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7. Affordable and clean energy

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  • KIT takes a big step towards a fossil-free future

    • News

    This week drilling has started for the construction of an underground thermal energy storage (TES) at our premises. With the help of this TES and heat pumps, KIT will be able to heat and cool both the hotel and our historic building, and thus make the largest monument in the city fossil-free!  On the photo: KIT […]

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  • Gender Integration with Climate Fund Managers

    • Institute
    • Project

    KIT Royal Tropical Institute supported Climate Fund Managers (CFM) to integrate gender into their investment process. KIT conducted desk-based gender assessments of the renewable energy sector in 14 countries across African and Asia. Guided by this assessment, KIT worked with CFM to develop a gender integration action plan for CFM’s Climate Investor One financing facility. […]

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  • Integrating a Gender Lens into OeEB’s Investment Process

    • Institute
    • Project

    Advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment is a strategic focus of the Austrian Development Bank (OeEB). As part of this effort, KIT is supporting OeEB to integrate “gender smart” decision-making into their investment processes and operations. Gender Lens Investing The project’s primary objective is to integrate gender into OeEB’s work and workplace in a way […]

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  • Energy Politics and Gender

    • Institute
    • Publication

    Policy makers and scholars often assume gender to be irrelevant in energy politics. However, an increasing body of scholarship and development policies has focused on how gender discrimination has negative effects on women’s access to energy resources and equal contributions to decision-making processes that influence energy issues. This article evaluates four overarching and salient policy […]

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  • SDG-Targeted Impact Framework for Impact Loan eXchange

    • Institute
    • Project

    KIT Royal Tropical Institute supports Loan eXchange (ILX) in developing the fund’s impact strategy.  ILX serves as an impact investment platform through which leading institutional investors – such as European pension funds – can co-invest with Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) in high SDG-targeted impact. KIT works alongside ILX in the design of their impact strategy, […]

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  • A Gender and Human Rights-Based Approach to Energy Access in Nepal

    • Institute
    • Project

    KIT Gender is working in partnership with the International Network for Gender and Sustainable Energy (ENERGIA) to support Norad in applying a gender and human rights-based approach to energy in Norwegian-supported sector programs in Nepal. Gender equality and sustainable energy for all This project supports the UN’s Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) initiative, which seeks […]

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