# Damilola Ogunbiyi

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Climate summit recommends global carbon tax

This summer has seen nations across the world battle wildfires and extreme temperatures. It now has the dubious honor of being the world’s hottest summer on record, according to the latest European Union data. This comes just as the first-ever African climate summit comes to close. Hosted by Kenya …

The Right Leader for the Right Moment: In Conversation with Damilola Ogunbiyi

In the last decade before the UN Sustainable Development Goals need to be realized, the challenge of meeting global energy goals at the speed and scale that is needed is a tough task. So, who better to talk about how we achieve them than Damilola Ogunbiyi, the United Nations Secretary-General’s Spe…

Innovative financing is needed to mobilise clean energy capital in developing countries. What could it look like?

Less than 1% of clean energy investments goes to developing countries. Guarantees and partnerships could increase this. The global energy transition effort is all about ‘the new’. New technology, new financing models, new ways of looking at energy systems. The need for ‘the new’ is greatest in deve…

What does global action for energy equality look like in 2025? | Recorded live at the SEforALL Global Forum in Barbados

Barbados may be a small island, but it's a frontrunner in clean energy, targeting net-zero emissions ahead of the global schedule. It's also the location for the 6th annual SEforALL Global Forum. Anant Wadhwa and Elizabeth Wangeci Chege welcome industry leaders and global energy decision-makers, t…

AI, Energy and Climate: Damilola Ogunbiyi: AI, Energy Access and the Digital Divide

More than a billion people in the world live in energy poverty, with little or no access to electricity. Can AI help put an end to energy poverty -- or could it make the problem worse? Is there a risk of a new digital divide, with the US, China and Europe integrating AI into their economies while m…

Damilola Ogunbiyi: AI, Energy Access and the Digital Divide

More than a billion people in the world live in energy poverty, with little or no access to electricity. Can AI help put an end to energy poverty -- or could it make the problem worse? Is there a risk of a new digital divide, with the US, China and Europe integrating AI into their economies while m…

Damilola Ogunbiyi on Clean Energy in Emerging Markets - Anticipating COP28

Energy access and clean energy development in emerging markets will be at the forefront of COP28 this year. In this episode, ESG Book's Isabel Verkes speaks to Damilola Ogunbiyi, CEO and Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (UN SRSG) for Sustainable Energy for All, and Co-Chair of UN-…

Damilola Ogunbiyi: Growth in the Global South

Damilola Ogunbiyi is CEO and Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All. In this episode, she joins Jenn to discuss the critical connection between energy access and poverty, why 666 million people still lack electricity, and how the Global South can leapfrog …

The World Decides: Clean Energy or Oil & Gas? | Ep243: Damilola Ogunbiyi

What if the future of clean energy isn’t decided in Washington, Brussels, or Beijing, but in Lagos, Nairobi, and Addis Ababa? Are we underestimating how fast the Global South is leapfrogging fossil fuels? And what happens when clean energy becomes the cheapest, fastest path to development, not a cl…

Power under pressure: Can energy security, affordability and net zero still move together? | From Climate Week NYC

A fresh shock to global energy markets has pushed an old question back to the center of the climate debate: When supplies tighten and prices rise, do governments double down on the transition, or reach for the fastest fossil fix? From the Strait of Hormuz to rising demand for cooling, the pressure …