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By Making It on 13 February, 2012

Solar visionary Jigar Shah sees small solutions to big problems for accessing energy and expanding mobile communications in developing countries

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged access to energy, Barclays Bank, Beltsville, business solution, Carbon War Room, climate change, destruction, earth, electricity, energy efficiency, entrepreneurship, explosive growth trajectory of mobile communications, financial returns, global crisis, global warming, Green Power for Mobile: Charging Choices, GSMA Development Fund, Industrial Development Organization, Industry for development, issue 9, Jigar Shah, Lockheed Martin, Making It magazine, Maryland, mobile phone industry, multi-billion dollar opportunity, our low-carbon future, poverty reduction, power, Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE), renewable energy improvements, small solutions to big problems, statistics, SunEdison, sustainable economic growth, third industrial revolution, UNIDO, United Nations, USA, wealth creation, world

The converging world

By Making It on 31 January, 2011

How investments can be designed to generate a positive environmental impact, in addition to providing a financial return to support sustainable development work

Posted in All Posts, Policy Brief | Tagged access to energy, business, carbon credits, carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, challenges, clean development mechanism, co2, community, David Cameron, design, energy gap, environment, financial return, incentives, India, Industrial Development Organization, industrial policy, investment, investor, issue 4, Making It magazine, NGO, peace, peak coal, policy, positive impact, pv, renewable energy, Sir Nicholas Stern, social unrest, solar, solution, stability, success, sustainability, tariff, trade barriers, UNIDO, United Nations, wind power

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