Rushaiya Ibrahim-Tanko

Task Force 4: Refuelling Growth: Clean Energy and Green Transitions 1. The Challenge Energy infrastructure is an essential and costly prerequisite to development.[1] Most mature energy markets make a wealth of data about electricity contracts and pricing publicly available, which helps drive down prices, speed up procurement, and improve service quality. Yet, the status quo across many emerging markets is the opposite.

By Rushaiya Ibrahim-Tanko and Todd Moss The world must solve two global crises – energy poverty and climate change – at the same time. Energy poverty impacts 3 billion people worldwide, which hurts living standards and livelihoods. And to meet global climate goals, the International Energy Agency estimates that the world needs to build more than 1,000 GW of new clean power every year through 2050. Solving both of these crises depends on massively accelerating clean energy investment.