Final Day – Wrapping Up Financing the Future Summit As the Financing the Future Summit wrapped up, participants offered a range of powerful commitments that will advance Shine’s mission and vision. Religious leaders committed to advocating within their own structures for increased funding and investing in energy access. African foundations committed to a convening of…
The Shine team at the Financing the Future Summit (L-R: Mark Correnti, Dwayne Linville, Emira Woods, and Rev. Fletcher Harper) Day 2 – Cape Town, South Africa The Financing The Future Global Climate Divest-Invest Summit came to a close today. Leaders from faith-based institutions, governments, NGOs, foundations, academia, environmental, social impact investing, healthcare, social enterprise…
Following the announcement of $11T divestment from fossil fuels industry milestone yesterday, day one of Financing The Future Global Climate Divest-Invest Summit kicked off today. The rooms were filled with over 300 delegates from over 44 countries. Below is a brief update of the topics discussed at today’s conference. Remember that you can follow along on…
Today at the Financing the Future Summit, the message could not have been clearer or more consistent with the mission of the Shine campaign: the time has come to end energy poverty with distributed, renewable, community-based, community-owned energy systems. And – mission-driven investors need to step forward and meet this challenge. We can do this. …
The world urgently needs a rapid transition to a renewable energy economy to protect the well-being of all people and our planet. Access to clean, reliable and affordable energy has the power to fuel economic transformation and change lives, especially for women and young people. To highlight the leadership role that values-driven institutions play in…