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WISE Among Top 100 Proposals for MacArthur $100M Grant
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, February 19, 2020 — The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation today unveiled WISE was one of the highest-scoring proposals, designated as the Top 100, in its 100&Change competition for a single $100 million grant to help solve one of the world's most critical social challenges.
The proposal by WISE, entitled ‘Mending Broken Lives Through Clean Energy Solutions’, seeks to end the vicious cycle of poverty fed by lack of access to energy. The ambition is to accelerate the deployment of clean distributed energy solutions, on a massive scale in order to reach more than a billion people globally, who otherwise would have no access.
The comprehensive technical plan combines reliable support of energy with community self-sufficiency and self-determination.
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Almost daily, scientists release another study documenting the growing influence of human-caused global warming. Driven by ever-increasing amounts of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, mostly from coal, oil and natural gas we burn for energy, the Earth’s average surface temperature has risen by almost 1ºC since the late 19thcentury, with much greater increases predicted ahead.
With this seemingly inexorable rise in the concentration of atmospheric…
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