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Tales from two cities

Posted by: Shantanu Mitra, Posted on: 29 September 2010 - Categories: Climate Change

Two events in the last few weeks have focused my attention on the challenges that climate change poses in urban areas, and how DFID can contribute to finding solutions. First I paid a visit to Beddington Zero (fossil) Energy Development, …

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A solution to Mozambique's funding gap?

Posted by: Neil Squires, Posted on: 27 May 2009 - Categories: Africa, Health

I came across a very interesting article titled UN to bridge funding gap on health in the Financial Times last week (free registration required), which discusses a UN plan to launch a new initiative to raise billions of dollars in addition …

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Wouldn't you want to mill your own flour?

Posted by: Vicky Seymour, Posted on: 15 May 2009 - Categories: Climate Change

So today it was my turn in the climate change hot seat here at the World Bank in Washington. The highlight of my day was being able to approve an exciting new programme called Scaling-up Renewable Energy (SREP). SREP will focus on …

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