Energy for All

Created in the wake of the 1992 Rio Summit, the Global Sustainable Electricity Partnership, formerly known as e8, is a non-profit international organization, composed of the world’s leading electricity companies, whose mission is to play an active role in global electricity issues within the international framework and to promote sustainable energy development through electricity sector [...]

Business as usual is not an option in developing countries Inclusive business models aim to go beyond philanthropy and corporate social responsibility to find synergies between development goals and a company’s core business operations. The world is experiencing a historic shift of economic and political power from the traditional industrialised countries to the so-called developing [...]

The Global Sustainable Electricity Partnership (formerly e8) and UN-Energy launched the global initiative for “Strengthening Public-Private Partnerships” On June 2, 2011.  In a press conference held at UN Headquarters in New York, Tariq Banuri, Director of the Division for Sustainable Development in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs affirmed the need for a global [...]

e8 and UN-Energy are co-hosting a Global Summit to Strengthen Public-Private Partnerships to Accelerate Global Electricity Technology deployment to be held at United Nations Headquarters in New York on 2 June, 2011. This summit will see the launch of the e8-UN-Energy global report that highlights the enabling policies and best practices of public-private partnerships for [...]