This slide deck, part of an online course, gives a brief but thorough overview of business models for off-grid solar energy, looking in particular at pay-as-you-go models, and presents insights into the investment landscape for off-grid solar companies.
Government spending and other forms of actual support to renewable energy is a blind spot at the international level. To help address the knowledge gap, IISD developed an inventory of public financial support for renewable energy generation and integration by G20 governments. It shows that G20 governments provided over $168 billion in public financial support […]
Despite strong calls for energy subsidy reforms, governments around the world still spend billions subsidising fossil fuel consumption each year. This report investigates how reforms can be designed that work in practice, drawing on over a decade of World Bank experience supporting these processes.
This page provides an introduction to energy transition challenges in the industrial sector. It also tracks progress, presents data and lists seven key recommendations to policymakers and businesses.
The Industrial Deep Decarbonisation Initiative, established by the UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the Clean Energy Ministerial, is a coalition of governments and companies. Among its goals, it seeks to motivate governments, which are major buyers of steel, cement and concrete for infrastructure projects, to apply sustainable procurement principles and prioritise the buying of […]
This report assesses the effectiveness of women in energy networks worldwide and offers best practices and recommendations for networks under development or those aiming to enhance their impact.
This report provides baseline data on women’s employment in solar energy, as well as information on barriers to gender equality and recommendations to close gender gaps.
This guide provides principles and step-by-step instructions for the establishment of regional/national networks for women working in energy
This is a network of women in renewable energy in the Dominican Republic. It has published several reports and organises events on gender equality in the national energy sector.
This market assessment describes the off-grid energy market in Cameroon.