Find helpful resources on renewable energy projects such as government tax subsidies, partial copayment schemes and various rebates over purchase of renewables that encourage microenterprises increase the use of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies.
Today, 1.6 billion people worldwide and more than 500 million in Africa lack access to electricity for basic needs such as household cooking and lighting. The number in Africa is expected to rise over the next 20 years to nearly 700 million. These people rely predominantly on fuel-based cooking and lighting (mostly with charcoal,...
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Genetically improved Jatropha crop that has high bio-diesel content, which can be processed into motor and industrial oil and other products such as seedcake for livestock feeds and soap, can help Africa increase the value of its marginal land and incomes, research by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) says. The research, conducted in...
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The clean-tech innovations that will solve the world’s most urgent environmental problems might come from where we least expect it: by first serving the needs of consumers at the base of the economic pyramid, says Stuart Hart, a professor of management at Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Management and chairman of the university’s Center...
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IN RUKINAD village’s telephone repair store, an hour south of Kigali, Juvenal Kamana is pedalling himself an income. Coining 20,000-25,000RFR (€26-€32.50) in profit every month, he’s no Rumpelstiltskin. But added to the money he makes fixing mobile phones, he is a veritable industrialist in an area best known for subsistence farming and sorghum. “I’ve...
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Martin Wright asks whether low-income countries are on a fast track to low-carbon prosperity. The tropical sun is beating down. The wind is picking up. Yet the co-op farmers and their VIP visitor from the National Treasury are wreathed in smiles. Of course, their spirit of well-being owes something to the creature comforts of...
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Let there be light. And thanks to the efforts of rural women in one of the most remote corners of the Kenyan republic, lights turn on as night falls at the end of a sunny day. Tucked away in the remote villages of Olando and Got Kaliech in rural Kenya, residents in this poor...
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Did you know that 2.4 billion people worldwide lack access to energy? Hugh Whalan, CEO of Energy in Common (EIC), refers to these people as energy impoverished and has made it his mission to eradicate 15 million cases of energy poverty in the next 5 years by making green energy loans powered by individual...
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What is energy poverty? Energy forms the foundation of almost every economic development outcome – powering education in classrooms, refrigerating vaccines, pumping clean water, allowing for study or work after dark. Everything relies on energy. Think about what you do in the morning, and how many times you flick a switch, or press a...
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For the four years Charles Kalama was at the University College London, he never came across a waste polythene bag lying on the ground. The clean university environment, however, only served to remind him of his home city with images organic and inorganic waste like of polythene papers, which have virtually become permanent features...
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Renewable energy and microfinance are among the hottest buzzwords of the past few years. Now, Australian entrepreneur Hugh Whalan and New York energy specialist Scott Tudman are bringing the two together in Energy In Common, a new venture with the ambitious goal of delivering clean energy to 15 million people in five years, all...
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