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This brief explores the development and climate benefits of OGS; the opportunities it represents for climate finance institutions, including multilateral climate finance mechanisms; and the potential impact of new funding sources such as blended finance, carbon markets, and the labelled bond market.
The analysis focuses on stand-alone off-grid solar technologies such as solar lanterns, multi-light systems and solar home systems, which together account for about 85% of the global off-grid electricity market. It is based on a comprehensive literature review and interviews with experts.
The authors discuss the development benefits of off-grid solar, the climate mitigation benefits, the benefits for adaptation and resilience, investment needs and challenges, and multilateral climate finance, and finally lended finance, carbon markets and bonds.
The brief sets out key strategies for climate finance to scale up investments in off-grid solar, as follows.
Initiative / This initiative looks at dimensions for the deployment of gridless technologies to accelerate progress towards climate and the SDGs.
Project / This project upscaled off-grid WASH innovations to enable sustainable and circular innovations to reach vulnerable populations in humanitarian crises.
Feature / As we prepare to launch Currents 2024 on 17 January, it is time to take stock. Did we detect the way the winds were blowing when we looked ahead to 2023?
Feature / SEI Scientist and Zoha Shawoo puts the COP28 loss and damage decision into perspective, saying it is both significant and inadequate for the scale of need.
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