Editing IPCC:AR6/SR15/Chapter-5 (section)

== 5.4.2.3 Lack of energy access/energy poverty ==

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A lack of access to clean and affordable energy (especially for cooking) is a major policy concern in many countries, especially in those in South Asia and Africa where major parts of the population still rely primarily on solid fuels for cooking (IEA and World Bank, 2017) <sup>[[#fn:r245|245]]</sup> . Scenario studies which quantify the interactions between climate mitigation and energy access indicate that stringent climate policy which would affect energy prices could significantly slow down the transition to clean cooking fuels, such as liquefied petroleum gas or electricity (Cameron et al., 2016) <sup>[[#fn:r246|246]]</sup> .

Estimates across six different IAMs (McCollum et al., 2018b) <sup>[[#fn:r247|247]]</sup> indicate that, in the absence of compensatory measures, the number of people without access to clean cooking fuels may increase. Redistributional measures, such as subsidies on cleaner fuels and stoves, could compensate for the negative effects of mitigation on energy access. Investment costs of the redistributional measures in 1.5°C pathways (on average around 120 billion USD2010 per year to 2030; Figure 5.4) are much smaller than the mitigation investments of 1.5°C pathways (McCollum et al., 2018b) <sup>[[#fn:r248|248]]</sup> . The recycling of revenues from climate policy might act as a means to help finance the costs of providing energy access to the poor (Cameron et al., 2016) <sup>[[#fn:r249|249]]</sup> .

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