Rachel Kyte wants you to imagine a sustainable energy future. As the CEO of Sustainable Energy for All, an initiative launched by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in 2011, she sees improvements in efficiency as the key to reaching that goal.
Taking the stage at the Asia Clean Energy Forum last week, held at the Asian Development Bank headquarters in Manila, Kyte asked the audience to close their eyes and visualize success. At the annual meeting of the Caribbean Development Bank in Jamaica last month, she did the exact same thing.
“We have to imagine that we're going to be successful. The people in that room are leaders … private sector leaders, government leaders,” she told Devex in an interview, while emphasizing the sheer magnitude of the task ahead. “We've got to help economies through a transition which no one ever had to go through. … This is uncharted territory, and we have a lot of what we need at our disposal but it's not being used effectively today.”
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Lean Alfred Santos@DevexLeanAS
Lean Alfred Santos is a former Devex development reporter focusing on the development community in Asia-Pacific, including major players such as the Asian Development Bank and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. He previously covered Philippine and international business and economic news, sports and politics.
