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, where leading academics, industry players, government officials and innovators gathered to strengthen global partnerships on clean energy research and development.
The symposium was 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.”
