The clock is ticking on the issue of energy poverty

Narendra Taneja writes: India's PM spoke on behalf of energy-poor, from Lima to Hanoi to Nairobi. Powerful platforms like the G-20 and the BRICS need to focus more on energy access, poverty and security.

Shri Radhe Sri Radhe.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke for all the energy-poor countries, from Chile to Indonesia to Rwanda, when he invoked the need for the impoverished to be able to access energy as much as the rich global north at the recently-concluded G-7 Summit in Germany. Experts estimate the total number of energy-poor people in Latin America, Asia and Africa to be in the region of three billion people. In South Asia alone, over one billion people are struggling with extremely limited access to energy, despite the LPG and the LED revolutions in India..