The World Future Council (WFC) and the Alliance for Rural Electrification (ARE) have signed a MoU to bring sustainability in developing countries via renewable energy – particularly African nations where more than 74% of the population lacks access to electricity. The coalition believes that the deployment of renewable energies requires sound, stable, and long term policies which spur private investment.
The MoU includes the project “Renewable Energy for Sustainable Development in Africa” which will focus on strategy workshops, information packages, and national renewable energy roundtables. ARE and WFC share the objective of creating dynamic markets for renewable energy technologies in developing countries.
ARE has a wide array of experience in technological and financial solutions for sustainable electrification in developing countries while the WFC provides a worldwide network of influential and well connected decision makers from different thematic backgrounds ranging from governments, parliaments, civil society to business and science.
WFC campaign manager of renewable energy in Africa Ansgar Kiene told Alternative Energy Africa: “Facing the challenges the world and especially the African continent is facing today and in the coming decades, it’s even more important to bundle positive forces between civil society organizations, the economy and politics. ‘Better policies for a better world’ is what the people and the planet need.”