The Importance of Energy in the Global South

What people need for services and maybe products, access to basic sanitation and water and food and housing is energy. So the type of energy that we use in order to create these services is a completely separate matter. And we can only speak about the energy demand required to eradicate poverty. In the current global context where clean energy is not affordable at a large scale in certain countries, it is only expected that policy makers in the global south will build infrastructure using what is competitive in those countries right now. That tends to be fossil fuels, currently gas.