyond words and taking action, from Indonesia's Just Energy Transition Partnership to a new approach to the Nairobi Declaration adopted at September's African Climate Summit.