{"id":6263,"date":"2011-12-05T23:32:59","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T22:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=6263"},"modified":"2011-12-09T14:37:26","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T13:37:26","slug":"energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2011\/12\/05\/energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy Aid Founded by IBM and Practical Action Launches to Provide Universal Energy Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www-03.ibm.com\/press\/us\/en\/pressrelease\/36154.wss\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6264\" title=\"Energy Aid Founded by IBM and Practical Action Launches to Provide Universal Energy Access\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/111209_ibm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>IBM (NYSE:   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/investor\" target=\"_blank\">IBM<\/a>)   and international development charity Practical Action today announce   the launch of Energy Aid, a new global charity with a mission to  provide  sustainable energy for those who have limited or no access for  heating,  lighting, cooking, communications and mechanical work.Energy Aid recognizes that improved access to energy can be a  route  out of poverty for the 1.3 billion people globally who have no  access to  electricity. As a result, the charity will identify and  address issues  preventing large portions of the population from using  electricity  safely such as helping the 2.7 billion people a year who  cook with  biomass, wood, dung, coal and other solid fuels to avoid  indoor smoke  from cooking stoves. Surpassing the death toll caused  by Malaria,  indoor smoke kills 1.4 million people each year, most of  which are women  and children. Energy  Aid will provide investment and resources including data,  technology,  skills and research across the world&#8217;s poorest areas  including South America, South Asia  and sub Saharan Africa. This will  support charities and agencies  running or planning energy projects in  these regions, helping people to  find their own way out of energy  poverty. Currently more than 80 percent  [2] of these energy projects  are not achieving their goals and  charitable investment is under  pressure. This situation highlights the  need for a charity that will  support local organizations and charities  and encourage collaboration  between the private, public and charity  sectors, which can attract  private investment. <a href=\"http:\/\/www-03.ibm.com\/press\/us\/en\/pressrelease\/36154.wss\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: Global | Company: IBM |  Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www-03.ibm.com\/press\/us\/en\/pressrelease\/36154.wss\" target=\"_blank\">IBM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Image via Shutterstock and earthtechling.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM (NYSE: IBM) and international development charity Practical Action today announce the launch of Energy Aid, a new global charity with a mission to provide sustainable energy for those who have limited or no access for heating, lighting, cooking, communications and mechanical work.Energy Aid recognizes that improved access to energy can be a route out&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[39],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-6263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ibm","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6263"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=6263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}