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At the Summit on Clean Cooking for Africa on May 14, 2024 in Paris, France, World Resources Institute (WRI) and the Clean Cooking Alliance (CCA) announced a strategic partnership to further embed clean cooking into a broad range of sustainable development initiatives across the two organisations.
Madhav Pai spoke to indianexpress.com on the tech tools developed by WRI India, their work with startups, the challenges of clean energy transition, issues with urban transit and the need to collect large amounts of data to make meaningful policy changes.
While electricity access is growing in sub-Saharan Africa, consumption is not. An emerging concept called "Productive Use of Renewable Energy," or PURE, can help,
Nepal has seen an astounding increase in its energy access rate between 2001-2021, moving from a total electrified population of 24% in 2001 to 90% in 2021. However, there are still over 3.5 million people in remote and rural areas of the country that do not have access to electricity services in their homes, schools or healthcare facilities.
CAPE TOWN (8 November 2023) - World Resources Institute (WRI) has been selected to receive the 2023 GEO SDG Awards from the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) and the Earth Observations for Sustainable Development Goals Initiative (EO4SDG). WRI’s Energy Access Explorer (EAE) platform received the Civil Society Award, which recognizes the productivity, innovation and exemplary efforts in the use of Earth observations to support sustainable development.