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 Der Große Neustart -
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