Financing Sustainable Energy Access: Building Resilient and Net-zero Local Economies
The Alliance for Rural Electrification (ARE), GET.invest, the Directorate-General for International Partnerships of the European Commission (DG INTPA), and EDFI ElectriFI are co-organising a COP26 session on Financing sustainable energy access: Building resilient and net-zero local economies; on 9 November 2021 at 14.00 CEST .
Access to clean and reliable electricity is imperative to advance the just transition to net-zero local economies, catalyse socio-economic development and green job creation, climate change adaptation and COVID-19 recovery. This session, which is part of the COP26 EU Side Events series, will highlight the impact of EU financial mechanisms for private companies to accelerate rural electrification efforts, with testimonials from the ground.