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  • On January 1, 2016, Ms Rachel Kyte took office as CEO of SE4All and is also Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All. Prior to this position, she served as World Bank Group Vice President and Special Envoy for Climate Change. Recipient of numerous awards for women’s leadership, climate action and […]

  • Subsidies often don’t help women much at all and reforms provide an opportunity to better target support By Shruti Sharma, Laura Merrill, Christopher Beaton and Lucy Kitson This blog was originally published on Climate Home, June 15, 2016 Consumer subsidies on fossil fuels around the world totalled about USD 500 billion in 2014. Although such policies […]

  •   This blog was originally posted by ENERGIA partner Solar Sister. Solar Sister was founded on the premise that investing in women is not only the right thing to do, it’s the smart thing to do. The recent assessment by International Center for Research on Women on Solar Sister’s unique women-entrepreneur model highlights the ways in which gender equality, economic empowerment + clean […]

  • Women around the world bring much more to the table when it comes to clean energy than their roles as homemakers. writes Joan MacNaughton, Executive Chair of the  World Energy Trilemma, World Energy Council. While climate change has been recognized as an urgent, global issue, the relevance of increasing the visibility of women in clean energy as […]

  • Current research and practices on how climate finance can serve the energy needs of the poor                 Achieving access to energy for all is essential in order to eliminate global poverty. This is reflected in Sustainable Development Goal 7 on pro- poor and renewable energy. In addition to […]

  • Yesterday, on the first day of the Asia Clean Energy Forum (ACEF), ENERGIA jointly hosted a deep dive session exploring how gender and socially inclusive approaches for energy access are integral to bringing clean energy solutions to the last mile. In partnership with the World Bank Group, Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, ADB and Energy for […]

  • This new issue of ENERGIA News is dedicated to ENERGIA’s Gender and Energy Research Programme.  Our gender and energy research programme runs from February 2014 to February 2019 with financial support from the UK Department for International Development (DFID). It aims to generate and analyse empirical evidence on the links between gender, energy and poverty, and to translate this evidence […]

  • Solar Sister is excited to share the story of light, hope, and opportunity in Tanzania. Women + Energy: WESHINE is a campaign to raise awareness  and support for energy access and economic opportunity for women. Solar Sister released the first two video portraits of women entrepreneurs who are bringing clean energy to their communities… and the […]

  • Hosted by the Asia LEDS Partnership and the Energy Working Group of the LEDS Global Partnership Please register here. Description This webinar is a cooperation of the Asia LEDS Partnership and the Energy Working Group of LEDS GP, the Gender Equality for Climate Change Opportunities (GECCO) initiative, a five-year program launched by USAID and IUCN in […]

  • The Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) invites proposals from ANDE members interested in receiving support to fuel initiatives increasing access to finance for women-led businesses and supporting invention-based enterprises. Proposals must be received by 11:59pm EDT Friday, July 1. 2016. The goal of the Catalyst Fund is to increase the productivity and effectiveness of ANDE […]