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Accounting for access and inequality

Nature Energy volume 6, pages 773–774 (2021)Cite this article

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Access to modern energy sources is essential for sustainable development and human well-being. However, a recent study uses a bottom-up model to show how lack of access persists until 2050 under different socioeconomic pathways and decarbonization scenarios.

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