Subject: Fw: Island energy budget
From: Amitabh Desai <[email-masked]>
To: Bruce Lindsey <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 12:43:29 -0500

FYI: Darien (Islands guy at CCI) says the proposed work would NOT require staffing by any of the existing CCI "clean energy" team.

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From: Darien Sturges
To: Amitabh Desai
Sent: Mon Feb 06 12:41:23 2012
Subject: Re: Island energy budget

For the technical assistance? Beyond myself, I believe the needed expertise sits in CCI-C40. The folks currently left on CCI Clean Energy don't really have experience in these types of technologies (though I'm sure could learn).

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From: Amitabh Desai
To: Darien Sturges
Sent: Mon Feb 06 12:34:11 2012
Subject: Re: Island energy budget

Nope, thanks. While we wait for that: would this effort require anything from the existing clean energy team at CCI?

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From: Darien Sturges
To: Amitabh Desai
Sent: Mon Feb 06 12:32:14 2012
Subject: Re: Island energy budget

Hi Ami,

I can write up this memo, but am still waiting for UNDP to get back to us with a partnership and funding offer. Let me know if you need something asap.

Darien

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From: Amitabh Desai
To: Darien Sturges
Sent: Wed Jan 25 18:55:58 2012
Subject: RE: Island energy budget

No rush
Both
thanks

From: Darien Sturges
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 6:55 PM
To: Amitabh Desai
Subject: Re: Island energy budget

Not yet, but I can draft one. Can it wait until mid-next week?  That's when UN and the islands will get back to us with specifics of what they will agree to.

Do you mean pros/cons of working with UNDP and islands in general, or the pros/cons of participating in the competition concept?

From: Amitabh Desai <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:48:38 -0500
To: Darien Sturges <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
Subject: RE: Island energy budget

Thanks. Do we have a one-page summary of what this would look like (summarizing below in a way that reflects what UN would agree to) and including costs/etc for us? And maybe a couple lines saying here are the pros, here are the cons of doing this?

From: Darien Sturges
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 6:47 PM
To: Amitabh Desai
Subject: Re: Island energy budget

My sense is that this would be fine. I think they would like the added visibility that President Clinton's involvement would bring to an announcement (the group of islands and UNDP are both very eager to make a splash at the Rio conference), but UNDP obviously has the wherewithal to put on a high-profile event themselves.

It may even be preferable to focus only on the technical assistance piece, since there would be less to coordinate between the three organizations, and they would get more of the credit.

From: Amitabh Desai <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:35:35 -0500
To: Darien Sturges <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
Subject: RE: Island energy budget

Curious if UNDP can run two processes simultaneously – one to select the islands, and one to get the companies involved. So that we don’t have to do anything except provide technical assistance to the island winners, involving the company winners.

From: Darien Sturges
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 6:33 PM
To: Amitabh Desai
Subject: Re: Island energy budget

Are you asking whether the UNDP contest can happen simultaneously while CF still does the technical work, or whether the UNDP contest can happen without CF and we don't get involved in any islands work?

From: Amitabh Desai <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:21:03 -0500
To: Darien Sturges <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
Subject: RE: Island energy budget

Can UNDP conduct a simultaneous contest for companies interested in doing this work, or can the UN go out and get the companies involved, so CF / CCI is not in the position of being perceived to be picking favorites?
Also the list of staff at bottom was cutoff – could you resend it?
Thanks.

From: Darien Sturges
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 5:45 PM
To: Amitabh Desai
Subject: Re: Island energy budget

Yes - it is still very much in discussion so nothing has been agreed to by either side, but they are aware of our concerns and constraints around President Clinton's involvement. The arrangement you laid out is actually what was suggested by them, e.g. predominantly technical assistance and predominantly around issues of financing. The head of SIDS (the body of islands) is also fine with this arrangement and can make a formal request for assistance if it would help. Regarding our costs, they were quite positive, but the next step is that they are discussing it internally and will come back to us in a week with more specifics of what this may look like (eg whether matching funds would speed the process), but then we can discuss with them again.

One thing regarding corporate partners, they (UNDP and the island governments) would be looking to us to help bring in the companies, since they do not have these relationships with the private sector. But the actual selection of companies would be up to the islands themselves.

Darien

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From: Amitabh Desai
To: Darien Sturges
Sent: Tue Jan 24 17:25:24 2012
Subject: RE: Island energy budget
Thanks. One question, to be sure: UNDP already has been made aware of the form of our involvement (which would be limited to providing technical assistance to the island nations that win the UN’s contest, without us being involved in the selection of the island nations or the corporate partners) and they are comfortable with that level of involvement and with covering our costs? Thanks, Ami

From: Darien Sturges
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 4:45 PM
To: Amitabh Desai
Subject: Island energy budget

Hi Ami,

As discussed, a few thoughts on a potential budget for an island energy program. These are very preliminary estimates, while the exact collaboration between the Clinton Foundation and UNDP is still being defined. I would be very happy to discuss further.

Cheers,

Darien

A few notes:

The first phase of a Clinton Foundation/UNDP island program (or competition) is expected to encompass three islands; one in the Caribbean, one in the Pacific Rim and one in the Indian Ocean/Africa region.

The bulk of the work will begin in June once the three initial islands are selected.

For illustrative purposes, names are attached below of CCI staff with significant expertise and longstanding private sector relationships in the relevant area. The assumption is the program will require 25% of their time, and they have all indicated a strong desire to participate -- if it can be arranged with C40. If it is instead necessary to hire new people, the salary component of the budget may increase as much as 2x.

The UNDP has indicated they are willing to cover Clinton Foundation costs of this magnitude (e.g. $500K-1mn) via existing technical assistance budgets. However, they have also indicated that they could support a much larger scope, as well as sign off faster, if the Clinton Foundation can contribute matching funds.