A U.S.-China Breakthrough for the Planet — and New Economic Growth
The forecast for climate change has been undeniably altered overnight — positive news for the planet and for economic growth. U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping, the leaders...
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Behind the numbers: China-U.S. climate announcement's implications for...
The past five weeks have given us what may be defining moments on the road to a Paris agreement that will lay a foundation for a future climate regime. On October 23, European Union leaders committed...
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Oil exporters must shift capital stock to renewables
Oil pumps, in southern Russia. Photo: Gennadiy Kolodkin / World Bank As the Financial Times pointed out recently, oil companies such as Exxon Mobil and Shell would, under measures considered for the...
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Corridors for Shared Prosperity: A Case for Replication
For those trying to address challenges in global poverty, inclusive businesses offer solutions to some of the world’s most intractable social problems. Business models that create value for the...
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Delivering at scale, empowering transformation
In 2014, Tajikistan applied climate analysis to maximize investments in an aging hydropower system upon which half a million people depend. Morocco continued the phased development of a 500 MW...
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Lighting rural Bangladesh with rooftop solar & carbon credits
In the village of Aharkandhi in northeastern Bangladesh, life has changed since homeowners began installing solar panels on their roofs. At night, families gather at the local grocery store to watch...
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Updating the renewable energy lexicon
A just-published report by the World Bank’s Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) on the integration of variable renewable energy (VRE) into national grid systems shows once again that...
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Tackling climate change – for our kids
If you have children or grandchildren, you probably have wondered what the world will be like for them in 20 or 30 years. Will it be a better place? Will climate change upend their lives? It's...
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Getting to 100% renewable: dream or reality?
Attending the Future of Energy Summit last month, an annual event hosted by Bloomberg New Energy Finance, I was struck – for the second year running – by the rapid pace of cost reductions and...
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Energy analytics for access, efficiency and development
Image from Chris Chopyak, who captured the workshop in simple designs and strategic illustrations What do Open and Big Data principles and advanced analytics have to do with energy access and...
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Clean energy, not coal, is the solution to poverty
It is the development conundrum of our era. Extremely poor people cannot lift themselves out of poverty without access to reliable energy. More than a billion people live without power today, denying...
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Solar energy brings smiles to healthy babies and happy farmers
Also available in: Español | Français | العربية Last month, I met an obstetrician in India and in the course of conversation, asked her how many babies she had delivered. “After ten thousand babies, I...
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What will it take to deepen the renewable energy transformation?
Also available in: Español | Français | العربية Those of us who have been working on climate change over the years have witnessed a number of encouraging announcements as a run-up to the Paris COP,...
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The sunny side of PPPs: Rooftop solar, public-private partnerships, and the...
In 1899 American Ada Blenkhorn—inspired by a disabled nephew—wrote the popular folk song Keep On the Sunny Side. As legend would have it, Blenkhorn’s nephew always wanted his wheelchair pushed down the...
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Boosting clean tech to power a low-carbon future
Global warming can be limited by reducing or avoiding greenhouse gases stemming from human activities—particularly in the energy, industry, transport, and building sectors—which together account for...
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De-risking climate-smart investments
The city of Ouarzazate in Morocco will host what will become one of the largest solar power plants in the world. Photo: CIF / World Bank The investment needs for low-carbon, climate-resilience growth...
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Morocco raises stakes on combating climate change
While responsible for only a small share of global emissions, the country is taking big steps to curb them. In the next few weeks, Morocco is preparing to commission the first phase of what will be...
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It is time to be climate operational
The world forged a historic climate deal in Paris on Saturday, cheered on and celebrated by people around the world. Getting to that agreement has involved years of work and collaboration that resulted...
View ArticleTwelve energy stories you enjoyed reading in 2015
What are some stories that caught your attention in 2015? They are ones that focus on people, data and events tied to sustainable growth, climate action and efforts to end energy poverty. As we look...
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Renewable energy export-import: a win-win for the EU and North Africa
Also available in: Arabic | French | SpanishRows of solar panel at a thermo-solar power plant in Morocco. (Photo: Dana Smillie / World Bank) Over the past several years much has been written about the...
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