The United Kingdom-backed Ayrton Fund has improved access to clean energy for 46 million people across emerging economies, mobilised more than £3bn in public and private finance and supported over 256,000 green jobs, highlighting the growing economic impact of international investment in clean energy innovation.
The figures were contained in a statement issued on Monday ahead of the Ayrton-Oxford Academic Symposium at the University of Oxford.
The symposium is convened by the UK Government’s Ayrton Fund in collaboration with the Africa-Oxford Initiative, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, the Transforming Energy Access Learning Partnership and UK Research and Innovation.
The statement noted that the fund’s programmes have built a global research and innovation ecosystem spanning 100 countries, involving 78 universities and more than 840 innovators, academics and delivery partners.
It read, “To date, Ayrton-supported innovations have improved access to clean energy for 46 million people across emerging economies, leveraged more than £3bn in public and private finance and supported more than 256,000 green jobs.”
