Solar Energy for Amazon River Dwellers
Centro de Estudos Avancados de Promocao Social e Ambiental
- Program Environment
- Program Area Advancing Climate Change Solutions
- Grant Amount $60,000
- Grant Period October 1, 2022–September 30, 2024
- Location Santarem, Brazil
- Geographic Focus Brazil
About this grant
This grant increase will cover costs of travel and participant travel, logistical support and communications and materials by Centro de Estudos Avancados de Promocao Social e Ambiental to support the Energy and Communities event in the Brazilian Amazon. This event brings together nongovernmental and community leaders from Indigenous, Quilombolo and river-dwelling forest peoples, government agencies and private sector renewable energy companies to advance renewable energy access for isolated communities in the greater Amazon rainforest.