The Foundation hosted an expert meeting ‘Social Protection and Low-Carbon Technology’ at the end of March 2012 at the Rockefeller Brothers Pocantico Center in New York. The meeting was attended by twenty one experts in social protection, renewable...
The Foundation hosted an expert meeting ‘Social Protection and Low-Carbon Technology’ at the end of March 2012 at the Rockefeller Brothers Pocantico Center in New York. The meeting was attended by twenty one experts in social protection, renewable energy, climate change, finance and sustainable development. They included representatives from governments, international organisations, research organisations, civil society and the private sector.
The meeting found that there are many potential linkages between social protection and access to energy and that these could and should be captured and acted on. The meeting resulted in a list of commitments by participants to influence policy, conduct research or test innovative approaches to linking the two disciplines in order to target the poorest.
The Foundation will build on the results of the expert meeting by using the outcomes of the meeting to inform international processes including the G20, Rio+20, Sustainable Energy for All (SE4A) and the UNFCCC.