Category: Events
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Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum
The Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) will be held from 5-6 October in Cape Town. AWIEF gathers Africa’s next generation female entrepreneurs and women in business, innovators, SMEs and MSMEs, NGOs, governments and the private sector to enhance economic participation and opportunities for women. If you plan on participating in this event, please reach…
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Talking business: Microfinance for decentralised renewables in Africa
ARE with the kind support of the African-EU Renewable Energy Cooperation Programme (RECP) has the pleasure to invite you to the workshop “Talking business: Microfinance for decentralised renewables in Africa” on 9 October 2017 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The programme will feature presentations & discussions on: Services and activities offered by RECP and ARE for investors/financiers and project…
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Unlocking solar capital – Asia
Asia – being home to major markets like China, India and Japan, as well as the emerging South-East Asian region – has big opportunities ahead. The recent commitments at COP21 and ASEAN Ministerial summits provide a promising path for the growth of renewable energy applications in the region. The 2-day conference and networking platform Unlocking Solar…
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WEBINAR: Financing National Energy Access: A Bottom Up Approach.
Practical Action (PA) is launching its 6th edition of the Poor People’s Energy Outlook (PPEO) series –Financing National Energy Access: A Bottom Up Approach. This report considers how best to finance the national integrated energy access plans PA created for Bangladesh, Kenya and Togo in PPEO 2016, looking at the mix of technologies and funding required to…
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UN Sustainable Development Summit
UN Sustainable Development Summit, 25 – 27 September 2017 More information
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Sustainable Development Impact Summit
Delivering on the ambitions of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris climate agreement will require accelerating public-private cooperation and deploying new technological solutions. The Sustainable Development Impact Summit aims to advance both by providing a multi-stakeholder platform for concerted action. The World Economic Forum will work closely with leaders from government, business,…
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UNFCCC COP 2017
The 23rd session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 23) to the UN Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will held from November 6 – 17. The event is organized by Fiji and hosted at the headquarters of the UNFCCC Secretariat in Bonn, Germany. More information
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Clean Cooking Forum 2017: Driving Demand. Delivering Impact.
Save the Date! The Clean Cooking Forum is the largest international biennial gathering of professionals working to advance the clean cooking sector. Hosted by the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, the 2017 Forum will be held at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi, India. The Forum brings together global leaders from the private sector, government, finance, civil society, academia,…
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Addressing gender considerations in large-scale energy infrastructure policies and project development
GECCO Energy Webinar Series Thursday, June 1, 2017 from 10:00 EST / 16:00 CET Register for the webinar here:https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8038909225026883842 Gender mainstreaming in the energy sector is taking place from national policies, to institutional reforms and project development, increasing energy access and providing a low emission development pathways for many around the world. It has been…
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Join us at the VEF side event dedicated to empirical evidence!
Together with UNIDO, we are organizing a Vienna Energy Forum side event on 9 May. Strengthening the empirical Evidence: Gender inclusive energy policies enabling progress towards the SDGs will bring together researchers, policy makers and practitioners to reflect on the state of art of the empirical evidence on energy interventions that are delivering on gender impacts and…
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GECCO Webinar on Innovative Finance: Unlocking Women’s Entrepreneurship and Energy Access
Date: 27 April 2017 from 10:00 am EST / 4:00 pm CEST GECCO Energy Webinar Series: Innovative Finance: Unlocking Women’s Entrepreneurship and Energy Access Women face different—and sometimes greater—challenges than their male counterparts in entrepreneurship and asset acquisition. At times, social and cultural barriers may impede women from becoming landowners or from other assets, which hinders opportunities…
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ENERGIA’s participation at the SEforALL Forum. Join us! Read more about where and when
Wednesday April 5 16:45 – 17:45 ENERGIA Partner Working Session “Leveraging efforts for scaling energy access though women centric business models” Over the last few years, a number innovative business models around women’s energy entrepreneurship have gained traction. Private companies, social enterprises, NGOs and large conglomerates are finding it profitable to engage women (and their…