World Watch | The Shillong Times

United Nations, June 25: There are still 655 million people, or 8 per cent of the global population, living without electricity, with the majority in Sub-Saharan Africa, a latest UN report has shown. In addition, 1.8 billion people currently use polluting fuels and technologies for cooking, which has put their health and well-being at risk, according to the latest edition of Tracking Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7: The Energy Progress Report, released on Wednesday (local time). Sub-Saharan Africa bears a disproportionate share of these gaps, with over 560 million people living without electricity and 970 million lacking access to clean…