 For cooking fuels, the necessary political attention has not been received as it should have.

High entry costs, low consumer awareness, financial gaps for producers, slow progress in
innovation are some of the factors that need to be rectified immediately to reach the goals.
 Higher efforts need to be put in for other aspects like heating, cooling, transportation etc
which together account for 80% of the global energy consumption and yet have seen
minimal renewable energy implementation.
 One option is to tail the electricity sector. As electricity increases decarbonising,
transportation and other energy uses can piggyback on it and thus increasingly switch into
electric vehicles.
 Once all these are taken care of, other issues need to be focussed on: like grid integration
and the consequences of using batteries in electric vehicles. Batteries involve harmful
chemicals and can affect the other SDGs negatively.
 Innovation systems, including R&D, deployment and diffusion need to be enhanced by
investing in data collection systems and data analysis.
 Emphasise on how transition to clean energy creates jobs, improves women’s health and
well-being and enables economic empowerment.