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Rockefeller’s next revolution: Extending clean energy to 1 billion people in Third World countries
- September 1, 2022: Vol. 15, Number 8

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Rockefeller’s next revolution: Extending clean energy to 1 billion people in Third World countries

by Mike Consol

There are nearly 3 billion people on the planet who consume less than 1,000 kilowatt hours per year of energy and electricity — one-twelfth of what the average U.S. citizen consumes. But those energy misers are going to consume increasing amounts of energy over time, which naturally leads to this question: Is that energy going to be generated by more coal, or will renewable electrification and new energy technologies be able to reduce air pollution and mitigate climate change?

“We’re advocating for the latter,” said Raj Shah president of The Rockefeller Foundation and former head of the U.S. Agency for International Development, during a recent appearance on The Global Public Square with Fareed Zakaria.

The Rockefeller Foundation leads a group of organizations that have a big idea on this front. They aim to raise $100 billion in public and private funds to both bring renewable power to 1 billion people and avoid sending 4 billion tons of greenhouse-gas emission

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