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• News
  Press Release: IFC Invests in ENGIE’s Decarbonization Program in Chile

  This financing will help the company transition to renewable power generation with the installation of Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS).
  

• Blog Post
  A Blueprint for Productive Use of Clean Energy: An Accelerator in Nigeria Generates Solutions for Linking Mini-Grids to Agricultural Equipment in Rural Communities

  There are over 70 mini-grids operating in Nigeria today, and similar businesses are delivering clean energy in other underserved communities around the world. But as Scarlett Santana at RMI explains, serving these markets presents unique challenges, since if customers lack productive uses for the electricity they sell, mini-grids’ revenue model fails. She explores how mini-grids can address this challenge by partnering with agricultural equipment providers, and discusses an accelerator co-led by RMI that is providing the ecosystem to make these partnerships happen.

• Calendar Event
  Climate Week NYC

• News
  Philippines Says China’s Yadea to Invest $1 Billion in E-Motorcycle Plant

  The factory will have an annual production capacity of 3 million to 5 million units that will cater to domestic demand.
  

• Calendar Event
  International Vienna Energy and Climate Forum

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  High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development 2023

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  World Health Summit

• Blog Post
  The Global Impact of South-South Cooperation: The Case for Teaching Developing Countries’ Solutions to Business Students Worldwide

  South-South Cooperation empowers developing countries to create home-grown solutions to development problems, and to share them with other countries in the Global South. According to Mette Morsing at Principles for Responsible Management Education, the business sector has a key role to play in scaling these solutions in both the Global South and North. But for that to happen, she argues that business schools must focus on increasing knowledge exchange between emerging market innovators and their peers in the developed and developing worlds.