EMP-Global Impact #5
This time we're talk to Peace Peters who is a climate entrepreneur from Nigeria. His start-up company is called Lone Wolf Energy and aims to help reduce the pressure on the grid in Nigeria by moving large manufacturers to their…
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CCG Bootcamps add another dimension to Capacity-Building
Rudolf Yeganyan – who has been leading our energy modelling and capacity-building activities for three years now, explains the latest development aimed at supporting countries to empower themselves in their energy planning and policy decisions. One of the barriers…
Looking back on COP29’s impact on Sustainable Transport
Holger Dalkmann, who leads CCG's work on Sustainable Transport, shares his reflections on COP29 and looks forward to next year in Brazil. Holger Dalkmann is on the back row, in the centre of this photograph. I attended COP (supported by…
EMP-GLOBAL IMPACT #4
We speak to Felix Akello, who is an Energy and Environment Specialist working with the County Government of Kisumu – one of 47 sub-national governments in Kenya. Kisumu County hosts the City of Kisumu which is the third largest city…
EMP Impact #3 Cynthia Omondi, PhD Student
We talk to Cynthia Omondi who attended the OnSSET track at the EMP-G in Trieste recently, as a very active participant in the debates there. She shares her views on the energy situation in her native Kenya as well as…
Meet the Team Behind the Paper: Carla Cannone and Elizabeth Tennyson on “Addressing Challenges in Long-Term Strategic Energy Planning in LMICs”
Carla Cannone and Elizabeth Tennyson are co-lead authors of a new paper that reveals critical gaps in the current approaches to energy planning in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). The paper also introduces a framework to address these challenges. This…
GIS-based method for assessing the viability of solar-powered irrigation
A new research paper by Daniel Mutia Mwendwa, Alycia Leonard and Stephanie Hirmer is the start of a project that could see significant increases in crop yields by using water more efficiently across Kenya and other countries where drought is a major factor. Here,…
Meet the CCG Team #2 – Dr Alex Money
Alex Money is the leader of CCG’s Investment Pipeline team, using his professional experience in investment management and enterprise sustainability to address one of the biggest issues in climate change – how to mobilize much-needed climate finance. Tell us about…
MEET THE CCG TEAM #1 Prof Sam Fankhauser
“To scale down dirty and to scale up clean”. Sam Fankhauser - Professor of Climate Economics and Policy at Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment - University of Oxford - discusses the work of CCG’s Economics and Policy team,…
Women in Climate Change 9 – Professor Winnie Mitullah.
Professor Winnie V. Mitullah is a Research Professor of Development Studies at the Institute for Development Studies (IDS), University of Nairobi. She is also UNESCO UNITWIN Chair. She is a Doctor of Philosophy (Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies, University of…