Energy Peace Partners

As #COP29 came to a close last week, we reflect on our participation and the opportunity it provided to advance efforts that are core to our mission. Here are our key highlights: 1️⃣ We co-hosted a COP29 side event on “Renewable Energy and Peace” together with Stanley Center for Peace and Security, The Clingendael Institute, and The Stimson Center at ODI Global’s Climate, Peace and Transboundary Resilience Pavilion. This event was the third event in a series, building on meetings on this topic held in The Hague in June and in New York in September. Grateful to Hans Olav Ibrekk for his opening remarks and to our panelists Ulrich Eberle Laura E. Williamson Abdallah Alshamali Riaz Hamidullah and Ilina Stefanova, MBA. Listen to the event here (starting at 18:00): https://lnkd.in/gd7it4qD 2️⃣ In advance of the event above, Stanley Center and EPP co-hosted an informal working dinner to explore mainstreaming the renewable energy and peace agenda into current and future COP discussions. Attendees represented institutions across the renewable energy, climate and peacebuilding fields, reflecting an emerging set of partners in the climate policy community who recognize the interlinkages between peace, security, and climate for whom the renewable energy and peace framing provides added value. Thanks to Rei Tang, Mark M. Seaman and the rest of the Stanley Center team for facilitating such an inspiring conversation. 3️⃣ EPP participated in a roundtable on “Corporate Sourcing as a Catalyst for Clean Energy Finance,” co-hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Global Renewables Alliance (GRA). Grateful to Jake Oster and Bruce Douglas for moderating the conversation, which included a discussion on flexible market boundaries, the value of expanding stakeholder community considering this issue and conducting further research into potential environmental and social benefits. 4️⃣ This marked the third consecutive COP with an explicit focus on Peace as a thematic issue. We welcome the Baku Call for Peace, Relief and Recovery, which recognizes the interlinkages between conflict and climate change and calls for “peace-sensitive climate action, while scaling up support for the most vulnerable communities worldwide,” including through the creation of the Baku Climate and Peace Action Hub. However, there was no explicit mention of renewable energy, and there is much more to be done before the renewable energy and peace agenda is mainstreamed into climate discussions. We look forward to contributing our part at future COPs. 5️⃣ Finally, it was great to meet many old and new friends under one roof, including Elizabeth Press Zafar Samadov Ugochi Daniels Rebecca Collyer Mark Gibson Monica Ellena Itonde Kakoma Daniel Hyslop Travis Caddy Laura Pavlovic to name a few.

EPP developed research this fall in collaboration with Columbia | SIPA that will help corporate clean energy buyers better understand the geographic overlap between their value chains and fragile, energy poor countries. Buyers (and advisory firms) can use this new research to more easily determine which P-REC projects to prioritize based on the geographic match with their upstream "Scope 3" impacts. Learn more about EPP's new research here: https://lnkd.in/dEfhncBV A special thank you to our remarkable student team—Anushka Satyajit, Hayley F., Reid C., and Xiangxiang (Cheri) Chen—for their research and valuable contribution to EPP's work!

EPP developed research this fall in collaboration with Columbia | SIPA that will help corporate clean energy buyers better understand the geographic overlap between their value chains and fragile, energy poor countries. Buyers (and advisory firms) can use this new research to more easily determine which P-REC projects to prioritize based on the geographic match with their upstream "Scope 3" impacts. Learn more about EPP's new research here: https://lnkd.in/dEfhncBV A special thank you to our remarkable student team—Anushka Satyajit, Hayley F., Reid C., and Xiangxiang (Cheri) Chen—for their research and valuable contribution to EPP's work!

This Giving Tuesday, a donation to Energy Peace Partners supports communities affected by conflict and energy-poverty. https://lnkd.in/eTx65xuJ

EPP and Camco are thrilled to have been selected for the Catalytic Climate Finance Facility (CC Facility)'s second cohort!    CC Facility grant support will accelerate the launch of our P-REC Aggregation Facility (PAF), a USD 11 million pilot project finance facility that mobilizes capital for solar and hydro mini-grid projects across 14 fragile countries in Sub-Saharan Africa through the origination, aggregation, and sale of Peace Renewable Energy Certificates (Peace RECs).   The CC Facility is a partnership between Climate Policy Initiative and Convergence Blended Finance and funded by Global Affairs Canada | Affaires mondiales Canada, Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. It accelerates the implementation of high-impact, ready-to-scale financial structures through a suite of services that include grant funding, technical support, and a market-building learning hub. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/gF6YY3m4

