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Everyday, young girls spend hours walking to and from unsanitary water sources, carrying heavy jerrycans along the way.  By installing a clean water tap run by solar energy, these hours can be used for personal growth and education!  Learn how you can help change the world at innoafrica.org

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We’re so excited about our new film!  But, until the premiere, there are other ways to learn about our work and how you can help.  Check out innoafrica.org to learn more!

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via the installation of solar panels, we have provided health centers and clinics.  This has allowed people in the communities we serve to receive health care at all hours of the day and to receive vaccines that were otherwise unavailable.  

join us in improving health care and saving lives throughout Africa! learn more at innoafrica.org

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help us put an end to unsanitary drinking water.  with solar powered water pumps and filtration systems, everyone can have access to clean, safe water.  learn how you can help at innoafrica.org

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Op-Ed: Global Governance and African Reality (Kandeh Yumkella)

thursday, 17 may 2012

There are few hotter topics on the international agenda than sustainability. The theme has been a mainstay of international conferences, and the biggest of them all — the UN's Rio+20 conference — will begin just over a month from now. Kandeh K. Yumkella, head of UNIDO, the UN agency that promotes industrial development, explains what's at stake for Africa.

Read more on TheGlobalist.com.

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OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR

The Future We Want

By BAN KI-MOON

Published: May 23, 2012

Twenty years ago, there was the Earth Summit. Gathering in Rio de Janiero, world leaders agreed on an ambitious blueprint for a more secure future. They sought to balance the imperatives of robust economic growth and the needs of a growing population against the ecological necessity to conserve our planet’s most precious resources — land, air and water. And they agreed that the only way to do this was to break with the old economic model and invent a new one. They called it sustainable development.

Two decades later [...]

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The report, entitled “Industrial Energy Efficiency for Sustainable Wealth Creation: Capturing Environmental, Economic and Social Dividends”, is UNIDO’s contribution to the Sustainable Energy for All initiative launched by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The initiative aims to achieve by 2030 three inter linked targets: universal access to modern energy services; the doubling of energy efficiency; and the doubling of the share of renewable energy in the world’s energy supply. The Industrial Development Report argues that industrial energy efficiency is key to sustainable industrial development, especially in developing countries. It calls for investing in energy-efficient technologies in order to provide the economic, environmental and social dividends that will help achieve sustainable growth.  The report says that energy consumption could grow even faster as developing countries reduce the income gap and grapple with growing populations demanding more manufactured products. This makes it imperative to remove barriers that currently impede energy efficiency investments.