Subscribe to leading news on impact investing. - Bill Gates warned recently that COVID-19 could overwhelm health systems in sub-Saharan Africa and have "very, very dramatic" consequences.
- Distributed renewable energy solutions (such as stand-alone solar and mini-grid) represent a clean, cost-effective, rapidly deployable and reliable option to electrify healthcare centers, transforming lives while bolstering global efforts to achieve UN Sustainable Development Goal No. 3 – good health and wellbeing.
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Creative destruction
A green stimulus proposal would create "millions of family-sustaining green jobs, lifts standards of living, accelerates a just transition off fossil fuels, ensures a controlling stake for the public in all private sector bailout plans, and helps make our society and economy stronger and more resilient."
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Is oil’s freefall the tipping point in the transition to a low-carbon economy?
Oil, says CarbonTracker’s Mike Coffin, “is in long-term structural decline.”
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Realizing the Caribbean’s renewable energy potential
"The Caribbean region is underserved and overlooked," says Gillian Marcelle of Resilience Capital Ventures.
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Electrification of vehicle fleets sparks disruption of energy and transportation
Falling battery costs are expected to make light-duty electric vehicles cost-competitive by about 2024. But over the full life cycle, the total cost of ownership of electric fleets already beats gasoline-powered fleets.
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Listen to customers, not hypesters, about the impact of energy access
Few would dispute that for many of the 840 million people without access to electricity globally, off-grid solutions will be essential to improving livelihoods for many of the poorest and most remote households and enterprises. That said, as impact-first investors, we should not be content with a headline and a picture of a satisfied rural
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Net-zero pledges by BP’s new chief raise the stakes for oil majors
“The world does have a carbon budget, it is finite, and we need a rapid transition to net zero,” said BP CEO Bernard Looney.
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