Accelerating rural energy access in the race to net zero carbon emissions

With adverse climate change impacts growing in number and intensity , many world leaders at the recent COP26 meetings in Glasgow developed joint, ambitious aspirations and plans , including to phase “down” investments in coal, phase out subsidies for fossil fuels, halt deforestation, reduce methane emissions by 30% by 2030, and to direct financing more toward clean energy technologies. All have the goal to keep cutting emissions to reach “ net zero ” by mid-century. A simple definition of net zero is that new emissions do not surpass emissions reductions.