Share Latest data shows that a third of the world’s population have no access to clean cooking fuels and technologies. Damilola Ogunbiyi, CEO and Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) and Co-Chair of UN-Energy made this known while giving a review of her first year leading SEforALL in a recent speech titled: “2020 in review: A pandemic, renewed urgency on energy access and some optimism.” According to Ogunbiyi, “The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored that energy access saves lives. Yet despite some progress in recent years, the latest Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7) data shows just under 800 million people still lack access to electricity and 2.8 billion people – a third of the world’s population – have no access to clean cooking fuels and technologies.