💛 NEW PAPER ALERT 💛 Our teams have been very busy with publications recently and here is another useful addition to the resources available to anyone working on #sustainableecononomicgrowth #cleanenergytransition and #climateentrepreneurship in #theglobalsouth. LMICs on the front lines of climate change impacts, rely on #entrepreneurs to provide critical adaptation services (eg in the agricultural and energy sectors). However, the perspectives, motivations, and approaches of climate entrepreneurs are minimally documented, which prevents replication of their effective strategies at scale. This study therefore investigates the experiences of climate adaptation entrepreneurs in #Kenya. We find that entrepreneurs are motivated to address climate adaptation issues both due to market gaps and their own underlying ideals and values. They report that their businesses are already creating simultaneous environmental, economic, and social impact at a small scale. However, they face a lack of appropriate finance and technical capacity to support scaled-up implementation of innovation-heavy emerging climate technologies. Due to a lack of awareness among consumers and regulators, they report resistance to novel offerings and both over- and under-regulation (ie a lack of technology-specific regulation while being bound to outdated regulation in multiple adjacent sectors eg energy, agriculture, transport). Read the whole paper here: https://lnkd.in/esJFN8xb It was written by: Alycia Leonard Kuthea Nguti (Ph.D.) Faith N. Tonny Kukeera and Stephanie Hirmer
Rebecca Clube
3mo
Congrats Alycia Leonard and team, looking forward to reading!
Energy Research Assistant
3moWhat an insightful piece - climate entrepreneurs are some of the most important people in frontline climate adaptation, so it's good to identify the challenges they are facing, and scale up their solutions!