More clean energy funds needed for systems that channel power to world's poorest
Barcelona
ONLY a tiny fraction of climate change funding is going into small-scale solar, biogas and other off-grid systems that may be the best way to get power to the world's poorest, researchers say.
That problem, evident in new figures from the London-based International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), points to a challenge for the main international organisation promoting access to clean energy for everyone on the planet, which last week adopted a strategy to achieve that goal earlier than a 2030 deadline.
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