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Tide of support for Climate Knowledge Manifesto
Sigmund Kluckner, the Coordinator of the Climate Knowledge Brokers Group, provides a round-up of the astonishing response received by the Group’s ‘Manifesto’ since it was launched some eight months ago. Could delivering the ...
Sida PFAN Initiative on Clean Energy Financing Accepting Applications
The Sida PFAN Initiative on Clean Energy Financing (SPICEF) seeks to nurture entrepreneurs, start-up and existing companies, project teams and consortia with environmentally beneficial business proposals with the aim of linking...
The Private Finance Gap: Challenges and Opportunities
At the Paris COP21, an expert panel including REEEP's Martin Hiller and Peter Storey of CTI-PFAN looked at the challenges and opportunities to scaling-up private financing for adaptation projects in the developing world.
Rockefeller Foundation and REEEP to investigate lessons of mini-grid market development in India
Since 2010, The Rockefeller Foundation has been working to expand access to electricity in India through a model utilising mini-grids for lighting and productive use. In 2014, The Rockefeller Foundation significantly intensified...
UNIDO and REEEP join hands to co-host the next generation of PFAN to accelerate private financing for clean energy businesses in the developing world
VIENNA, 26 November, 2015.
REEEP at COP 21
The 21st Conference of the Parties, the most momentous COP in nearly two decades, begins on November 30th, 2015. REEEP will be participating in the following events at Le Bourget.
IRENA and DTU Launch World’s Most Detailed Wind Resource Data
The most detailed data and statistics on global wind energy potential are now available online, thanks to a free resource launched today by IRENA and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). The Global Wind Atlas provides wind...
REEEP Kenya Ventures Announced as Powering Agriculture Innovators
REEEP is proud to announce that two ventures from its Powering Agrifood Value Chains 2015 Portfolio have been announced as 2015 Innovators of the Powering Agriculture Energy Grand Challenge for Development (PAEGC). Sunculture and...
Solar, the “sleeping lion” in Africa
With the vast majority of its population still energy poor, Africa is uniquely placed to leapfrog fossil fuel dependence and exploit its abundant natural resources in the form of sunlight, hydropower and wind. WWF and REEEP co-...
Climate organizations call for renewed efforts to communicate climate change knowledge and spur action
This year marked the 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which swept through America’s Gulf coast, wreaking a staggering USD 108 billion in damage and killing more than 1,800 people. In May of 2015, a heatwave in India cost...
Mobilising the Private Sector for Renewable Development
“We often hear talk of routes, pathways and roadmaps toward a low carbon future,” began Martin Hiller, Director General of the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP), in his introduction to a panel discussion...
REEEP Announces 2015-2017 Powering Agrifood Value Chains Portfolio
The Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) announced the nine ventures taking part in its newest clean energy development portfolio, Powering Agrifood Value Chains. These enterprises are bringing clean energy...
Plugging into the Climate Knowledge Grid
“We are not far away from the climate talks in Paris and I’m frightened by the information overload that awaits people there. How will they cut through it all?”
REEEP Annual Report 2014/2015
REEEP invests in clean energy markets. The REEEP Annual Report 2014/2015 explains REEEP's strategy and overarching theory of change, and takes a close look at REEEP's Cross Sector Systems focal area, through which REEEP brings...