topics-n: Renewable energy
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Invest in Women: Accelerate Progress
This year’s International Women’s Day theme is Invest in Women: Accelerate Progress. ENERGIA wholeheartedly embraces this theme. Women are key in addressing the Social Development Goals (SDGs), dealing with the world’s biggest challenges today. These goals, including SDG7 of ensuring affordable and clean energy for all by 2030, can only be met if women are…
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Breakthroughs: Advancing Gender Equity in African Clean Energy
Historically, employees in the African clean energy sector have been predominantly male – but that is slowly changing. Clean energy companies across Africa are making concerted efforts to diversify their workforces, making a particular effort to attract, hire, and retain women. Companies have broadened marketing approaches, innovated in how they manage applications and interviews, investigated…
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Basic energy access lags amid renewable opportunities, new report shows
Global energy access gap persists: 675 million people without electricity, 2.3 billion people reliant on harmful cooking fuels WASHINGTON, June 6, 2023— A new report by the International Energy Agency (IEA), the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), the World Bank, and the World Health Organization (WHO), released today, finds…
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Tracking increase in women’s employment in the renewable energy sector under NDC targets
In 2019-2020, the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) completed its Employment Assessment ofRenewable Energy Targets under the Nationally Determined Contributions (NEAR-NDC) Project. The project aimed to generate an evidence base for the link between Renewable Energy (RE) targets in NDCs and its required investments with employment generation to support and strengthen GGGI Member countries’ RE…
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Women’s participation in the renewable energy workforce in Sub-Saharan Africa
This study found that women comprise about a quarter of company board members, executives, and managers in the RE sector. While women comprised about one third of RE sector workers, they were largely concentrated in corporate support functions. Only 13 percent of women had higher-paying science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)-related jobs, and 16 percent…
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Event: El-Hiwar Euro-Arab Policy Dialogue On Challenges And Opportunities For Women Economic Empowerment In Times Of Climate Change
Date: 24 March 2022 Location: Online Short report with the main take-aways of this event: here. Both the Arab region and Europe are committed to increase gender empowerment, to create quality jobs and professional opportunities and to successfully transit towards greener economies. These are endeavours that would benefit from greater cooperation within and among…
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Opportunity: E-learning Course on Gender Equality, Human Rights-based Approach on Climate Action, and Renewable Energy
UNEP and UN Women, together with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), developed a free self-paced online course to provide government officials, policymakers, and financial institutions with the knowledge and skills needed to apply gender equality and human rights-based approaches in their climate-related work. Course: Gender Equality and Human Rights in Climate Action and…
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New Energy Ecosystem Can Aggravate Existing Inequalities If Gender Gap Is Not Addressed
This interview was originally published on the Heinrich Böll Foundation website. Authored by by Daniel Abunales and Lea Goelnitz Why is it important to integrate gender equality in the energy transition debate? Silvia Sartori: Women and men have different energy needs and use energy differently. Globally, women have less access to and control over…
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Training Opportunity: Advanced Training Course (RES4Africa Foundation)
Renewable Energy Solutions for Africa Foundation (RES4Africa Foundation), in partnership with Enel Foundation and with the European Investment Bank, announces its second webinar programme dedicated to capacity building and training. Applications are open for the selection of 250 candidates to join an advanced training course specifically aiming at fostering local ownership to enhance project sustainability,…
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Funding Opportunity: REPP seeks innovative clean energy projects in new request for proposals
This article was originally published on REEP website. The Renewable Energy Performance Platform (REPP) issued its latest request for proposals (RFP) targeting innovative companies and entrepreneurs working in Sub-Saharan Africa’s renewable energy space. By focusing on clean energy pioneers, REPP – managed by Camco Clean Energy and funded by the UK Government’s International Climate Finance…
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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…