The missing piece of the clean energy transition | Sheila Ngozi Oparaocha

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🗓️ 17 August 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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The clean energy transition has a major blind spot, says energy equity expert Sheila Ngozi Oparaocha: it ignores millions of people without access to energy. Highlighting grassroots women's organizations leading the charge towards universal access, she makes a powerful call to prioritize gender equality in energy policies — and to create a sustainable future where no one is left in the dark.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
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0:16.8	The effort to reach net zero emissions by 2050 is failing to acknowledge one key premise, that one in every three individuals on the globe
0:27.1	doesn't have access to any form of modern energy to begin with.
0:31.6	Energy Equity Expert Sheila and Gozi Oparocha says this
0:36.2	blind spot is a failure of diversity and inclusion, the call for an energy
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