Rockefeller Foundation: We will lift 1 billion people out of poverty over a decade

"The Rockefeller Foundation and the IKEA Foundation join
forces to set up a historic $1 billion global platform to
fight climate change and energy poverty", says Dr. Rajiv
Shah, President of the Rockefeller Foundation. "The
platform aims to reduce 1 billion tons of greenhouse gas
emissions and to empower 1 billion people with distributed
renewable energy."




In a special English edition of "Der Große Neustart" - the
German podcast series by Sibylle Barden, Dr. Shah talks
about the urgent need to deliver clean and reliable power
to the 800 million people worldwide who lack electricity.
"We need a new Covid Charter", he says and is ready to
re-imagine the Bretton Woods institutions: "Multilateral
development banks can lend far more if allowed. They could
unlock up to a trillion dollars in new lending while still
maintaining their AAA ratings." He also talks about the
difficult transformation of his organisation to become
"part of the solution to solve the climate change issues of
our time."




For more information on the $1 billion platform:
https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org,
http://ikeafoundation.org




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