The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP)

⁉️ Did you know more than 600 million people do not have access to electricity, with more than 80% of these people living in Africa? Unequal access to energy dims Africa’s potential. The World Bank Group in partnership with African Development Bank Group is on a mission to change that. We're also saying 🛑 stop to inequity and combing our forces to make change. We, at The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP), alongside our friends at The Rockefeller Foundation and Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) are adding our support for Mission 300. Together, we aim to provide improved electricity access to 300 million people in Africa by 2030. To see how we're #PoweringAfrica visit: https://lnkd.in/ecpNmy-C Eric Phillip Gay Ashley E. Chang Annette Mutuku Andrew Herscowitz Joseph N. Naomi Wagura Catherine Jeiza, ACEA® Wale Aboyade, PhD, Lucy Nyoike Dennis Waweru Nderitu Suman Jeganathan Muhammad Wakil, CFA Lyza Shodu O. Collen Zalengera PrEng. (MwEI) PhD MSc BSc Kenneth Kamau, CFA

New Blog! Our very own Annette Mutuku shared how when we change energy we change lives with the food systems solutions of SokoFresh™. We pulled out a few of our favorite quotes -including from the people who this is helping the most- to share insights from a recent visit and call attention to the needs we have to help drive sustainable solutions for agriculture. 🔗https://lnkd.in/eyi8MZWH #LetsChangeEnergy together Woochong Um

Are you a climate communicator? Work with us. 😍 We're actively recruiting for TWO roles to help grow our advocacy and communication platforms at The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP). If you're based in Kenya or the US and you want to help cut through the buzz to talk about what matters most - changing lives - we want you. 💚 For the full job descriptions, take a look here: https://lnkd.in/dvm_E5vK #LetsChangeEnergy with you #ClimateCommunicators #Greenjobs #RenewableEnergy

🌍⚡️ The World Bank Group and the African Development Bank Group are committed to changing energy in Africa by expanding electricity access to 300 million by 2030. Achieving this ambitious goal hinges on robust partnerships with government, the private sector and organizations like us, The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP), alongisde our friends at The Rockefeller Foundation and Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL). We’re proud to be a part of it. 💚 At the World Bank Group Annual Meetings, this week - and today especially, we are helping power change in Africa. Together, we can drive meaningful change and create a more sustainable future for all. 🔗 Discover more about Mission 300: http://wrld.bg/6mrH50TMgkx #LetsChangeEnergy together #WBGMeetings #Mission300 #PoweringAfrica

🇮🇳 We’re changing energy in India, but we need you! Right now, we’re working together with the Government of Uttar Pradesh (UPEIDA). The latest project? Installing solar power along the nearly 300 kilometers of Bundelkhand Expressway to generate 450 MW of clean energy! ☀ Not only is this a great idea, but we see potential in it as a solution that can scale. 🛣 We’re searching for ways that this could be applied to four other expressways in the region. 🔗 For more information, check out the RFPs: here: https://lnkd.in/d-ejSgec #LetsChangeEnergy together Vaishali Mishra Saurabh Kumar Nand Gopal Gupta "Nandi" Uttar Pradesh Government

⚡️We are nothing without our Alliance. It's why it's important for us to come together -staff and partners- in one Alliance to share how we can work together to accelerate clean energy transitions further and faster. 💪 Our alliance helps ensure that we are delivering impact, but also that we are supporting just energy transitions. We were extremely inspired by the ways staff and partners have been alliancing that we just wanted to share a little more about why we think its pretty important and why our radical collaboration is so important. Take a look at the video below to better understand 💫 Alliancing 💫 and stay tuned for examples of Alliancing in Action. #LetsChangeEnergy by Alliancing Sundaa Bridgett-Jones Felicity Tan Nessa Santos Vaishali Mishra Avi Kestenbaum Enas Abdella Abdulmalik Lubna Bhayani Lucy Nyoike

🚨Are you hearing about APRA Investment Forum right now? We're here to break down what it is and why we're excited about it. APRA stands for Accelerated Partnership for Renewables in Africa, which is an African country-led alliance. That's three things we love: 1. An Alliance 2. Accelerating partnerships 3. Renewable energy solutions in Africa But it doesn't stop there. This week it's the first ever APRA Investment Forum, which is a critical time to bring together these stakeholders and unlock solutions for climate finance and funding for renewable energy solutions. It's a pretty big deal -- and we're lucky that the Government of Kenya and the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) are hosting it, showing the international support for this. But secretly, we're most excited about how the APRA Investment Forum can help ensure financing for Mission 300, an ambitious new initiative, led by The World Bank Group and African Development Bank Group, which aims to electrify 300 million in Africa by 2030. It's a project we're also helping support (alongside our Alliance partners at The Rockefeller Foundation and Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL)). We're in Nairobi 🇰🇪 for it, so stop by and say hi 👋 if you're here too! #LetsChangeEnergy together

🚩 Only half of Haiti’s 🇭🇹 population has access to electricity. In rural areas, that figure drops to just 15%. Without power, economic development stalls. The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP), Okra Solar and Alina Eneji are working to connect the hardest to reach with game changing mesh grid technology. Because when we change energy, we create economic opportunity, we change lives. ☀ #LetsChangeEnergy Eric Phillip Gay Nadia Todres Isabel Beltrán Vince Theo Driko Ducasse Indranil Roy

😍 Did you miss us? We were quiet last week after a busy UNGA week, or should we say GEAPP week. We wanted to come back with even more messages about the great work we're doing alongside our alliance around the globe. So here's a quick world tour: In Latin America and the Caribbean, we're spending some time in Brazil 🇧🇷 as part of the Clean Energy Ministerial. One of our highlights? Seeing the potential for Productive Use of Energy (PUE) in the Amazon and being able to exchange with other top experts. In Kenya 🇰🇪 this week, we're at GOGLA's Off Grid Solar Forum and Expo where we're sharing our distributed renewable energy (#DRE) solutions in Haiti 🇭🇹 , with the work of our friends at Okra Solar as well as continuing to share our support for the The World Bank Group and African Development Bank Group initiative, Mission 300, which is #PoweringAfrica. While in Asia, we were busy with the The Rockefeller Foundation's Asia Xhange in Thailand 🇹🇭 while also making time to continue to explore the potential of clean energy transitions in Indonesia 🇮🇩, Vietnam 🇻🇳 and more. And this is just a sample of our work...as our new CEO Woochong Um puts it, "time zones don't matter in the work that we do. We are working together across the globe." 🙌 #LetsChangeEnergy together Ravi Venkatesan Andrew Herscowitz Kitty Bu Sunita Dubey Minh Nguyen Gabriela Gutiérrez Morales Hali McKinley Lester Makena Ireri Lucky Nurrahmat Suka Pradita Annette Mutuku Vaishali Mishra Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) PT Surya Utama Putra

This week at #UNGA79 and New York Climate Week, we've been energized by our Alliance partners spotlighting proven solutions for accelerating a clean energy transition. Need inspiration? Check out Bezos Earth Fund's inaugural edition of Earth's Energy Future 👇