Stay updated with breaking news from End energy. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Might want to put your phones on silent. Phones on silent. Everybody have their phones on silent . We all ready . Let me welcome all of you, and thank you for being here. This has been a group thats been in labor of intense effort and i know every one of us want to thank our staffs because theyve done yeomans work. As you can see, we have with us a bipartisan, Bicameral Group of people that have been working diligently for the last 30 days or more trying to get to a conclusion and a template, if you will, or a framework. This is covid emergency relief framework, its exactly what it is. Take your mask off. You cant hear me . Okay. Back off. Let me just say that this is an intense amount of work that the staffs have been doing for quite some time and every senator, every congressperson here has put in an enormous amount of time on this in person and on the phone. This is a covid emergency relief framework. Weve worked in the best i ....
U. N. Secretary. Thank you. Thank you for having us. Were delighted to have you both. So, let me start with you, if i may, doctor. Could you give us a global snapshot of Energy Poverty, where things stand, what populations are affected and what kind of repercussions are for gender equity and employment in the areas of the world that are most affected. Thanks again for having us. I think to just talk about what the Rockefeller Foundation has done and under the leadership of secretary munoz is looking at how we can end this Global Partnership and Energy Poverty. And as you ask, and rightly so, what is the global landscape. Let me start with my own continent. Africa accounts for only 2. 3 of the 270,000 hours of electricity generated. Asia is only 7. 8 . It ....
Where things stand, what populations are affected, and what the kind of repercussions are for gender equity and employment in the areas of the world that is most affected . Thank you, thanks again for having us. To just talk about what the Rockefeller Foundation has done and under the leadership of secretary moniz is looking at how we can end this Global Partnership and Energy Poverty. As you asked and rightly so, what does the Global Landscape say, let me start with my own continent. Africa is 3. 23 of electricity generated. Asiapacific is 5. 8 . I think thats why were look at this globaly. Because its africa but also south and central america, 4. 9 . When you look at those three, africa. 3. 2 , india, 5. 8 , and south and central africa, america, at ....
Thank you, francis. Thank you. We are delighted to have you both. You give us a global snapshot of Energy Poverty and the repercussions for gender equity and employment in the areas of the world most affected . Thank you, thank you again. About what the foundation has done under the leadership of the secretary is looking at how we can and this global problem of Energy Poverty. What is the Global Landscape space . 3. 2 ofccounts for only the 2700 kilowatt hours generated. [indiscernible] only asia with india is 8. 5 . Southafrica but also africa. America is 4. 9 . When you look at those three, africa is 3. 9 . Are large swaths of the global space that is energy poor. What we talk about as it relates , and that iscrisis [indiscernible] say one of the things the pandemic is shown as is if we do not have energy we cannot e ....