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GadgetroniX installed a high-capacity, off-grid solar energy system at Nduta Main Hospital in Tanzania to ensure continuous power for critical medical services, including diagnostics and emergency care, reducing reliance on the national grid and diesel.

The Indonesia Cooking Diaries Study evaluates the feasibility of transitioning urban Indonesian households from liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) stoves to induction stoves, focusing on energy demand, cost, and user behavior in South Jakarta.

The 'Careers in Sustainable Energy: International Development' handbook is a guide produced by Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) to help young people and professionals identify career roles and educational requirements within the sustainable energy and international development sectors.

This report by the South African Institute of International Affairs provides a framework for South Africa's energy transition by 2050, advocating for a shift from growth-centric economic models toward 'Regenerative Prosperity' and sustainable resource management.

This notification from the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) announces the election results for the Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) and the Science and Policy Advisory Committee (SPAC) following the 30th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (CoP-30) held on June 14-15, 2022.

The People-Centered Accelerator (PCA), a partnership of over 45 organizations, issued a statement prior to the UN High-level Dialogue on Energy calling for a just energy transition centered on gender equality, social inclusion, and women's empowerment to achieve universal sustainable energy access by 2030.

This report analyzes global access to cooling in 2021, focusing on 54 high-impact countries. It details how the combined effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and rising global temperatures have increased the number of people at risk due to a lack of sustainable cooling, particularly among the rural and urban poor.

The report details the proceedings and decisions of the 28th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (CoP-28) to the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI), held via videoconference on 19 August 2020. The meeting focused on budgetary approvals, governance updates, and the expansion of the Institute's associates.

The report 'Energizing Finance: Understanding the Landscape 2019', produced by Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) and Climate Policy Initiative, analyzes public and private finance commitments for electricity and clean cooking in 20 high-impact countries (HICs) from 2013 to 2017. It finds that while electricity finance reached a record high in 2017, it remains far below the levels required to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7) by 2030, particularly for residential users and in Sub-Saharan Africa. Clean cooking finance saw a severe decline in 2017, further widening the investment gap.

This guide, produced by the Stockholm Environment Institute as part of the ENLARGE project, uses a 'Choose Your Own Adventure' (CYOA) format to educate policymakers and stakeholders on participatory democracy in the sustainable energy sector. It presents realistic, though fictional, scenarios involving a local government's attempt to implement an energy efficiency plan, including the construction of a wind farm and building renovations. The document explores the tensions between technical requirements, political consensus, and citizen engagement, providing strategies to improve social legitimacy, institutional sustainability, and political effectiveness.

This scoping report examines how global trends—including energy decentralization, affordability, mobile payments, women's entrepreneurship, urbanization, and humanitarian settings—affect gender equality and social inclusion in sustainable energy access, with specific analysis of five countries.

This fact sheet compares the Regulatory Indicators for Sustainable Energy (RISE) Energy Efficiency scores with the World Bank's Doing Business rankings across various countries, highlighting the relationship between energy efficiency policy and the general business environment.

This document is an audit report conducted by KPMG Austria GmbH on the financial statements of Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) Verein für nachhaltige Energie for the shortened financial year ending 31 December 2016. The audit confirms that the financial statements present fairly the organization's financial position and performance in accordance with voluntarily applied Austrian Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.

A statement by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon delivered at Climate Action 2016 in Washington D.C., emphasizing the transition from the Paris Agreement's promises to implementation and the need for a radical transformation to a zero-carbon global economy.

Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park delivered remarks at a United Nations session on Sustainable Energy for All, detailing the efforts of Music for Relief and the 'Power The World' initiative to combat energy poverty and climate change.

This paper examines the relationship between fossil-fuel subsidies and gender in India, specifically analyzing the impacts of subsidy reform on cooking, lighting, pumping, and transport fuels.

This report by Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) argues that rural poverty is inextricably linked to environmental degradation and the imposition of neoliberal economic models. It contends that the exploitation of natural resources by transnational corporations and the policies of international financial institutions (IFIs) exacerbate poverty, while community-led management of natural resources offers a sustainable path toward poverty eradication.

This Letter of Intent outlines the formation of a consortium between the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI), the International Council for Science (ICSU-ROLAC), and the UNESCO regional office to support Future Earth activities in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).

This statement outlines the intention to form a consortium between the International Council for Science's regional office for Latin America and the Caribbean (ICSU-ROLAC), the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI), and the regional office of UNESCO to support the Future Earth (FE) initiative in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region.

The Gender and Energy Compact is a coalition formed by UNIDO, ENERGIA, and GWNET, with support from several governments, to promote a gender-responsive energy transition. The initiative focuses on ensuring women have equal opportunities to lead and benefit from the transition, as well as equal access to sustainable energy services, aiming for specific outcomes by 2030 to support SDG7 and SDG5.