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Big Social Costs Tallied in Regions With Scant Energy Access
2013-03-08 19:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: After reading this Guardian article - "Energy poverty deprives 1 billion of adequate health care, says report" - I dug into the underlying analysis this morning. The report, by the British nonprofit group Practical Action, is a valuable effort to assess the full costs of inadequate energy access through indirect impacts on hospitals, schools and the like. Click here for the executive summary. The Guardian story focuses on the impact on health care. Here`s an excerpt: In India, nearly half of all...
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