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Feb 28, 2022
Episode #9 Sudeshna Ghosh Banerjee: Decarbonization is a Very Long Game
Banerjee, practice manager in the Energy and Extractives Global Practice at the World Bank Group, talks with Katie…
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Jun 21, 2023
Tyranny of the (Anti-Nuclear) Minority at the World Bank
Who's really against nuclear power? Here are the numbers.
Multimedia
Apr 21, 2022
Episode #13 Moussa Blimpo: Energy is Not the Answer to Everything
Blimpo, Senior Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Munk’s School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, discusses his…
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Sep 27, 2021
The DFC, World Bank, and how a nuanced compromise on gas financing for poor countries could quietly become a blanket ban (hint: ask the Kosovars)
The debate over whether development finance should be allowed for downstream gas projects appears to be settling toward…
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May 21, 2021
Episode #4 Mimi Alemayehou: Climate Justice Means Africa Needs More Energy Investment
The former OPIC, African Development Bank and Black Rhino Group official tells Katie & Rose why she’s frustrated…
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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…
Podcast
Nov 15, 2023
Episode #15 Vijaya Ramachandran: Every Country Has the Right to Its Own Energy Choices
Multimedia
Apr 26, 2021
Episode #1 Mohamed Rali Badissy: Power-Sector Transparency & Energy Access
Mohamed explains why transparency is an overlooked issue in addressing energy poverty, why he thinks decarbonization will increase…
Memo
Feb 14, 2022
Imagining the ‘Google’ of electrification: how digital twins and computational systems for continuous planning can reinvent century-old practices
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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.”
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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…
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Apr 17, 2024
For Sustainable Mini-Grids, Development Funders Must Change the Way They Structure Subsidies and Do More to Stimulate Demand
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May 03, 2021
Do major DFIs finance fossil fuels?
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Apr 18, 2024
Devex
World Bank, AfDB aim to bring electricity to 300 million Africans →
The plan, which is a partnership with the African Development Bank, would halve the number of people living without electricity on the continent by 2030.
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Apr 14, 2023
Politico
The climate change debate dividing the World Bank →
Addressing climate change by transitioning the world’s power grids, automobiles and industries to greener sources will cost trillions — and Janet Yellen and European authorities have no desire for massive new spending right now.