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DRAFT FOR COMMENT
Using Microfinance to Ensure Sustainable Rural Livelihoods and Food
Security While Mitigating Climate Change – PART II: CLIMATE
CHANGE.
By
Alex Counts, President, Grameen Foundation
Summary/Abstract
Three interlocking and indeed...
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DRAFT FOR COMMENT
Using Microfinance to Ensure Sustainable Rural Livelihoods and Food
Security While Mitigating Climate Change – PART II: CLIMATE
CHANGE.
By
Alex Counts, President, Grameen Foundation
Summary/Abstract
Three interlocking and indeed reinforcing crises facing the world’s poor, and to some degree all
of humanity, call out for urgent action.
Specifically, this paper is going to explore the issues of
• energy poverty – the lack of access to affordable, healthful, and productive electricity and
cooking fuel among the poor,
• climate change, and
• the inability of many of today’s approaches to microfinance to (a) have a significant
positive impact on poverty and (b) sustain the high levels of support amongst the media,
policy-makers and the general public that are necessary to continue to grow and innovate.
A comprehensive response should involve wide application of a series of related solutions based
on successful pilot efforts in countries as diverse as Bangladesh, India
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