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Prosus and South Pole sign deal on innovative new climate finance instruments with high social impact
9 November 2022
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has established a partnership with South Pole to operationalize the D-REC concept, a new financial instrument to aggregate investments in Distributed Renewable Energy (DRE) projects in developing countries.
UNDP Partners with D-REC Initiative to Scale Up Energy Access Through Innovative Investment Models
3 August 2021
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has established a partnership with South Pole to operationalize the D-REC concept, a new financial instrument to aggregate investments in Distributed Renewable Energy (DRE) projects in developing countries.
D-REC Initiative featured in two panels at UN High Level Dialogue
21 June 2021
The D-REC Initiative was presented at two side events as part of the ministerial-level UN High Level Dialogue on Energy Thematic Forums, which bring together key stakeholders to mobilize actions as major milestones on the road to the High-level Dialogue on Energy in September 2021.
D-REC Initiative presented at the 6th ARE Energy Access Investment Forum
18 March 2021
South Pole’s Gian Autenrieth discussed the D-REC Initiative on 18 March 2021 on a panel entitled ‘Innovative technologies to scale finance for DRE projects.’
Webinar: D-REC: Financing Climate Action through Distributed Renewables
11 March 2021
Access to sustainable, reliable energy enables multiple wide-ranging benefits from better education and employment to health care and healthier ecosystems. But finance continues to be significantly off-track to achieve SDG7 and bring clean energy access to the 840+ million people who still lack it.
Innovative platform creates a global market for distributed renewable energy
26 January 2021
South Pole, Positive.Capital Partners, Shell Foundation, the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), Good Energies Foundation, Signify Foundation, and EnAccess Foundation join forces to increase investment in distributed renewable energy projects.