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📅 Save the date: Creating and measuring jobs in the green economy - best practice deep dive 📈   🌍🌱 Green job creation is prioritised by many emerging economies, boosting energy transition, climate action, and growth. But how can we maximise local benefits while avoiding costly trade barriers? How can we accurately measure the green job impact of programmes and businesses? Join Ayrton Fund on 17 September (14:00-15:00 GMT+1), to hear learnings and approaches from the Ayrton Fund research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) programmes - exploring methods for measuring green job creation and its impacts across interventions and innovations for energy access and the just, clean energy transition.   The event will feature expert speakers from Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, The Carbon Trust, POWER 4 ALL, Shortlist Professionals, BURN manufacturing, sharing insights and discussing pressing topics including -    ▪ Ensuring and maximising green job opportunities in emerging economies ▪ Addressing challenges in the clean energy employment landscape in emerging economies ▪ The importance of measuring impact: Opportunities and challenges ▪ Defining a green job     📅 Date: Tuesday 17 September 🕒 Time: 14:00-15:00 GMT+1 📍 Location: Online   Register here👇 https://lnkd.in/ej-bgfkF Transforming Energy Access

⏰ Tomorrow is the final deadline to apply for the Post Harvest Loss Innovation Prize - seeking groundbreaking solutions that empower smallholder farmers in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa to reduce post-harvest loss. Find our more and apply below 👇

📣 The first global funding call for project proposals from the Accelerate-to-Demonstrate (A2D) Facility has been published by UNIDO on its Procurement Portal 🌎 The programme is part of the Ayrton Fund commitment to support clean energy Research, Development and Demonstration (RD&D) in ODA-eligible countries and is funded with an initial £65 million from Department for Energy Security and Net Zero   Proposals must support the implementation of catalytic and scalable pilot demonstration projects of innovative clean energy solutions in four thematic areas: ⛏ critical minerals 🔋 clean hydrogen 💡 smart energy 🏭 industrial decarbonization ⏰ The deadline for proposals is 19 August 2024 16:00 Vienna CET. Visit the UNIDO Procurement webpage to find out more: https://lnkd.in/gAG26BKm British Embassy Vienna Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Congratulations and welcome to the 13 Battery Ambassadors selected by The Faraday Institution as part of the Ayrton Challenge on Energy Storage 🤝🔋 Find our more about the cohort and opportunities to connect ⤵️ The Faraday Institution Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office