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Greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector are growing faster than any other energy-end-use sector. A shift towards renewable energy is pivotal to reducing reliance on fossil fuels. With the experience of supporting startups around the world under the @SOLUTIONS_EU, has established a network of startups in Kenya of which 9 exhibited at the UN-Habitat (United Nations Human Settlements Programme) Assembly from 5-9 June. #UNHA2 #Act4urban #Act4cities #greenhousegasemissions eBee.africa

The recent #TEA Forum24 underscored a pivotal message: partnerships are the backbone of scaling clean energy solutions. Collaboration across sectors is essential to drive innovative financing structures and gender-intentional approaches that empower women and drive the clean #EnergyTransition. This time last month, Shell Foundation 's team attended the Transforming Energy Access (TEA) Forum in Kigali, #Rwanda. The Forum, hosted by UK's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, and The The Carbon Trust, brought together like-minded individuals, strategic partners, and businesses in the clean energy transition sector. Thisant milestone as the first in-person TEA meeting since 2019. Our collaboration with the FCDO and the Carbon Trust through the TEA Platform has been driving progress. The Transforming Inclusive Energy Markets (TIME) initiative, co-funded by Shell Foundation and FCDO, has highlighted the power of the strategic partnership by: ✅️ Providing 22.6 million individuals with improved clean energy access. Making 116 funding interventions to support scalable energy solutions. ✅️ Leveraging £896 million in additional capital from both private and public sectors. ✅️ Producing 78 comprehensive research products, enriching the sector with valuable data. These results illustrate the benefits of strategic partnerships and innovative financing in scaling clean energy solutions. The TEA Forum also reinforced the need to make the clean energy transition work for everyone through inclusive #EnergyAccess. Read the full story: https://lnkd.in/dEgrmtv5 #Impactinvesting #Partnerships #CleanEnergy CrossBoundary Group Odyssey Energy Solutions EchoVC Partners Ayrton Fund Carbon Value Exchange SunCulture Jonathan Berman

🎉 CarbonCrop, the SaaS company driving forest restoration through carbon markets, have secured fresh investments from NZVC, Agnition Ventures (Ravensdown), and the Aspire NZ Seed Fund (Aspire), alongside existing backer K1W1. 🔥🔥 This funding bolsters their expansion efforts in New Zealand and international markets. 🛩️🌄 CarbonCrop's mission is to make carbon markets transparent and accountable in the primary sector. 🌳💪 The investment will further refine their data-driven forest carbon platform, enabling efficient recognition and incentivization of forest carbon removals. Co-founder Nick Butcher stresses the importance of combining data and automation with human expertise to address climate change effectively. 🌲 🌍 Learn more about CarbonCrop: https://hubs.li/Q026vLDM0 #ClimateInnovation #CarbonCrop #ForestRestoration #AIforGood Jo Blundell kiwiSaaS Community

We are thrilled to announce that a week ago Khantša Energy has been selected among the semi-finalists of the Global Cleantech Innovation Programme (GCIP)-Lesotho ! This is a United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) led flagship initiative to advance cleantech innovation and entrepreneurship for climate action in Lesotho. The primary aim of this project is to enhance the readiness of Lesotho’s private sector to develop, commercialize, and invest in climate and clean energy (cleantech) solutions, as well as to maximize the economic growth opportunities embedded therein, while supporting Lesotho in reaching its #NDCtargets. We are thrilled at the prospect of jointly confronting the challenges that Lesotho’s private sector faces such as the limited capacity to innovate, develop and deploy home-grown technology and business solutions to address climate and energy challenges. While there may be technology innovations and business ideas stemming from universities, research labs, and SMEs, there is no system or culture of support at the national level to nurture a pool of cleantech solutions into profitable business models, which can provide competitive alternatives to carbon-intensive options in the market. Adding to the challenge is the current policy and legal framework, which does not adequately incentivize private sector investments in the cleantech sector. In addition, the market conditions are not favorable for investments into cleantech solutions. We would like to take this moment to acknowledge the efforts and support of UNIDO, Government of Lesotho, GCF Readiness and Preparatory Support Programme. Lastly, we would like to congratulate our fellow Lesotho semi-finalists by echoing Henry Ford's philosophy, "'If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself."  #GCIPLesotho #cleantech #innovation #sustainability #greenenergy #entrepreneurship #innovation #sustainabledevelopment #cleanenergy

Greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector are growing faster than any other energy-end-use sector. A shift towards renewable energy is pivotal to reducing reliance on fossil fuels. With the experience of supporting startups around the world under the @SOLUTIONS_EU, has established a network of startups in Kenya of which 9 exhibited at the UN-Habitat (United Nations Human Settlements Programme) Assembly from 5-9 June. #UNHA2 #Act4urban #Act4cities #greenhousegasemissions eBee.africa

Tied to EEP Africa investment committee meetings in Helsinki, excellent exchanges today at this knowledge sharing event on how to bridge the investment gap for clean energy access in Sub-Saharan Africa. Many thanks to Nordic Development Fund (NDF) and Finnfund for hosting and bringing all these actors together! #cleanenergy #renewables #energyaccess #investment #sdg7

SWIFT Program Update! Meet the exceptional entrepreneurs selected for the inaugural Sustainable Waste Innovation for a Future in Transition (SWIFT) Program Accelerator Cohort. Over the next 18 months, these innovators will receive personalized support aimed at: a) Accelerating their business growth. b) Preparing them to be investor-ready and secure follow-on investments. Participants will benefit from comprehensive business advisory services, mentorship, technical assistance, and financing options, including repayable grants and external funding opportunities. This support is designed to drive significant positive change in the #wastemanagement sector. The SWIFT Program, a collaborative initiative by Kenya Climate Innovation Center (KCIC) and the IKEA Foundation, is dedicated to transforming Kenya's waste management landscape. By providing tailored business support to waste enterprises and enhancing national waste management policies, we aim to foster a sustainable, circular economy. Stay tuned for more updates as we embark on this transformative journey together! #SWIFTprogramme #WasteInnovation #CircularEconomy

📢 Today, we’re showcasing one of the UNIDO ITPO Italy's inspiring “FIPEE Call for High Impact Cleantech” winners, Norah Magero, and her #solution – Drop Access Ltd. Norah was one of #CleantechDays-invited #innovators, and we were extremely excited to learn more about her journey!   Drop Access is a youth & women-led enterprise from Kenya that provides #CleanEnergy to rural communities to promote #ClimateResilience, economic development, equitable access to basic amenities & reduce carbon emissions. It links rural farmers to energy providers, mapping out the locations of these farmers and end-users and assessing their viability to optimally benefit from existing technology. The company also provides affordable solar-powered refrigerators for households, business & healthcare as well as trains rural women on how to use renewable technologies. 🚀Norah’s #solution has the potential to provide 2 MW of solar pumping by 2024 and +1,000 jobs for youth and women across Africa! 🔗Read more about it here: http://www.dropaccess.org/ 𝑾𝑯𝑨𝑻 𝑰𝑺 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑭𝑰𝑷𝑬𝑬 𝑪𝑨𝑳𝑳 𝑭𝑶𝑹 𝑯𝑰𝑮𝑯-𝑰𝑴𝑷𝑨𝑪𝑻 𝑪𝑳𝑬𝑨𝑵𝑻𝑬𝑪𝑯?🤔 UNIDO ITPO Italy's FIPEE Call accelerated high-impact cleantech #startups and #MSMEs from #Botswana, #Cuba, #Ethiopia, #Kenya and #Peru, to tackle the most urgent global issues in energy and environment. The selection process and methodology of the FIPEE Acceleration Programme were primarily based on the #GCIP approach. A total of 59 projects were identified in 2021. 👉More about the winners & the programme here: https://shorturl.at/xEJKV

The GETF is calling for Expressions of Interest (EOI) from private for-profit businesses registered in Malawi to participate in its first round of competition, ‘Accelerating Alternative Sources of Energy and Fuel Efficient Solutions’. A financing mechanism providing matching grant finance for green and inclusive business solutions, the GETF is led by the private sector to counter the lack of alternative sources of energy and fuel efficient products, services, solutions and business models. The GETF will provide matching grants and tailored technical assistance (on request) of between US$ 40,000 and US$ 300,000 to test the commercial viability of new products, services, technologies in the green business sector, which if successful, will be able to deliver large environmental and social impact.  https://lnkd.in/dG4PXSAF #sdgs

Really proud of the founders we backed in 2023. Learn more 👇 Already off to the races in 2024 with three new stellar deals closing in Feb. Between Africa Tech Summit and the upcoming Foro Latinoamericano de Inversión de Impacto, feeling (cautiously) that the momentum is back in many of our key markets. Major shifts in regulation, carbon markets and supply chain strategy are creating tailwinds for impactful startups building across agtech, fintech and climate tech.