DFC And Rockefeller Foundation Sign MOU to Invest in Solutions to End Energy Poverty 22nd Dec 2020 | Source: DFC Press
MOU will help empower some of the world’s most vulnerable people and support Covid-19 recovery by delivering reliable electricity
Focus on distributed renewable energy will help deliver power to remote communities
The Rockefeller Foundation and U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) today announced they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to work to end energy poverty by promoting investment in Distributed Renewable Energy (DRE) around the world. The MOU will focus on delivering reliable, sustainable electricity to the 800 million people worldwide who currently lack electricity, and 2.8 billion more who have unreliable access, to support economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and foster long-term economic growth.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Jared Kushner, senior adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, participate in a tree-planting ceremony at the Grove of Nations in Jerusalem, Dec. 21, 2020.
Jared Kushner, senior adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, said that Jerusalem is not a source of division, but rather the key to peace in the Middle East, at a tree-planting ceremony at the Grove of Nations in Jerusalem on Monday.
âJerusalem is not the cause of the problem, it is the core of the solution,â said the presidential son-in-law. While âsome have used the cause of Jerusalem to divide, Jerusalem remains proudly open.â
UPDATE 2-Morocco hosts Israeli envoys, Kushner to flesh out new relations Reuters 12/22/2020
By Ahmed Eljechtimi
RABAT, Dec 22 (Reuters) - Israeli envoys arrived in Morocco on Tuesday to meet the king and flesh out an upgrade of relations that was forged by the White House in a parting foreign policy push by U.S. President Donald Trump.
Led by National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat, the Israeli delegation was accompanied by Jared Kushner, Trump s son-in-law and architect of pan-Arab rapprochement with Israel.
They took El Al Israel Airlines in the first direct flight by a commercial plane from Tel Aviv to Rabat. Both countries anticipate a surge in tourism aboard such connections, mainly among the hundreds of thousands of Israelis of Moroccan descent.
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US body announces $54 million investment in India to support infrastructure projects
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US body announces $54 million investment in India to support infrastructure projects
PTI / Updated: Dec 23, 2020, 01:08 IST
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WASHINGTON: An American financial corporation on Tuesday announced that it will invest USD 54 million in India to support the development of critical infrastructure projects in the country in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
India is one of the fastest growing countries in the previous three decades, but it suffers from a significant infrastructure deficit, holding back further growth for the country especially in the wake of Covid-19, US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) said.