Subsidies often don’t help women much at all and reforms provide an opportunity to better target support By Shruti Sharma, Laura Merrill, Christopher Beaton and Lucy Kitson This blog was originally published on Climate Home, June 15, 2016 Consumer subsidies on fossil fuels around the world totalled about USD 500 billion in 2014. Although such policies […]
This blog was originally posted by ENERGIA partner Solar Sister. Solar Sister was founded on the premise that investing in women is not only the right thing to do, it’s the smart thing to do. The recent assessment by International Center for Research on Women on Solar Sister’s unique women-entrepreneur model highlights the ways in which gender equality, economic empowerment + clean […]
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Women around the world bring much more to the table when it comes to clean energy than their roles as homemakers. writes Joan MacNaughton, Executive Chair of the World Energy Trilemma, World Energy Council. While climate change has been recognized as an urgent, global issue, the relevance of increasing the visibility of women in clean energy as […]
Current research and practices on how climate finance can serve the energy needs of the poor Achieving access to energy for all is essential in order to eliminate global poverty. This is reflected in Sustainable Development Goal 7 on pro- poor and renewable energy. In addition to […]
Yesterday, on the first day of the Asia Clean Energy Forum (ACEF), ENERGIA jointly hosted a deep dive session exploring how gender and socially inclusive approaches for energy access are integral to bringing clean energy solutions to the last mile. In partnership with the World Bank Group, Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, ADB and Energy for […]
This new issue of ENERGIA News is dedicated to ENERGIA’s Gender and Energy Research Programme. Our gender and energy research programme runs from February 2014 to February 2019 with financial support from the UK Department for International Development (DFID). It aims to generate and analyse empirical evidence on the links between gender, energy and poverty, and to translate this evidence […]
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