Approach

Our core environmental, social, and governance practices are directly consistent with the sustainable development goals and the contributions of each country established under the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change. We focus on biodiversity protection, agricultural production, clean water, and societal investment in communities within our region of East Africa.

We work closely with all local stakeholders to provide direct and measurable positive contributions to healthy community development. This focus on helping local communities is a core composition of our business philosophy and strategy, and is a key driver of our performance metrics. We push beyond economic values to those directly aligned with relevant sustainable development goals. This philosophy is central to our social capital and license to operate. We also design our financing around investors who share these core beliefs within their own development expectations and outcomes.

Sustainable Development Goals

Incorporating positive societal outcomes through measures across SDGs:

  1. Food security
    Low income food markets, power source and technology in large scale farms
  2. Poverty alleviation
    Technology applied to smallholder farms including data gathering, restoring degraded land
  3. Addressing climate change
    Dietary switch informing protein choice, reforestation with forest ecosystem services
  4. Reducing waste
    Micro-irrigation, reducing waste in the food value chain, reducing consumer food waste, reducing and recycling packaging waste especially plastics.
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Organizational focus:

  • Baseline biodiversity and environmental impact analysis.

  • Community understanding of resource value and development application.

  • Full engagement on land resources and value including any use conversion factors.

Upepo Wind Energy business ethos:

  • Extension for ESG credits by working in partnership with local communities and their SDG focus, multinational corporations, local corporations and investors. Establish partnerships aligned with;
  • AREI; strategy aligned with African Renewable Energy Initiative
  • UNEP; aligned with agricultural initiatives, TEEB Ag Food and EBAFOSA
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