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Press Release: BP, Equinor, Shell and TotalEnergies Join Forces to Help Increase Access to Energy
Despite ongoing efforts, progress towards universal energy access has stalled, particularly amidst recent macroeconomic shocks and rising energy prices.
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- Energy, Environment, Technology
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- Global
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UK to Help Give $10 Million People Worldwide Access to Clean Cooking
Globally, around 2.1 billion people still have to cook on firewood, charcoal or other polluting fuels, often worsening the health of many women and girls in particular, and damaging forests.
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- Energy, Health Care
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- Global
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d.light to Sell Solar Power, Clean Cooking Solutions in Kenya Under KOSAP
Through this initiative, d.light will provide solar power and clean cooking solutions to over 150,000 people.
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- Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Greenplinth Africa Signs $1.5 Billion Carbon Credit for 80 Million Cookstoves Project
The project involves the procurement, pre-fabrication, assembling and commissioning of highly efficient fuel wood cookstoves as well as planting of 4 billion trees at 50 trees per one cookstove by 2030.
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- Energy, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Verra Cancels 5 Million Overissued Credits Linked to C-Quest Capital
Verra has determined that a total of 5,004,915 VCUs were issued by these projects in excess of the correct amounts.
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Funding the Fight Against the World’s Oldest Fuel Source: How New Financing Mechanisms in Clean Cooking Can Succeed Where Grants Have Failed
The use of biomass fuel for cooking has remained consistent over the centuries, despite the development sector's efforts to scale global access to clean cookstoves. As Paul Ronalds at Save the Children Global Ventures argues, a key reason for this failure is the estimated $5.5 billion annual funding gap facing clean cooking initiatives — a gap that traditional sources of finance, like private donations and government grants, have been unable to fill. He discusses several funding solutions, including carbon credits, that could help the clean cooking sector finally end the era of biomass fuel.
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- Energy, Environment, Investing, Technology
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Press Release: Study Unveiled at UNGA79 Shows Energy Goals on the Brink; Lower Income Countries Dangerously at Risk of Being Left Behind
With just five years to 2030, The SDG7 Backsliding study raises the alarm on the global energy goals under UN Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7).
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- Energy
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Zeno Raises $9.5 Million to Take On Ampersand and BasiGo With Electric Motorbikes in 2025
The startup intends to accelerate its plans to introduce swappable battery technology across East Africa with the introduction of its first electric motorbikes in early 2025.
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- Energy, Technology, Transportation
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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