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Startup Series: Odyssey Energy
Inevitable
Emerging Markets: Driving Climate Action
The pivot to emerging markets came when the speaker was 25 and spent time on Wall Street thinking about how to move the needle with banks or institutional investors that were thinking about how climate policy would impact their portfolios./nThe head of the UN panel on climate change spoke about a program that his institution in India was running to bring small solar lights to rural communities in India, and the speaker needed to spend time in emerging markets to truly understand the climate challenge./nSo the speaker put together a Fulbright research proposal and headed to Delhi and spent a year in lots of different states all over India and rural communities working on different distribution models for small-scale solar./nEven at the time, the challenges that we were facing were very basic, like how to convince communities that had never seen solar lights to buy them, to trust them, and this was a great way to light your home.
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