Heartfelt thanks for your contributions to this consultation, the discussions are now closed and we will be posting a summary soon!
INTRODUCTION
Energy access is crucial for health, education, and economic prosperity, serving as a key multiplier for all SDGs. However, 675 million people still lack electricity, and 2.3 billion live without clean cooking options, placing them at risk of being trapped in cycles of poverty and inequality. To accelerate both energy access and transition, UNDP has undertaken an ambitious plan: providing access to an additional 500 million people by 2025, with a focus on hard-to-reach areas and crisis contexts.
Enhancing access to sustainable energy for the most vulnerable requires leveraging the latest technology to identify, at a granular level, those on the brink of exclusion. Acknowledging the transformative power of geospatial data in supporting its corporate pledge, the GeoHub—hosted at UNDP’s flagship Data Futures Exchange (DFx)—serves as a gateway for high-resolution data and UNDP’s collective intelligence on geospatial solutions. The collaboration with the IBM Sustainability Accelerator enables the organization to harness the latest technologies, such as hybrid cloud and AI, to fully utilize GeoHub’s capabilities in forecasting electricity access and revealing hidden spatial inequalities in energy transition. The assets developed as part of this collaboration serve as powerful tools for targeting, monitoring, and advocating for energy access and a just transition, assisting countries in advancing their development and climate goals.
ABOUT THIS CONSULTATION
In the next 4 weeks, we would like to showcase, explore, and collect feedback on the two innovative solutions developed as part of the IBM-UNDP partnership - the Clean Energy Equity Index (CEEI) and the Forecasting Electricity Access (FEA) tool. More information about this partnership is available here.
As experts and practitioners working on sustainable energy and related fields, your help to validate and illustrate how this important initiative could benefit your work, how it could be tailored or changed to be more relevant to users in different contexts, and any other practical tips and recommendations to make these tools better fit for purpose would be highly valued.
Your feedback will directly inform the finalization of these tools illustrating how geospatial innovation can help ensure we leave no one behind.
This consultation is public, open to all. Please share your perspectives and experiences in one or both discussion rooms below, which will remain open until Sunday, 5 May 2024.
HOW TO CONTRIBUTE?
- Click the "Join" -button to the top left of this page.
- Go to the 💬 discussion rooms below on Equity in Clean Energy and Electricity Access Forecasting and post your comment(s).
Any technical issues can be shared with: [email protected].
