Husk Power Systems celebrate largest-ever equity raise in the mini-grid industry
Husk Power Systems has secured an equity and debt investment worth more than US$100 million to supercharge the growth of community solar minigrids in rural sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The company is a finalist in the 2023 Ashden Award for Integrated Energy Africa, having first won an Ashden Award more than a decade ago. […]
Guardians of the Land: new report helps funders back climate action by Indigenous Peoples
A new Ashden report will help climate funders empower Indigenous Peoples, securing a vital defence against climate change. Report overview Guardians of the Land shares key insights from five groundbreaking initiatives from the forests of Indonesia, Peru, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Brazil. These insights will support funders to identify and channel […]
2022 Ashden Award Winners
Organisations tackling the UK cost of living crisis, providing the skills for green jobs and those calling for finance for low-income countries to adapt to climate change were recognised at this year’s Ashden Awards. Eight winners from around the world collected their awards in front of a packed audience at the Royal Geographical Society in […]
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Solar Cold Rooms Help Struggling Strawberry Farmers Through India’s Lockdown
2021 has been a traumatic year for India’s farmers – coronavirus has slashed their incomes, and they face the impact of controversial new agriculture policies. Growers in the country’s strawberry capital are among those badly hit by the pandemic. But cutting-edge green technology has been a lifeline, protecting the small-scale farmers most at risk. Mahabaleshwar, […]
As Construction Booms, India Must Tackle Its AC Addiction
Construction in India is booming. Planners predict that 70 per cent of the buildings that will exist by 2030 are yet to be made. This construction frenzy has huge consequences for us all, not least because it will unleash a huge growth in the number of air conditioning (AC) units. Conventional AC units are a […]
Nepal: returning migrants lead a green recovery from coronavirus
Coronavirus has devastated Nepal. But sustainable construction NGO Build up Nepal is helping communities bounce back. The organisation is working with a growing network of returning migrants, including many young people, to ignite a green economic recovery in the country. Founder Björn Söderberg explains more. In March a strict five-month lockdown came into effect in Nepal, stopping almost all travel and economic activity. The country came to a halt. Companies closed. Millions lost their jobs. Hundreds of thousands of people returned to rural villages from cities in Nepal and beyond, often coming home […]
Yemen’s ‘microgrid girls’ power community amid war and COVID-19
By Veronique Mistiaen. This piece first appeared at Al Jazeera. “The role of women was housework only,” laments Huda Othman Hassan, a young woman from Abs, a rural district in the north of Yemen, near the border with Saudi Arabia. “Although we are educated and university graduates, we had no decision-making power and couldn’t work […]
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