This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The World Bank will no longer finance upstream oil and gas after 2019, it announced recently, winning praise from civil society for its “true climate leadership.” The announcement was met with whoops and sustained…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The future of carbon capture and storage in the U.S. – as well as the fate of the U.S. coal industry – may be a bleak one, due to the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Renewable energy isn’t the future — it’s right now. Every day, people around the world are making a sincere effort to reduce their dependency on energy sources that are harming…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Even many Jersey voters might not know that Governor-elect Phil Murphy’s clean-energy platform aims to put the Garden State on a path to 100% clean energy by 2050. New Jersey has the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When President Trump promised to bring coal jobs back, he may have hedged a bit. Jobs in coal production have ticked up temporarily, but jobs in the renewable energy sector…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A distribution solution for energy products in rural India claimed the spotlight at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit on Thursday night, when founder Ajaita Shah won the event’s pitch competition. Emerging…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The World Bank now has three benchmarks for measuring poverty. The “headline” extreme poverty threshold of $1.90/day will stay, but two new international poverty lines were added for lower middle-income ($3.20/day)…
No sooner had we recorded the latest episode of ImpactAlpha’s Returns on Investment podcast than Norway’s trillion-dollar sovereign wealth fund proposed dropping oil and gas companies from its index and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Texas has a surprising clean-energy policy story to tell, one based on market initiatives and deregulation rather than a government-driven approach, said Marilu Hastings, vice president of sustainability programs at the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Envision Solar has secured $4.5 million for solar electric-car charging. The San Diego-based company has developed a solar charging station for electric vehicles that can fit within a standard parking…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. More than 150 million people live off-grid in Southeast Asia and spend $3 billion each year on lighting and heating substitutes, like kerosene. SolarHome sells pay-as-you-go home solar products to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation is funding an innovative solar energy program at Girls Inc. of Sarasota County that it hopes will become a money-saving, green-energy model for other youth-serving organizations in…