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Financially sustainable energy access in Kenya

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Presented at the African Development Bank’s fifth annual Africa Energy Market Place conference, 27 Oct 2021 Hello everybody, we at TBI engaged with government and non-government stakeholders on identifying priorities for Kenya’s energy sector which have gone into our Country Priority Plan, which I will outline now for sustainable energy access. To better situate us, it’s worth first having a look at the relevant actors in Kenya’s system of electricity provision. Kenya’s Ministry of Energy is the overarching government body responsible for the energy sector. The Ministry is responsible for developing and implementing policies that create an enabling environment for … Continue reading Financially sustainable energy access in Kenya

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Full Implementation of Sector Reforms in Kenyan Transmission

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Presented at the African Development Bank’s fifth annual Africa Energy Market Place conference, 28 Oct 2021 Hello, everybody, we at TBI engaged with government and non-government stakeholders on identifying priorities and opportunities for implementation of sector reforms for transmission and … Continue reading Full Implementation of Sector Reforms in Kenyan Transmission

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Sustainable finance for sustainable power generation in Kenya

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Presented at the African Development Bank’s fifth annual Africa Energy Market Place conference, 27 Oct 2021 Hello everybody, we at TBI engaged with government and non-government stakeholders on identifying priorities for Kenya’s energy sector which have gone into our Country … Continue reading Sustainable finance for sustainable power generation in Kenya

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Climate Displacement policy paper

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A paper I worked on with the Liberal International Climate Justice Committee constituting of liberal politicians from around the world Christian Ottosson (Sweden), Susanna Rivero Baughman (Spain), Imad Ahmed (UK), David Zimmer (Canada), Imran Khan (Bangladesh), Daniela Morales (Belgium). September 2021 | Download the PDF Executive summary Millions of people already … Continue reading Climate Displacement policy paper

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International Climate Finance and support to national climate policy processes in emerging markets – literature review

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The German Institute for Economic Research – DIW Berlin | July 2021 Programme: Strengthen National Climate Policy Implementation: Comparative Empirical Learning & Creating Linkage to Climate Finance – SNAPFI Financial support:The International Climate Initiative (IKI), Federal Ministry for the Environment, … Continue reading International Climate Finance and support to national climate policy processes in emerging markets – literature review

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A Just Transition for Africa: Championing a Fair and Prosperous Pathway to Net Zero

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Published by the Institute for Global Change 14 October 2021 By Gareth Walsh, Imad Ahmed, Jonathan Said, Martim Faria e Maya with a foreword by Tony Blair Our Time to Zero In series makes the case for an inclusive transition to net zero that focuses on people, fairness, technology, markets and communities. This paper seeks to share insights and recommendations with policymakers in high-income countries on how they can better partner with their counterparts in Africa, to deliver on development for the continent while mitigating climate change and its worst impacts. It draws on the experience of the Tony Blair Institute in … Continue reading A Just Transition for Africa: Championing a Fair and Prosperous Pathway to Net Zero

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Presenting on & moderating a panel on hydropower

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Not only are there emissions associated with the construction and decommissioning of hydropower plants and the destruction of carbon sinks, not only are there emissions associated with the methane released from hydrodam reservoirs, but there’s now also backup diesel generation that we need to take into account when hydropower from reservoir lakes fails as a baseload source of energy. Continue reading Presenting on & moderating a panel on hydropower

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Climate justice and remembering Paddy Ashdown on his 80th birthday

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Ever the military mind, Paddy Ashdown saw climate change playing a hand in resource wars, and saw the Syrian refugee crisis, caused by climate change and lack of water, as the beginning of a worrying trend.

He wanted to see us in less climate-affected nations to accept more climate-displaced people in line with standards of humanity and decency. Continue reading Climate justice and remembering Paddy Ashdown on his 80th birthday

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The impact decades-long dependence on hydropower in El Nino prone Zambia is having on carbon emissions through diesel backup generation

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D’Maris Coffman, Graham Sianjase, Priti Parikh and I have published a journal paper in Environmental Research Letters under the title above. For this article, we make available the primary data our team of enumerators (Johanna Mwila, Beauty Nkosha, Tapiwa Janda, Nandi Ngwenye and Mundia Kayamba) helped us collect in the above Excel file. We do this to allow for scrutiny of our findings. We will disclose more data collected and analysis once we have published our findings pertaining to the additional data. The data available is GDPR compliant. The pdf of the article can be accessed here. Abstract Emissions associated … Continue reading The impact decades-long dependence on hydropower in El Nino prone Zambia is having on carbon emissions through diesel backup generation