Energy aid neglects “health emergency” fuelled by dirty cooking
Barcelona, SpainThomson Reuters Foundation Governments, development banks and businesses are providing less than one per cent of the money needed each year to wean three billion people off dirty, health-harming cooking by an international deadline of 2030, new data on energy access showed on Tuesday. In 2017, the latest figures available, funding commitments for clean […]
Fund smarter to switch on lights for the poor – UN envoy
Barcelona, SpainThomson Reuters Foundation Everyone in the world could be provided with clean, affordable electric power by a global deadline of 2030 if international funding toward the effort is used more intelligently, the UN official in charge of the task said. Rachel Kyte, the UN secretary-general’s special representative for sustainable energy for all, told the […]
Subsidise solar mini-grids to power rural Africa, investors urge
Barcelona, SpainThomson Reuters Foundation Local renewable-energy grids can provide electric power to hundreds of millions of people in developing nations, especially in Africa, but will not attract enough financial backing unless they are subsidised, a group of investors said on Monday. Twelve energy and impact investors – with more than $US2 billion under management and […]