685 million people still lack access to electricity, with most living in regions highly vulnerable to climate hazards. For many, off-grid solar offers the fastest route to power—supporting critical infrastructure and services, enabling climate-resilient livelihoods, providing access to climate information and early warning systems, and strengthening post-disaster response and recovery.
To demonstrate the potential of off-grid solar solutions to enhance climate resilience, GOGLA, Practical Action, IKEA Foundation and Efficiency for Access have developed a 3-part series of resources. These resources can be used by off-grid companies, climate funds, governments and development organisations to better understand, evaluate and enhance the contribution of off-grid solar to climate resilience and adaptation.
Our goal is to drive the finance, partnerships and best practice that can unlock the full potential of off-grid solutions to rapidly enhance climate resilience and adaptation.
Powering Climate Resilience: The Role of Off-Grid Solar
This report provides case studies and data to highlight the ways that off-grid solar solutions are already contributing to resilience and adaptation across the four impact areas: supporting critical infrastructure and services, enabling climate-resilient livelihoods, providing access to climate information and early warning systems, and strengthening post-disaster response and recovery.
This work supports the industry-wide campaign: Solar4Adaptation. Special thanks to our partners Practical Action, IKEA Foundation and Efficiency for Access.
This work above builds on the foundations developed in this 2023 report.
Written with the support of the IKEA Foundation in partnership with Efficiency for Access, Acumen, Ashden and the World Wildlife Fund, the Powering Climate Adaptation and Justice paper offers insight into the transformative potential of off-grid solar solutions to enable a wide range of positive climate adaptation impacts, from powering green growth and opportunity to combatting the impacts of droughts, floods and storms.
Photography by Jeffrey Michael Walcott, Julia Gunther, current and previous GOGLA members
Photography by Jeffrey Michael Walcott, Julia Gunther, current and previous GOGLA members
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