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1 How many Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) are there?

	14
	12
	17

2 What does Goal 7 (energy for all) include?

	Double the improvement rate in energy efficiency
	Universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services
	Increase the share of renewables in the global energy mix
	All above

3 How many people do not have access to electricity worldwide in 2018?

	100 million
	1.1 billion
	1 billion

4 Complete the following sentence: Having an open fire in your house for cooking is like:

	Smoking 400 cigarettes an hour
	Smoking 40 cigarettes a day
	No effect at all

5 95% of staple food needs to be cooked before they can be eaten. How many people die from household indoor air pollution, due to inefficient cooking practices using polluting fuels such as kerosene, wood etc?

	14 million every year
	1 million every year
	4 million every year

6 How much is the global fossil fuel subsidy in 2017 and how much investment is needed to achieve universal access to electricity by 2030 (Goal 7)?

	Fossil fuel subsidy: USD 300 billion & Investment needed: 52 billion
	Fossil fuel subsidy: USD 100 billion & Investment needed: 30 billion
	Fossil fuel subsidy: USD 200 billion & Investment needed: 40 billion

7 How does Goal 7 (energy for all) improve people’s live?

	Energy services reduce the time spent by women and girls on basic survival activities (gathering firewood, fetching water, cooking, etc.)
	Water desalination and purification using renewables can aid the availability of clean water
	Renewables help to tackle climate change
	Solar lanterns increase the number of productive hours in the evening so that people can work longer at night and children can also study longer at night
	All above.
	Mini-grids promote productive activities – resulting in increase in income