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- Op-Eds & ArticlesAir-Conditioning Should Be a Human Right in the Climate CrisisOriginally posted in Scientific American, May 10, 2022. We need to protect vulnerable people from killer heat without destroying the environment A record-breaking heat wave is sweeping South Asia, threatening hundreds of millions of people with deadly temperatures well above 100 degrees Fahrenheit.Learn More
- Op-Eds & ArticlesWhere are Africa’s Clean Energy Projects? A proactive agenda for the US GovernmentBLUF: The USG wants to fund as many new clean energy projects in Africa as possible, but the pool of bankable utility-scale generation projects is running dry.Learn More
- MultimediaEpisode #14 Ashvin Dayal: We Need to Redefine Energy & Development ProgressDayal, Senior Vice President of Power & Climate and The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet at The Rockefeller Foundation, discusses how he got into working on energy, why he believes in raising the definition of energy access, and the power of philanthropy. Ashvin Dayal leads The Rockefeller Foundation’s Power & Climate program, aimed at scaling up energy access and accelerating an inclusive energy transition in emerging markets.Learn More
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THE CASE FOR TRANSPARENCY IN POWER PROJECT CONTRACTS: A PROPOSAL FOR THE CREATION OF GLOBAL DISCLOSURE STANDARDS (Revised August 2022)
The purpose of a nation’s power sector is to deliver reliable electricity at the lowest cost and for the greatest benefit.Continue Reading - Memo
Untangling ‘Stranded Assets’ and ‘Carbon Lock-In’
What are the risks associated with new gas-fired power in developing economies, and how can we mitigate them? In the face of intensifying climate change impacts, we must shift decisively away from unabated fossil fuels.Continue Reading - Blog
Rising rates are especially bad news for clean energy in Africa
Higher prices for oil & gas should be good news for wind & solar energy and drive an even faster energy transition – at least in rich countries.Continue Reading - Blog
3 big ways the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act may impact the energy transition in emerging and frontier markets
The U.S. Inflation Reduction Act, now headed to President Biden’s desk for signature, is predominantly a domestic bill – with huge ramifications for U.S.Continue Reading - Memo
How Can Small and Medium Enterprises Cope with Power Outages?
Electricity is a critical input for businesses that rely on productivity-enhancing technologies. As a result, firms, particularly small and medium enterprises (SMEs), incur substantial productivity losses from unreliable electricity supply, which is extremely common in emerging market economies.1 Our study finds that, in Ghana, there is essentially no effective method that SMEs can employ to fully compensate for unreliable power supply in power-reliant businesses – and solving this challenge will likely require broader investment or policy intervention.2 Unreliable electricity supply is a major obstacle for firms More than one in ten firms in Sub-Saharan Africa cite unreliable electricity as the biggest obstacle to their operations (Figure 1).Continue Reading - Blog
In climate policy, African gas is like organic salad microgreens
The Guardian recently published an article supposedly exposing new African plans to expand oil and gas production and raising alarm bells about the climate implications.Continue Reading - Blog
Hot take on the White House Africa strategy: It’s all about Agency
The White House released President Biden’s Sub-Saharan Africa Strategy yesterday, aiming to reset strained relationships, clarify US priorities, and draw a line in the sand from the previous Administration.Continue Reading - Report
Congressional Testimony: US Leadership and Energy in Africa
Todd Moss testified along with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (World Trade Organization), Donald Kaberuka (African Union), and Rama Yade (Atlantic Council) at the House Foreign Affairs Committee Congressional Roundtable: "U.S.Continue Reading - Op-Eds & Articles
Europe to Africa: Gas for Me but Not for Thee
Originally appeared in Foreign Policy, July 14, 2022. Few should be surprised that, facing energy shortages and rising costs for fuel and electricity, rich countries are turning back to more and dirtier fossil fuels.Continue Reading - Memo
How Caribbean countries can leverage nature to finance clean energy
Experts agree that climate change mitigation will ultimately require removing carbon from the atmosphere to the tune of a billion tons of CO2 per year in only a few decades.Continue Reading