LIVE at #COP29 | Nearly 600 million people in Africa lack access to basic electricity, affecting nearly every aspect of daily life. Makhtar Diop, Jacqueline Novogratz (Acumen) and Akihiko Nishio discuss how innovative financing approaches, such as specialized funds, can mobilize capital to expand access to affordable and sustainable electricity in the hardest-to-reach places. #PoweringAfrica
🌍 LIVE from #COP29: A conversation on innovative financing solutions to accelerate access to electricity, featuring a fireside chat with IFC Managing Director Makhtar Diop and Acumen Founder/CEO Jacqueline Novogratz. Watch to learn how innovative financing approaches such as specialized funds can mobilize capital to expand access to affordable and sustainable electricity in the hardest-to-reach places.
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15hIt is not about finance. Money will enter one door, and exit thru other door, because it is the nature of financing this type of issues. It is about real limitations to polluters like the 140,000 flights per day worldwide (source Flightradar 24), just to mention one example. How to ask for more money if almost everybody is waiting for the first available opportunity to catch a plane? Did “someone” hear about mass turism? 1.5 bn people moving around the world this year. That is pollution. Financing will not prevent any disaster.