{"id":80498,"date":"2016-10-20T02:23:06","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T00:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/the-africa-renewable-energy-forum-2-4-november-2016-at-the-four-seasons-hotel-marrakesh\/"},"modified":"2016-10-20T02:23:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T00:23:06","slug":"the-africa-renewable-energy-forum-2-4-november-2016-at-the-four-seasons-hotel-marrakesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/the-africa-renewable-energy-forum-2-4-november-2016-at-the-four-seasons-hotel-marrakesh\/","title":{"rendered":"The Africa Renewable Energy Forum, 2-4 November 2016 at The Four Seasons Hotel, Marrakesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.energynet.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/the-africa-renewable-energy-forum-24-november-2016-at-the-four-seasons-hotel-marrakesh?lang=en\">The Africa Renewable Energy Forum, 2-4 November 2016 at The Four Seasons Hotel, Marrakesh<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p>At COP 21 it was determined that approximately $  19 billion of finance will be provided annually by developed countries for Africa&rsquo;s renewable programme by 2020. In addition, Japan announced $  10bn per year in public and private finance also to reach Africa by 2020.&nbsp; New pledges to climate funds, including the Adaptation Fund, Least Developed Countries Fund, and the Green Climate Fund (GCF), added up to more than $  1.5bn. In addition, all multilateral development banks&nbsp;have pledged to scale up climate finance in developing countries by 2020, to more than $  30 billion per year.<\/p>\n<p> The availability of these funds will significantly hasten the pace of decisions being made by energy ministers and governments attending the Africa Renewable Energy Forum (http:\/\/APO.af\/jFQYhB) to implement renewable projects, IPP Programmes and diversify their energy mix to attract as much capital as possible &nbsp;into their banking and clean energy sector.<\/p>\n<p> The protagonists of these policies and the alchemist&rsquo;s of such funding including; JBIC, AFD, Renewable Energy Initiative, Africa50, AfDB, DBSA, World Bank, IFC and the governments of South Africa, Egypt, Morocco, as well as ECOWAS Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECREEE)&nbsp;and more will gather to promote new projects and share success stories from across the continent in a collaborative format that will showcase only the most relevant and proactive partners.<\/p>\n<p> <u>Some of the developers contributing:<\/u><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mustapha Bakkoury, Chief Executive Officer,&nbsp;<strong>Masen<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Badis Derradji, Regional Managing Director,&nbsp;<strong>ACWA Power<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Amine Homman Ludiye, Regional Manager, Northern Africa,<strong>&nbsp;ENGIE<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Linda Thompson, Head of development, Africa,&nbsp;<strong>Mainstream<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Christopher Hornor, President and Chief Executive Officer,&nbsp;<strong>Powerhive<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Richard Avery, Regional Manager, West Africa,&nbsp;<strong>eleQtra<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Michele Porri, Head of Business Development,&nbsp;<strong>ENEL Green Power<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Nabil Saimi, Deputy Chief Executive Officer,&nbsp;<strong>Platinum Power<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>Some of the investors contributing:<\/u><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jiwoo Choi, Head (Acting) ,&nbsp;<strong>Green Climate Fund<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Kohei Toyoda, Director of IPP\/IWPPs EMEA<strong>, Japan Bank for International Cooperation<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Alain Ebobiss&eacute;, Chief Executive Officer,&nbsp;<strong>Africa50<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Fabrice Juquois, Head of Energy Projects, TED Division, Department of Sustainable Development<strong>, French Development Agency <\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Lucy Chege, General Manager, Energy Unit,&nbsp;<strong>Development Bank of Southern Africa<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Yasser Charafi, Principal Investment Officer,&nbsp;<strong>International Finance Corporation<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Haje Schutte, Head of Division, Development Co-operation Directorate,&nbsp;<strong>Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development <\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Ahmed Baroudi, Director General, So<strong>ci&eacute;t&eacute; d&#39;Investissements Energetiques<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>View the full agenda here<\/strong>&nbsp;(http:\/\/APO.af\/BUF45q) <strong>and confirm your registration<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/strong>(http:\/\/APO.af\/nuobmH) <strong>online immediately or contact <\/strong><strong>arf@EnergyNet.co.uk<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;quoting the code&nbsp;ARF_PR2.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <i>Distributed by APO on behalf of EnergyNet Ltd..<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"well well-sm\"><b>Media files<\/b><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/thumb\/97781b50e90b090\/200\/70\" alt=\"EnergyNet Ltd.\"\/><br \/>Download logo<\/div>\n<p><small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.energynet.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/the-africa-renewable-energy-forum-24-november-2016-at-the-four-seasons-hotel-marrakesh?lang=en\">APO &#8211; Africa-Newsroom: latest news releases related to Africa<\/a><\/small><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Africa Renewable Energy Forum, 2-4 November 2016 at The Four Seasons Hotel, Marrakesh: At COP 21 it was determined that approximately $ 19 billion of finance will be provided annually by developed countries for Africa&rsquo;s renewable programme by 2020. 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