Shell Foundation

Amplifying impact through strategic alignments is core to #ShellFoundation’s mission. We are willing to be bold, be agile in our partnerships and innovate to move at pace and deliver solutions at scale. Since 2023, Shell Foundation has brokered $900 million of catalytic capital commitments across public and private sectors from leading international donors, development finance institutions, and impact asset managers. Our partnerships encourage the incubation of new ideas, demonstrate the viability of market-based solutions and support widespread replication and greater collective impact. Discover how we foster innovation, scale partnerships and mobilise finance: https://lnkd.in/evYse9aK #EnergyAccess #EnergyTransition #ImpactInvesting #CleanEnergy #CatalyticCapital #Finance #Innovation #Partnership #Africa #Asia

At #ShellFoundation, we are working towards supporting an energy transition that works for everyone. We support clean energy solutions that raise incomes while cutting emissions for smallholder farmers, transporters and micro-entrepreneurs in #Africa and #Asia. We de-risk new technologies and markets and drive innovation towards scale. We seek partnership with proven industry leaders to scale commercial energy solutions and co-design interventions that have gender intentionality embedded. Learn more about who we are and our work: www.shellfoundation.org #EnergyAccess #ImpactInvesting #CleanEnergy #Agriculture #EMobility #Entrepreneurs

"From a mission perspective and innovation perspective, there’s a lot of synergies between what #ShellFoundation does and what GreenPod Labs does. Shell Foundation is looking at increasing the economics of smallholder farmers and equally looking at minimising greenhouse gas emissions. That’s exactly what our technology does” said Deepak Rajmohan, Founder/CEO of GreenPod Labs. GreenPod Lab’s technology, which leverages ambient active packaging, provides the ability to activate the natural defenses of fruits and vegetables. This innovation extends shelf life at ambient temperatures, thus eliminating the need for costly cold storage and potentially revolutionising the preservation of produce in resource-limited settings. Deepak accepted the $50,000 Post-Harvest Loss Innovation Price on behalf of GreenPod Labs during an event during #ClimateWeekNYC. The Post-Harvest Loss Innovation Prize, launched by Factor[e] Ventures and supported by Shell Foundation, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, ISF Advisors , MicroSave Consulting (MSC), and AndMore Associates, LLC, aims to discover scalable and practical solutions to this critical issue. Read the full press release: https://lnkd.in/gb8pcnAA #EnergyTransition #EnergyAccess #ClimateWeek #Agriculture #Farmers #PostHarvestLoss #BioTech #SmallholderFarmers #ImpactInvesting

📢 Announcing the winner of the $50,000 Post-Harvest Loss Innovation Prize 🏆 !    At the Cultivating Innovation at the Energy and Agriculture Nexus Event during #ClimateWeekNYC, Factor[e] Ventures, in collaboration with #ShellFoundation and the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, announced that GreenPod Labs has been awarded the $50,000 Post-Harvest Loss Innovation Prize!    GreenPod Labs is a pioneering biotech firm, and the award recognises their active packaging technology designed to mitigate post-harvest losses in fruits and vegetables. This active packaging technology extends shelf life at ambient temperatures, thus eliminating the need for costly cold storage and potentially revolutionising the preservation of fresh produce in resource-limited settings. The technology adds significant value for smallholder farmers by helping them minimise post-harvest losses during storage and transport at ambient temperatures.    Globally, one-third of food is lost or wasted, causing substantial economic losses and worsening greenhouse gas emissions. This is a particular challenge for smallholder farmers in emerging markets, who bear a disproportionate share of the burden. Yet, new breakthrough technologies designed to combat post-harvest losses hold promise for both boosting these farmers’ incomes and significantly reducing global food waste.    The Post-Harvest Loss Innovation Prize, launched by Factor[e] Ventures Ventures and supported by Shell Foundation, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office through our Catalysing Agriculture by Scaling Energy Ecosystems (CASEE) partnership, ISF Advisors , MicroSave Consulting (MSC), and AndMore Associates, LLC, aims to discover scalable and practical solutions to this critical issue. Learn more about Shell Foundation's work: www.shellfoundation.org #EnergyTransition #EnergyAccess #ClimateWeek #Agriculture #Farmers #PostHarvestLoss #BioTech #SmallholderFarmers #ImpactInvesting

Shell Foundation’s Head of Financial Solutions, Nicholas Jones, joined Jonathan Cedar, CEO and Co-Founder at BioLite, James C., Director, Carbon Credits at Boomitra, Daniel Sadik, Senior Vice President at Carbon Solutions Group, Amrita Bhandari, Chief of Insights and Strategy at Acumen, and Amy Cortese, Editorial Director at ImpactAlpha for the “Credit where it is due: How carbon markets finance social impact” event during #ClimateWeekNYC.  Carbon finance applications can enhance food security, boost incomes and help adaptation to climate change as well as increasing access to clean cooking solutions or diesel-replacing solar irrigation pumps. Nick highlighted the that one of #ShellFoundation's focuses is on mobilising capital for early-stage innovations. By testing innovative financing mechanisms that have ability to help unlock carbon revenues, we can help catalyse and enhance the ability of social enterprises to increase the affordability of assets for customers we seek to serve. Learn more about our work: https://lnkd.in/ernn2t-X #ImpactInvesting #EnergyTransition #EnergyAccess #CarbonMarkets #CarbonFinance

