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Access to Energy at Household Level

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Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

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The 2030 Program for Sustainable Development Goal accepted by the planet forerunners signifies a transformative outline to stimulate state activities to form a comprehensive and sustainable planet. Comprehending 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 allied targets, the aspiring agenda gives a momentous prospect to construct advancement more comprehensive, justifiable, and maintainable and offer a living of self-respect to each in a generation (ESCAP 2017). The SDGs 17 is covering all from energy and climate to water, nutrition, and ecologies; to healthiness and deficiency; to professions and modernization; among a quantity of other points (Kabat n.d.). Approach to reasonable, consistent, sustainable, and modern-day energy is the key attention of SDG goal number 7 (McCollum et al. 2017). This goal describes circumstances of deficiency currently and threats for the future and sets relative plans of accomplishment to stunned them. As per the capability of spending,...

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  1. Comilla University, Comilla, Bangladesh

    Jannatul Ferdous

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  1. European School of Sustainability, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Center for Neuroscience & Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  4. HAW Hamburg, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Amanda Lange Salvia

  5. International Centre for Thriving, University of Chester, Chester, UK

    Tony Wall

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  1. School of Economics, Finance & Banking, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Sintok, Kedah, Malaysia

    Md. Mahmudul Alam Ph.D.

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Ferdous, . (2020). Access to Energy at Household Level. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., Wall, T. (eds) Affordable and Clean Energy. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71057-0_134-1

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