Op-Eds
Dec 06, 2021
Why the Climate Panic About Africa Is Wrong
Originally appeared in Foreign Policy, December 6, 2021. As climate pledges pile up, a worrying theme is emerging...
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Memo
Jun 23, 2023
Time for Africa to Assert its Energy Sovereignty: A Call to Africa’s Leaders Ahead of COP28
Blog
May 18, 2020
Solar’s Future, India’s Mega-Market, and Why Saying No Isn’t a Viable Energy Strategy: Q&A with Varun Sivaram
Varun Sivaram heads anyone’s short list of global solar power experts. A physicist, best-selling author and clean energy technology expert with experience spanning the corporate, policy and academic sectors, Sivaram was most recently the CTO of ReNew Power, India’s largest renewable energy firm. His 2018 book, Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet, was heralded by the Financial Times as “the best available overview of where the industry finds itself today, and a road map for how it can reach that brighter future.”
Media Coverage
Oct 25, 2023
Cipher
In poorer nations, coal persists despite energy transition efforts →
Multimedia
Jul 06, 2021
Episode #7 Rebekah Shirley: Small Island Nations are Hypervisible & Hyper Invisible
The director of research, data & innovation for WRI Africa talks with Katie & Rose about climate justice…
Media Coverage
Nov 09, 2022
NPR
Investors have trillions to fight climate change. Developing nations get little of it →
Op-Eds
Sep 30, 2018
ERSS: Signalling, governance, and goals: Reorienting the United States Power Africa initiative
Originally in Energy Research & Social Science: Power Africa, the United States’ effort to boost electrification on the continent launched…
Op-Eds
Aug 06, 2024
Foreign Policy
Washington Needs to Up Its Power Game
The United States needs better tools to bolster global energy security.
Multimedia
Apr 06, 2022
Episode #12 Uzodinma Iweala: Climate Justice Demands New African Narratives
Iweala, CEO of The Africa Center, discusses the experiences and identities that led him to narrative work, how…
Blog
Oct 30, 2024
Clean Energy in Africa (Still) Has a Dirty Image Problem
A lot of the energy and climate world seems stuck using images that are tired clichés, in poor taste, or even straight-up racist.
Memo
Dec 13, 2022
Desalination: A future energy demand driver
Op-Eds
Sep 26, 2018
Foreign Affairs: Can Nigeria Solve Its Energy Crisis?
Nigeria is home to one in every five Africans and it has the continent’s largest economy. More than half of Nigerians are under 20 years old. Whether all these bright young people will drive growth or generate instability depends largely on whether Nigeria’s economy can produce jobs for them. And Nigeria won’t be able to create jobs at the required pace until it solves its energy crisis.
Blog
Nov 12, 2021
What did COP26 deliver for energy poor nations? Our five Big Takeaways
Plenty of hot takes from Glasgow. Here are ours: The Big Story: African leaders stepped up to argue…
Media Coverage
Jan 26, 2021
Axios Generate
1 Big Thing: Rethinking power in developing nations →
Multimedia
Apr 26, 2021
Episode #2 Zainab Usman: What Does Net-Zero Mean for Africans?
The new director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Africa Program on why resource curse thinking is…
