Earth Hour reminds us to switch off our lights for one hour. But what about the 600 million people with no reliable lights to switch off?

Globally, over 600 million people still lack access to electricity and 2 billion people to clean cooking (SDG 7). This has severe implications on health (SDG 3), gender equality (SDG 5), climate (SDG 13) and the other interconnected SDGs. Governments are trying to address these challenges through international climate finance, supporting mitigation activities such as…