Energy

Renewable Energy for Poverty Eradication

Off-Grid Success: Solar Chilling Fuels Produce Supply For Women Farmers In Malawi

Malawian farmers face significant post-harvest losses due to lack of refrigeration and market access. Practical Action’s Renewable Energy for Agriculture project empowers women farmers with renewable energy technologies, enabling them to grow quality crops, store produce effectively, and secure regular contracts, resulting in increased income and reduced losses.
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Sheri Hickok discussing Carbon Markets

Exploring the Role of Carbon Markets in Climate Change Solutions: Insights from COP28 with Sheri Hickok

In this podcast Sheri Hickok provides a 101 on the function of carbon markets and their evolution through carbon offsetting hiccups; whilst giving us a glimpse behind the curtain of the globe’s climate conference.
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Making community and collaboration the route to climate justice

Wipro explains its community and collaboration approach to a just transition, creating strong partnerships and on-the-ground action, with a focus on renewable energy and water sources in India.
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Tackling global warming through the promotion of clean cooking energy in Ghana

The world’s poor are continuously affected by the low availability of sustainable and reliable energy, with increasing difficulty in remote areas. Modern energy services are crucial to human well-being as well as to countries’ economic development. Mark Kojo Medegli, Sustainability Leader of United People Global, explains what the way forward looks like.
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Carol Weis and Neha Misra

By one estimate the demand for photovoltaic installers (or solar energy electricians) is projected to grow 52 percent from 2020 to 2030. Carol Weis and Neha Misra – both part of Remote Energy examine how we train up a new global workforce of solar installers
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Announcing the launch of the GSMA Innovation Fund for Digital Urban Services

Do you leverage digital technology to deliver urban services with social, economic and environmental Impact? if you do so in the fields of plastic and waste management, energy, water or sanitation, the newly launched GSMA fund could support you. Red on to learn more.
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Renewable energy investments can boost the Caribbean’s sustainable recovery: Innovative financing approaches

Unlocking an economic boost by investing in renewable energy can be a pillar of the COVID-19 recovery, but will require significant work to align actors across the sector. Read more in this article, the second in a series on Renewable energy investments, from the Clinton Global Initiative and Resilience Capital Ventures.
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Renewable energy investments can boost the Caribbean’s sustainable recovery: A green economic stimulus

The growing renewable energy sector offers a significant opportunity for advancing green recovery and economic diversification in the Caribbean. The disruption occasioned by the pandemic could be a kickstart to speed up these shifts. Read more in this article, the first in a series on Renewable energy investments, from the Clinton Global Initiative and Resilience Capital Ventures.
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How solar-powered tablets are educating rural communities about COVID-19

In the wake of the outbreak of the novel corona virus and realizing the need to disseminate information about the spread and prevention of COVID19 and other health-related issues, the Community Tablet initiative, with support received from the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF), is conducting digital campaigns in communities that are otherwise excluded from digital information.
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Why Off-Grid Energy Matters…And How it Can Matter Even More

Roughly 600 million people in Africa lack access to electricity. Off-grid energy solutions, such as solar home systems and mini-grids, are the most efficient way to provide energy to over half of these people. Although the impact of providing energy access on people’s lives – including through off-grid solutions – may seem obvious, it’s important to better understand and quantify exactly what this means. Because it’s through this detailed understanding of impact that we can become better investors.
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Five Questions on Partnership with the Pollinate Group

SDG 17 calls for a revitalisation of global partnerships. In India and Nepal, a social enterprise, Pollinate Group, is working in partnership to empower women to distribute solar energy products in informal settlements. Pollinate Group is partnering with Greenlight Planet and the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) through the Business Partnerships Platform.
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PREVIEW #BFPOXFORD Keynote Profile: Monique Ntumngia, Winner of the Visa Everywhere Initiative

Be inspired by #BFPOxford Keynote speaker Monique Ntumngia, as she tells us more about the Green Girls Organisation, an award-winning clean energy technological innovation, which is creating a route towards economic independence for women and girls in Africa.
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Investing In The Energy Transition

The Private Financing Advisory Network (PFAN) bridges the gap between investors and entrepreneurs. It identifies promising clean energy projects at an early stage and provides no-cost coaching and investment facilitation. When in place, these measures make it easier for investors to understand a project’s potential, increasing the odds that they will make an investment.
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Meet the Longlist: Unilever Global Development Award, Supported by Business Fights Poverty

Business in the Community announce the longlist of companies selected for the The Unilever Global Development Award, supported by Business Fights Poverty. The award recognises businesses that demonstrate positive impact against one or more of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Engaging the Private Sector for Development Results in Indonesia

Nilmini Rubin, Vice President for International Development at Tetra Tech in Jakarta, Indonesia, shares how MCC-funded projects are engaging the private sector in cocoa production and other industries to achieve better development results.
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Affordability – Beyond the Buzzword

Affordability is at the core of much of CDC’s work as impact investors – from affordable electricity to housing, food, healthcare, education and many more. Yet ask someone to define what it means, and you may be met with little more than a blank stare.
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A Collective Approach for Last Mile Distribution

The Global Distributors Collective (GDC), with over 100 last mile distributors and 30 supporting partners from across the distribution sector, have launched a Call to Action publication, which provides guidance and insight on the key challenges faced in last mile distribution and the opportunity to achieve impact through the GDC.
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Access to Energy Through Mobile Is Changing Lives

The mobile industry is playing a crucial role in achieving SDG 7: Universal energy access by 2030. New models to deliver energy to underserved consumers are emerging out of a convergence between mobile payments, the internet and mobile services. GSMA discuss how access to energy through mobile is changing lives
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In Solar Supply Chain, Women Entrepreneurs are Key to Reaching Remote Areas

Lighting Africa, a joint program of the World Bank and IFC, has helped improve the lives of 20 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa by providing access to basic electricity. This blog describes how IFC seeks to ease the power situation by providing off-grid energy solutions to 250 million people
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A Low-carbon Economy: Technologically Possible, Economically Attractive

Jenny Bofinger-Schuster, Senior Vice President, Sustainability and Cities, at Siemens AG, discusses the need for joint action on climate change – and Siemens’ contribution to that effort.
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