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Built to Fail: Rules at UN Climate Talks Favor the Status Quo, Not Progress
"Experts say stifling bureaucratic procedures that are disconnected from the climate crisis have consistently stalled COP negotiations."
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- Energy, Environment
- Region
- Global
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- climate change, failure, impact investing, NGOs, SDGs
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Turning Failure into Fuel: An Emerging Learning Platform Aims to Bring the Hidden Challenges in Humanitarian Energy to Light
The humanitarian energy sector is eager to learn from success. But according to clean cooking and energy access researchers Nazifa Rafa, Tash Perros, Iwona Bisaga and Ronan Ferguson, its failures are usually buried in reports or quietly brushed aside, and there's often a disconnect between what’s documented in impact reports and what practitioners experience on the ground. They argue that this dynamic is unsustainable in a sector with high risks, urgent needs and shrinking funding. In response, they share an emerging solution: the Humanitarian Energy Learning Platform, a centralized, inter-donor learning system designed to highlight what’s going wrong in humanitarian energy access, and how practitioners can systematically learn from it.
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- Energy
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Kenya’s eBee Lays off Employees Across All Departments in Major Restructuring
"The layoffs reflect broader challenges facing Kenya’s e-mobility sector, where riders are opting for cheaper electric motorbikes over eBee’s bicycles . . ."
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- Energy, Transportation
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- e-mobility, failure, scale, startups
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Inside the Fall of Okra: How Africa’s Most Promising Open Banking Startup Shut Down at Its Peak
Back in 2020, Okra had all the makings of a breakout African tech story: visionary founders, Silicon Valley backing, explosive revenue growth, and a product that was powering the future of finance on the continent.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Kenya’s Hustler Fund Is a Flop. Why President Ruto’s Plan to Loan Money to Entrepreneurs Hasn’t Worked
The Kenya government acted as a micro-lender via the Hustler Fund, which was applauded by the financial inclusion lobby as a way to correct failures in the credit market.
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- Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Kenyan Court Suspends $736 Million Adani Power Line Deal
The Law Society has argued that the power deal is "a constitutional sham" and "tainted with secrecy".
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- Energy
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Congo Scraps $1.2 Billion Biometric ID Project Over Cost Concerns
Congo currently lacks a national ID system, which complicates basic tasks for its citizens, such as opening bank accounts, obtaining official documents, and registering to vote.
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- Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: Brazil’s Grid Caps Power From Wind and Solar, Threatening Renewable Projects
Industry leaders said renewable energy investments were less viable under the National Electric System Operator’s (ONS) current “curtailments” policy, which temporarily caps how much power ONS accepts from wind and solar plants.
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- Energy
- Region
- Global
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- energy access, failure, renewable energy, solar, wind
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