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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...

Better Metrics and Data

Memo Jun 23, 2023

Time for Africa to Assert its Energy Sovereignty: A Call to Africa’s Leaders Ahead of COP28

Habiba Ahut Daggash, Jabri Ibrahim

Shaping Energy Transitions

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.”

Todd Moss, Varun Sivaram

Future of Energy Tech

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…

Making Markets Work

Media Coverage Nov 09, 2022 NPR

Investors have trillions to fight climate change. Developing nations get little of it →

Better Metrics and Data

Making Markets Work

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…

Rose Mutiso, Katie Auth, Rebekah Shirley

Better Metrics and Data

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…

Rose Mutiso, Katie Auth, Uzodinma Iweala

Better Metrics and Data

Memo Dec 13, 2022

Desalination: A future energy demand driver

Mohamed Alhaj

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.