How can subsidies accelerate universal energy access?
Channel: IIED
Date: 2020-10-24

Access to affordable, reliable and clean energy remains one of the greatest development challenges. This is a recording of a webinar on Thursday, 22 October 2020 that explored the role that subsidies as a form of public finance can play in achieving universal access to energy.

It was hosted by by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)  in partnership with Hivos and Tearfund, and discussed: 

* What are the opportunities and challenges for policymakers, the private sector and civil society? 
* What can we learn from current and past subsidy schemes? 
* And how can subsidies play a vital part of the COVID-19 response and recovery?

Featured speakers were: Stephen Nash, founder of Kuungana Advisory; Daniel Kitwa, finance lead at Africa Mini-grid Developers Association; IIED researcher Nipunika Perera; Linda Wamune, founder and managing director of Econome; and Satish Gautam, national programme manager of the Renewable Energy for Rural Livelihood, a joint project of government of Nepal, Asian Development and United Nations Development Programme. 

The event, part of the IIED Debates series, was moderated by Rita Poppe, global advocacy officer, green & inclusive energy at Hivos.

More details: https://www.iied.org/how-can-subsidies-accelerate-universal-energy-access