Released after a two-day forum on sustainable energy in Lisbon, Portugal, a May 2018 report, Tracking Sustainable Development Goals (SDG7): The Energy Progress Report showed signs that these goals may not be met by 2030. 

A report card format was produced, showing how each nation signatory to these standards have been, or will be met by year-end 2030. Least Developing Nations have had the most difficulty adhering to these standards, as the majority of these nations are failing to adhere to the benchmark standards. Without proper investment in these least developing nations by developed nations, the globalized goal of greater portions of the energy consumption be produced by sustainable formats, will be difficult to meet. Specifically, the over one billion persons living in the Southern Asia sub-continent and sub-Saharan Africa lack basic access to any time of energy, not just sustainable energy formats. 

This provides an incredible investment opportunity for corporations and developed nations for these areas to have sustainable formats first, instead of as a secondary or complementary model. 

 Cooking fuels will still be the primary method of energy production will be from the dirtiest formats of charcoal, wood, and animal wastes at figures of over 2 billion people, directly contributing to over 4 million deaths annually. 

The report noted

"The need for rapid deployment of clean cooking fuels and technologies has not received the attention it deserves from policy-makers, and lags well behind the rate of electrification in almost every country, even in spite of the smaller costs needed to ensure clean cooking solutions for all compared to electrification." 

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This year in particular has seen a change in adherence to the Paris Climate Agreement, specifically from the United States, while many previously non-signatory parties to this agreement have gone ahead and signed onto these protocols. Unfortunately, the United States's contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions outweighs the newly partied signatories. It is important for every nation to continue forward with this landmark global achievement in developing standard by which climate change can be combated.