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A World We Want in 2030: Clean Energy and Gender Equality Are Key
April 07 2015
Imagine the world as you’d like to see it in 2030. What does it look like? My fellow panelists and I were asked this question as part of a discussion of access to energy as a driver of gender equality during UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) consultations last week.
Clean cooking and solar power were on the agenda 25 years ago but acquired little traction for a variety of reasons, notably those related to undeveloped technology, cost, and products unsuited to women’s needs—so even when they were available freely, women didn’t use them. That has all changed.