Our #COP29 event on "Renewable Energy and Peace" starts soon! Join us today at the Climate, Peace and Transboundary Resilience Pavilion at 9am AZT or watch the event livestreamed here: https://lnkd.in/gK9ZT-6g The event will highlight the potential and opportunities for using renewable energy to advance peace efforts in fragile settings, and hopes to better link COP-led efforts on renewable energy with past and present COP efforts around peace. EPP is pleased to be co-hosting this event with Stanley Center for Peace and Security, The Clingendael Institute Institute and The Stimson Center. Speakers include:  - Hans Olav Ibrekk: Norwegian Special Envoy for Climate and Security - Ulrich Eberle: Project Director - Climate, Environment and Conflict, International Crisis Group -Laura E. Williamson, Senior Advisor, REN21 - Abdallah Alshamali: Policy and Projects Director, Global Solar Council - Riaz Hamidullah: Additional Foreign Secretary, Bangladesh Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Joseph Bartel: Undersecretary, South Sudan Ministry of Environment - Ilina Stefanova, MBA: Program Officer, IRENA  - Rei Tang: Program Officer - Climate Change, Stanley Ce nter for Peace and Security - Sherwin Das: Managing Director, Energy Peace Partners - David Mozersky: President, Energy Peace Partners

Honored to join an esteemed group of panelists at #COP29 for a session on "Corporate Sourcing as a Catalyst for Clean Energy Financing” convened by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Global Renewables Alliance (GRA). Stimulating discussion on how flexible market boundaries to existing carbon accounting rules can unleash private sector investment that advances renewable energy goals, accelerates decarbonization, and fosters an equitable energy transition, including in the fragile and energy poor countries where EPP is focused on unlocking catalytic climate finance. Grateful to Jake Oster and Bruce Douglas for co-hosting and looking forward to continuing the collaboration.

Join EPP at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan where on Friday, November 15 at 9:15 AM, we are co-hosting an important panel discussion on the ways renewable energy can drive peacebuilding in fragile regions. This side event will take place at ODI Global’s Climate, Peace, and Transboundary Resilience Pavilion (#F17) in the Blue Zone on COP29’s Peace, Relief, and Recovery Day. The discussion is informed by the ongoing collaboration of Energy Peace Partners,The Clingendael Institute, Stanley Center for Peace and Security, and The Stimson Center A recent policy brief from the organizers on “Why Renewable Energy Matters in the Context of Peace and Stability” is available: https://lnkd.in/gw7TBZEJ.b

We'll be at #COP29 this week to help advance efforts on renewable energy and peace. Join us at the Climate, Peace and Transboundary Resilience Pavilion at 9am AZT on 15 November for an event on "Renewable Energy and Peace", or watch us on livestream here: https://lnkd.in/eaHMujMH #CPTPavilion The event will highlight the potential and opportunities for using renewable energy to advance peace efforts in fragile settings, and hopes to better link COP-led efforts on renewable energy with past and present COP efforts around peace. EPP is pleased to be co-hosting this event with Stanley Center for Peace and Security, The Clingendael Institute and The Stimson Center. Speakers include: - Hans Olav Ibrekk: Norwegian Special Envoy for Climate and Security - Ulrich Eberle: Project Director - Climate, Environment and Conflict, International Crisis Group - Abdallah Alshamali: Policy and Projects Director, Global Solar Council - Riaz Hamidullah: Additional Foreign Secretary, Bangladesh Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Joseph Bartel: Undersecretary, South Sudan Ministry of Environment - Ilina Stefanova, MBA: Program Officer, IRENA - Rei Tang: Program Officer - Climate Change, Stanley Center for Peace and Security - Sherwin Das: Managing Director, Energy Peace Partners - David Mozersky: President, Energy Peace Partners

Why does renewable energy matter in the context of peace and stability? Energy access rates in many fragile and conflict-affected states are often extremely low, hindering socioeconomic development. Decentralized renewable energy can help to foster stability and to integrate climate, energy, and peace-building efforts. This requires de-risking investments and emphasizing local peace-related benefits of renewable energy projects. Learn more in the full policy brief here: https://lnkd.in/eaX3EzJP Also, a special thank you to our friends at The Clingendael Institute and Stanley Center for Peace and Security for their collaboration on this work.