Author: Tjarda Muller
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Call for Papers: Southeast Asia’s Road to Recovery – The Energy Context
This opportunity was originally published here: https://th.boell.org/en/2021/06/30/call-for-paper-energy Deadline for application: 6 August 2021 Heinrich Böll Stiftung (hbs) Southeast Asia Regional office is issuing this call for papers/analyses that examine the region’s energy landscape and policy responses to the pandemic around topics including, but not limited to: National and/or regional energy blueprints (or the lack…
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ENERGIA discusses gender inclusion during Ministerial-level Thematic Forums
UN Member States, NGOs, civil society, youth organizations and practitioners gathered last week for the Ministerial-level Thematic Forums, to discuss actions to promote and advance the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goal 7 and the Paris Agreement on climate change. The event offered an opportunity to outline challenges and encourage dialogue by bringing to the…
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Consultancy to conduct gender equality, social inclusion and rights based analysis
The Pacific Community (SPC) would like to invite interested qualified bidders to submit quotations to Conduct gender equality, social Inclusion (GESI), and rights-based analysis of the National Energy frameworks in the Federated States of Micronesia and develop a GESI and Rights-based integration Plan for EU FSM Sustainable Energy Accompanying Measures (SEAM) Renewable Energy and Energy…
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Call for Expressions of Interest on Gender and Energy Innovation – Introductory Webinar
Do you work in Nepal? Do you have an innovative idea to address gender challenges in energy access and/or clean cooking? Join our webinar on February 10 and find out how we could support you! Date: February 10, 2021 Time: 14:00 NPT | 09:15 CET To register, please send an e-mail to: ssartori@hivos.org, providing…
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Examining Energy Access Enterprises Serving the Last Mile
Date: February, 4 Time: 9:30 AM EST Location: Virtual event. Register: Register to attend here. (CLOSED). The Shine Campaign is inviting you to join our community convening on 4 February at 9:30 AM EST for a conversation about Shine’s investment pipeline research and a discussion on funding and financing for decentralized renewable energy projects. Speakers include: Savitha…
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The Green Climate Fund must change course to have a real impact on lives
Sulis Setiawati plucks some fresh vegetables from a field and smiles: “Thanks to the solar irrigation, farmers can now grow a range of fresh vegetables when in the past they had to survive from growing corn and maize.” She tells how farmers can now farm during the eight-month long dry season, giving a boost to…
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Ashden Awards 2020: Applications now open
Applications open: 4 Nov 2019 Applications close: 11 Dec 2019 We have just a few years to avert climate catastrophe, and every wasted month makes the challenge ahead far more difficult. Failed energy systems of the past have left 840 million people without access to electricity, and the rest heavily reliant on a fossil fuel burning, carbon-heavy…
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Putting clean cooking on the agenda
A Q&A with Rita Poppe, Hivos policy advisor green and inclusive energy From September 23 to 29, the city of New York will host the annual climate week. Besides panel discussion, concerts and exhibitions, the Climate Action Summit of the UN Secretary-General will be organized. In the same week, the SDG Summit will also take place, bringing together…
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REPORT LAUNCH: ‘Beyond fire: How to achieve electric cooking?’
The Hague, 27 May 2019. Cooking with renewable electricity is now cost-competitive with other cooking alternatives in most developing countries, concludes a new report called Beyond Fire: How to achieve electric cooking by Hivos and World Future Council. This is a significant improvement from three years ago when the two organizations studied this for the…
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New policy briefs state immediate action is needed to close the energy gap by 2030
In September 2015, the international community came together and approved the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which contained 17 goals and over 169 targets to “provide a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet”. Among others, one of the greatest challenges facing countries in meeting the 2030 goals is universal energy…
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NEW: Poor People’s Energy Outlook 2018
PPEO 2018 builds on PPEO 2016 (bottom-up energy access planning) and PPEO 2017 (financing for energy access) to explore how access to energy can be accelerated to achieve both the scale required to meet our global 2030 goals, and the inclusivity required to leave no-one behind. The report looks at clean cooking, decentralised electricity and grid-extension case study programmes across sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia…
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Linkages between gender-based violence and environmental issues — SURVEY
Inequalities and discriminations based on gender, such as GBV, and environmental unsustainability are deeply interlinked, such that tackling one without addressing the other is unlikely to succeed. Although largely undocumented to date, GBV and environment links may feature in conservation initiatives as well as those focused on gender, economic empowerment, development, humanitarian aid, and rights…