Topic: Expanding Access to LEAP: Now Free for an additional 54 Countries (146 Total) Subscribe | Previous | Next
Charlie Heaps 11/14/2024
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Exciting news about LEAP: the Low Emissions Analysis Platform!
As you may know, LEAP is distributed based on our licensing policies that are designed to make it as accessible as possible to energy and climate practitioners in developing countries, while asking other users to make a fair contribution to the ongoing development, maintenance and support of the system.
In the past, SEI made LEAP available free of charge to governments, NGOs, and academic organizations in low-income and lower-middle-income countries and to students worldwide, while charging a license fee to other users.
Recent improvements in LEAP have stoked a growth of interest in LEAP among high-income countries, utilities, and consulting companies. This means we can now also make LEAP available at no cost to governments, NGOs, and academic organizations in upper-middle-income countries and in most Small Island Developing States (SIDS)◊.
This new licensing arrangement is available immediately. Eligible users can apply for free licenses here.
For more information, please see the following resources, which also describe the launch of SEI's new Fossil Fuel Atlas: a new online interactive mapping tool designed to document the impact of fossil fuel production on people, nature, and the climate.
◊ “Defined as SIDS with annual average per capita income less than $32,000.
The list of 54 countries that will newly be able to use LEAP at no charge is as follows: American Samoa, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, French Polynesia, Gabon, Grenada, Guatemala, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Montenegro, Nauru, North Macedonia, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Peru, Puerto Rico, Serbia, Seychelles, South Africa, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Thailand, Tonga, Trinidad & Tobago, Turkiye, Turkmenistan, Turks & Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Venezuela.