Even in the richest countries like the UK, over 10 percent of people still live in fuel poverty worldwide,
one point two billion people still don't have access to electricity at all.
How can we give everyone the comfort we enjoy from energy without ruining the planet?
Chemistry is central in this effort. Chemistry helps us to understand how energy gets converted,
where and why we suffer losses of energy and chemistry helps us develop new methods which will do much better in future.
We've seen how chemistry is central to our energy future, chemical processes can help us use fossil fuels more efficiently and reduce pollution,
and chemistry can help us to make better use of new, sustainable,
renewable sources of energy by converting them into fuels so that we can use them when we need them.