| Columbia University Students Working With E+Co Win Progressive Sustainability Award A student team from SIPA's International Energy Management and Policy Program received this year's Leous/Parry Award for Progressive Sustainability for its work on increasing access to energy in rural Ghana. The group is working with three clients: E+Co, Grameen Ghana, and the International Finance Corporation's Lighting Africa Project. They explored several projects intended to increase access to energy for rural populations in Ghana, seeking to achieve a balanced understanding of the role of energy in development, environment and business activities in developing countries. Professor Glenn Denning, Associate Director of the Center for Globalization and Sustainable Development at the Earth Institute, judged the eight entries. He noted that all of the entrants successfully addressed the call to examine a social or political problem, highlight its environmental roots, and present an actionable, cross-disciplinary solution. "The Ghana energy proposal stood out for a variety of reasons," he said. "The team effectively demonstrated sound prior research of the issue and options, and that the impact of the team will extend potentially beyond Ghana and have relevance to much of sub-Saharan Africa." Read what one of the winners had to say here. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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