Summary: Energy poverty, is arguably the most pervasive and crippling threat society faces today.

Lack of access impacts several billion people, with immediate health, educational, economic, and social damages.

Furthermore, how this problem is addressed will result in the largest accelerant of global pollution, or the largest opportunity to pivot away from fossil-fuels onto the needed clean energy path.

While debate exists on the optimal path or paths to wean our economy from fossil fuels, there is no question that technically we have today a sufficient knowledge and technological foundation to launch and to even complete the decarbonisation