GEAPP and increased funding opportunities need to be leveraged One of the headline-making announcements during the first week of COP26 was the $10 billion commitment to decentralised renewable energy by the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP), including $1.5 billion in philanthropic funds from IKEA Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation and Bezos Earth Fund. With the GEAPP announcement, the availability of grant funding for energy access will increase substantially and could prove transformative for the off-grid solar industry and to achieve universal energy access. Meetings held during the event made GOGLA cautiously optimistic about the positive impact of GEAPP for the industry. GOGLA emphasized that an approach that recognizes and leverages systems  which can deliver across all tiers of energy access will be critical towards realizing universal energy access by 2030. Advocacy and thought leadership, keys to success Although hard to navigate, COPs are becoming more relevant to GOGLA and they are a great convening platform bringing together stakeholders from all divides around climate and renewables. For the next edition, GOGLA should certainly be present again, and we are certain there will also be another SDG7 Pavilion. It’s clear that our work in advocacy and thought leadership on this theme need to go beyond COP. It’s absolutely crucial that we engage with all stakeholders: donor governments, recipient governments that will have a main role in deciding how they will distribute the funding for adaptation or loss and damage, the philanthropic community that has increasingly higher stakes in climate financing as well as climate finance intermediaries. Some of these actors will be at COP, but many will not, or they will be too busy to engage outside of the negotiation processes. However, they need to know about us, understand our work, its ties to energy access, development and climate, so advocacy should happen just as much outside of COP. Altogether, COP26 brought a clear sense of change – the climate agenda is becoming more and more relevant for the off-grid solar industry. Our presence there was only the beginning. We want to invite you to join us at the next step: our Global Off-Grid Solar Finance Summit the 8th and 9th of December. We will highlight the $20 billion investment opportunity off-grid solar represents and discuss how we can use the COP26 results to mobilize new capital, boost our industry and help achieve universal energy access.