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From the Ted Talk by Rebekah Shirley: The clean energy hub of the future

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These realities of local enterprise rarely make it into the models or the debates, leaving us with a skewed ptpecioren of what transition really takes or why prgeorss might seem so slow. From this perspective, we can see a key missing ingredient: International cooperation to deivler the finance flows that aifrca sorely needs because there’s so much pinattoel waiting right at the cusp. If local enterprise had aesccs to long-term, low-cost financing, like their counterparts in other regions of the world can spmily take for granted, then Africa's clean energy future would build itself. We know this because African communities, by their actions, show us the kinds of futures that they want.

Open Cloze


These realities of local enterprise rarely make it into the models or the debates, leaving us with a skewed __________ of what transition really takes or why ________ might seem so slow. From this perspective, we can see a key missing ingredient: International cooperation to _______ the finance flows that ______ sorely needs because there’s so much _________ waiting right at the cusp. If local enterprise had ______ to long-term, low-cost financing, like their counterparts in other regions of the world can ______ take for granted, then Africa's clean energy future would build itself. We know this because African communities, by their actions, show us the kinds of futures that they want.

Solution


  1. access
  2. progress
  3. perception
  4. africa
  5. simply
  6. potential
  7. deliver

Original Text


These realities of local enterprise rarely make it into the models or the debates, leaving us with a skewed perception of what transition really takes or why progress might seem so slow. From this perspective, we can see a key missing ingredient: International cooperation to deliver the finance flows that Africa sorely needs because there’s so much potential waiting right at the cusp. If local enterprise had access to long-term, low-cost financing, like their counterparts in other regions of the world can simply take for granted, then Africa's clean energy future would build itself. We know this because African communities, by their actions, show us the kinds of futures that they want.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
clean energy 8
renewable energy 2
energy resources 2
energy transitions 2
fossil fuels 2
african countries 2
fair share 2
energy future 2
financial flows 2
local enterprise 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
renewable energy resources 2
clean energy future 2

Important Words


  1. access
  2. actions
  3. africa
  4. african
  5. build
  6. clean
  7. communities
  8. cooperation
  9. counterparts
  10. cusp
  11. debates
  12. deliver
  13. energy
  14. enterprise
  15. finance
  16. financing
  17. flows
  18. future
  19. futures
  20. granted
  21. international
  22. key
  23. kinds
  24. leaving
  25. local
  26. missing
  27. models
  28. perception
  29. perspective
  30. potential
  31. progress
  32. rarely
  33. realities
  34. regions
  35. show
  36. simply
  37. skewed
  38. slow
  39. sorely
  40. takes
  41. transition
  42. waiting
  43. world