By Ali Imran
ISLAMABAD: Research Fellow and Advisor, Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), Dr Hassan Daud Butt remarked that increasing access to clean affordable energy remains the biggest challenge for the government. Energy access has crucial linkages with all aspects of human security and without reliable, clean energy the health, education, and economic sectors will continue to demonstrate poor performance. He was speaking at a roundtable discussion on “Fostering Green, Affordable, and Inclusive Energy Transition in Impoverished Regions of Pakistan” jointly organized by SDPI and UNESCAP here on Thursday. Resilient infrastructure, investment, and financing are crucial to developing the ecosystems and building on the wisdom of rural communities, and including local, indigenous knowledge is at the heart of universal access to clean and affordable energy, he added.