Shell Foundation is proud to be a programme partner at SEMAFOR’s “The Next 3 Billion” Summit during #ClimateWeekNYC.     Our CEO, Jonathan Berman, will be speaking with Justin B. Smith at 10:10am ET for a Partner Session. Jonathan’s session will focus on #ShellFoundation’s mission of raising incomes while cutting emissions for the people we serve in #Africa and #Asia through #cleanenergy solutions.     Watch the livestream here: https://lnkd.in/eMqJjD7D   Visit our website to learn more about our work: www.shellfoundation.org    #ImpactInvesting #UNGA79 #UNGA #BlendedFinance #ClimateFinance #Investment #EnergyTransition #EnergyAccess

At the Mastercard MADE launch event, #ShellFoundation’s Head of Smallholder Farmers Portfolio Meera Shah joined partners from Mastercard, African Development Bank Group, Microsoft, Heifer International, U.S. International Development Finance Corporation and others discussed investing in the digital economy in #Africa with Mastercard’s EVP and Community Pass Founder Tara Nathan.   Digital inclusion is a pre-cursor to economic inclusion. In 2024 we launched the ‘Harvesting Green Energy for Smallholder Farmers’ initiative in partnership with Mastercard and the Co-operative Bank of Kenya, which introduces clean energy solutions for smallholder farmers – a critical target beneficiary group for Shell Foundation – onto Mastercard’s Farm Pass platform as well as affordable financing from the Co-Operative Bank of Kenya. Shell Foundation provided a grant subsidy to the programme to reduce interest rates for smallholder farmers, and is co-managing the piloting of six income-generating energy assets, which increase farmers’ productivity and when combined with market access enables better loan repayment. Shell Foundation’s contribution was co-funded with UK aid from the UK Government via the Catalysing Agriculture partnership between Shell Foundation and the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.    Shell Foundation is proud to become a #Kenya-focused member of the Mobilising Access to the Digital Economy (MADE) Alliance: Africa to work together to drive #digitalaccess to critical services for individuals and businesses in Africa. We look forward to partnering with you and the other MADE Alliance Members. Learn more about the MADE Alliance: https://lnkd.in/da22sA25   #ImpactInvesting #ClimateWeek #UNGA79 #BlendedFinance #EnergyTransition #EnergyAccess #ClimateFinance #Investment #Digital #DigitalInclusion #ClimateWeekNYC #Agriculture #SmallholderFarmer #Farming

The #ShellFoundation team is in New York for #ClimateWeekNYC. Throughout #ClimateWeek our team, including our Chief Executive Officer, Jonathan Berman, will be participating in events with SEMAFOR, Factor[e] Ventures, Mastercard, BlackRock and Acumen.     Our team will also be meeting with current and prospective partnerships to mobilise catalytic finance and scale #cleanenergy solutions that raise incomes of the people we serve – Smallholder Farmers, Micro-entrepreneurs and Transporters – in #Africa and #Asia while cutting emissions. Learn more about our work: www.shellfoundation.org    #ImpactInvesting #ClimateWeek #UNGA79 #BlendedFinance #EnergyTransition #EnergyAccess #ClimateFinance #Investment 

“Shell Foundation has been involved in supporting us since we started two years ago. The support has been financial but also in providing insights and practical knowledge from the experience #ShellFoundation has had on the ground. Shell Foundation provides funding that allows us to price competitively to end users.” Watch Kofa’s Founder and CEO, Erik Nygard, talk about the partnership with Shell Foundation and how Kofa’s Transporters and Micro-entrepreneurs customers in #Ghana are empowered by the swappable battery technology to raise their incomes while cutting emissions. Shell Foundation and the UK Government have co-funded Kofa since 2022 via the Transforming Energy Access platform. Read the full story: https://lnkd.in/e7ibwtNf #CleanEnergy #EnergyAccess #EnergyTransition #Africa #ImpactInvesting #EV #EMobility #BatterySwapping #Battery #Partnership #Innovation #ClimateWeekNYC #UNGA79 Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office PASH GLOBAL

Shell Foundation is proud to partner with PASH GLOBAL and Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, through the Transforming Energy Access platform to be part of the £6.15 million investment to accelerate electric vehicle adoption in Ghana led by Kofa. The investment is for the expansion of the battery swapping network in #Ghana for the target deployment of 6,000 batteries and up to 100 swap stations across the country. #ShellFoundation is providing a total commitment of £3.8 million, with co-funding by the UK Government through its Transforming Energy Access platform, to support Kofa's e-bike asset financing, research on the impact of Kofa’s multi-use battery technology, and operating expenses. Read the full story: https://lnkd.in/e7ibwtNf #CleanEnergy #EnergyAccess #EnergyTransition #Africa #ImpactInvesting #EV #EMobility #BatterySwapping #Battery #Partnership #Innovation #ClimateWeekNYC #UNGA79