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Jan 26 2021

Press Releases

Energy for Growth Hub and The Rockefeller Foundation Call for Adoption of New Energy Poverty Metric

Global research network argues for ten-fold increase in the minimum acceptable level of energy access. Washington, D.C.– The Energy for Growth Hub, the non-profit global network of researchers, advocates and policymakers …

Jan 26 2021

Raising Global Energy Ambitions: The 1,000 kWh Modern Energy Minimum

Energy is fundamental to modern living and economic prosperity. The current global crisis has exposed stark inequalities and raised the urgency of providing modern energy for everyone. Energy is a …

Power Global

Jan 20 2021

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Raising Energy Ambitions: The Modern Energy Minimum

Dec 21 2020

Press Releases

DFC And The Rockefeller Foundation Sign MOU to Invest in Solutions to End Energy Poverty

MOU will help empower some of the world’s most vulnerable people and support Covid-19 recovery by delivering reliable electricity Focus on distributed renewable energy will help deliver power to remote communities Washington, …

Dec 18 2020

Press Releases

The Rockefeller Foundation Commits to Divesting from Fossil Fuels

NEW YORK | December 18, 2020 – The Rockefeller Foundation announces a commitment to divesting its $5 billion endowment from existing fossil fuel interests while refraining from future fossil fuel …

Dec 15 2020

Perspective

How Governments Can Create a Green, Job-rich Global Recovery

Climate change and the Covid-19 crisis have a great deal in common. Both are human tragedies and economic catastrophes: The pandemic has taken more than a million lives, thrown hundreds of millions out of …

Dec 11 2020

Video

Powering a Green and Equitable Recovery

Dec 10 2020

Press Releases

The Rockefeller Foundation Announces Call to Action to Provide Sustainable Energy for One Billion People by 2030

Development finance, global energy, and multilateral agencies commit to accelerate electrification as the cornerstone of an equitable, global economic recovery https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/call-for-a-green-equitable-recovery NEW YORK | December 10, 2020 – The Rockefeller Foundation today …

Dec 09 2020

Powering an Inclusive Covid-19 Recovery

Compounding the enormous suffering caused by Covid-19 illnesses and deaths, the world is facing the largest peacetime shock to the global economy in a century. Past crises opened windows of …

Power Global

Dec 03 2020

Press Releases

New Global Commission To End Energy Poverty Report Calls For Urgent Action As Part Of An Equitable Economic Recovery

More than 100 million people have seen their electricity access severed in 2020 because they couldn’t pay their bills during the pandemic December 3, 2020 | NEW YORK – The Global …

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