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Priority recommendations. Results and action matrix. Goal. The role o SGD 7.1. System-level paradigm shift for increasing the pace of progress towards universal access. Context. Access to electricity services. Access to clean cooking services. Covid-19 pandemic impact on energy access. Challenges. Inadequate and suboptimal enabling policy and regulatory frameworks. Incomplete social-economic inclusiveness of energy access. Misaligned costs, reliability, quality, and affordability of energy services. Insufficient and misdirected energy access financing. Recommendations. Strategic recommendationd for paradigm shift. Key building blocks. Impacts. Impact on poverty and economic growth. Impact on human capital. Impact on environment.

Universal access to affordable, reliable, and modern energy services by 2030 (SDG 7.1) is a prerequisite and catalyst for improving the living and working conditions of all the world's people. The lack of access to modern energy is a barrier to achieving several other SDGs, especially for the poorest and most vulnerable populations. Receiving access to modern energy helps people lift themselves out of poverty and enhances their prosperity, health, safety, well-being, educational, and entrepreneurial opportunities; it also advances gender equality and social, economic, and political equality goals. Universal use of modern energy also helps diminish environmental degradation and is critical to abating climatic pressures and achieving net-zero emissions in a just and inclusive way by 2050.