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NexThought Monday – Social Enterprise Startup Lessons from Burkina Faso: Doing business at the bottom of the World Bank’s ‘Doing Business Index’
Social enterprises are tackling the most challenging problems facing the BoP, but, in truth, we have not fully developed specific strategies or approaches for BoP-oriented start-ups in those crucial early months, writes Andrew Lala, co-founder of startup Clair de Lune. He offers several lessons from his social enterprise’s first three months on the ground in the heart of West Africa.
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- Energy, Entrepreneurship
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Decisions, Decisions: How do enterprises choose their markets for clean energy products and services in India?
The off-grid electricity market in India is huge, with over 300 million people living without access to electricity. With such a large market, how do enterprises decide which geographical area to target? Should they focus on a small niche market, or diversify from day one? Sanjoy Sanyal and Pamli Deka of New Ventures India discuss the options and provide advice.
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- Energy, Environment
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Social Entrepreneurship and Global Warming
The consequences of a temperature rise greater than 2°C would be catastrophic for all of humanity, but the greatest impact would be on the planet’s poorest people, who face profound loss from flooding, displacement and food scarcity. Social entrepreneurs are among those best positioned to improve the lives of the poor and mitigate global warming, says Thane Kreiner.
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- Energy, Entrepreneurship, Environment
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Solar energy technology for those with no access to electricity
With 1.7 billion people living without access to mains electricity, we look at five solar-powered products that could ease the problems of those 'off the grid'
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- Energy, Environment
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d.light Reaches 500,000th Pay-As-You-Go Customer, Launches Access Initiative
Company announces strategic focus to scale solar through financing globally
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- Energy, Environment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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NexThought Monday – Clean Energy Mini-grids for Rural Customers are Here to Stay: How to ensure power flows for long-term – Going Off Grid (pt 6)
In recent weeks we’ve seen big global development players drum up much-needed attention for renewable energy in Southeast Asia. Despite the headlines and events, for those who look at the statistics, it has never been a secret that Southeast Asia holds massive potential for renewable energy growth, particularly in the form of decentralized solutions.
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- Energy
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Acumen Joins Power Africa’s Beyond the Grid as Founding Partner
Acumen is proud to be a founding partner of Beyond the Grid, an innovative framework under President Obama’s Power Africa initiative to increase energy access for underserved populations across sub-Saharan Africa. Beyond the Grid will leverage partnerships with investors and practitioners committing to invest over $1 billion into off-grid and small scale solutions for this underserved market.
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- Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- renewable energy
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Africa: Private Capital Fuels Power Production – U.S. Energy Secretary Moniz
The theme of the energy ministerial is 'Catalyzing Sustainable Energy Growth in Africa'. The 'Electrify Africa' legislation sponsored by Republican Representative Ed Royce, with 117 bipartisan cosponsors, calls for a comprehensive U.S. policy to promote more access to electricity across Africa. It passed the U.S. House of Representatives on 8 May and now goes to the Senate for consideration. What can you tell us about it?
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- Energy, Environment
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