PerceptivX

Economic growth

How Indigenous economic development corporations can support a just, low-carbon energy transition

July 3, 2023

Indigenous communities can be involved in renewable energy projects in a number of ways. The benefits of revenues to communities can be important to improving their self-determination and economic reconciliation.

Expanding access to solar energy in Africa can spur economic growth, but there are dangers as well.

August 16, 2022

The African Energy Commission says expanded access to new, people-centred renewable energy systems will “lift hundreds of millions of people” out of poverty.

Why, despite some economists’ best efforts, the cost of combating climate change cannot be reduced to a single accurate figure

August 12, 2022

Back in November 2019, before the pandemic began, would you have guessed how important videoconferencing like Zoom would be in people’s lives just a few months later?