Gas consortium seeks approval to drill 7,700 wells in Queensland, including near national parks
Australia Pacific LNG wants environmental approval to drill across nearly half a million hectares of central and south-west Queensland.
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Stop peddling fear of climate migrants.
Beating the anti-immigrant drum does nothing to help climate action. Exaggerated predictions for future flows of people have long formed the core of the anti-immigration playbook. When you add the impacts of climate change to the equation, the numbers skyrocket.
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Dangerous narratives and climate migration.
Why the climate movement has been telling the wrong story and how to make it right.
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UN Chief Backs Wealth Tax on Rich Who ‘Profited’ From Pandemic.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is calling on nations to institute a wealth tax to help reduce global inequality exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Masdar, EDF begin construction of 300MW solar farm in Saudi Arabia.
A consortium between Abu Dhabi-based Masdar, EDF Renewables and Nesma Holding Company has broken ground on a 300MW PV project in Saudi Arabia.
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Guest post: How ‘high-resolution’ climate models will help Europe plan for extreme weather
“Convective” storms cause some of Earth’s most dramatic weather, including extreme rainfall, hail, lightning and severe wind gusts. Along with lighting up the skies, these storms frequently cause catastrophic damage.
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Op-ed: 5 billion bananas get thrown away each year — how reducing food waste can help solve the climate crisis
Sometime over the last month, you probably threw away a banana. Maybe it got too ripe. Or maybe your child didn’t like the one he was eating with the spotty, brown skin.
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WEBINAR Financing Community Energy: Unlocking the Finance Needed to Speed Up Renewables Development in Europe - 15/4/2021
The IRENA Coalition for Action Community Energy Working Group and the EU Community Power Coalition
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Kenya warns of 'vaccine apartheid' as it hits back at the UK over travel ban move
Kenya has sounded the alarm over a potential coronavirus "vaccine apartheid" playing out between countries, as it accused the United Kingdom of instituting a "discriminatory policy" after London issued a travel ban on the east Afr
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Kenya Lamu mosque: Anger over T-shirt worn by Jay-Z. P
A US-based designer has apologised for using a portrait of a historic mosque in Kenya's island of Lamu on a T-shirt worn by celebrity Jay-Z, an official in charge of the site has told the BBC.
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African Leaders Push for Strong Action on Climate Change.
JOHANNESBURG - A pandemic has blanketed the planet. Economies have cratered. Across the world, people are scared, anxious and unsteady about the future. And you want to talk about climate change? Yes, say African leaders. Now.
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‘No other home’: Refugees in Kenya camps devastated over closure.
Kenya has given an ultimatum to the UN refugee agency to present a plan over the closure of the Dadaab and Kakuma camps housing more than 400,000 people.
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SA’s Sun Exchange completes $1.4m crowdsale for solar-plus-storage project in Zimbabwe.
South African startup Sun Exchange has completed the crowdsale for a 510 kilowatt solar-plus-storage installation to solar power packhouse and cold store facilities for Zimbabwean agriculture leader Nhimbe Fresh, with approximately US$1.4 million of solar cells purchased by over 1,700 individu
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Africa Seeks $25 Billion for Climate Adaptation, Green Recovery
African nations aim to double funding for climate change adaptation projects to $25 billion over five years as they look to foster a green recovery from the economic damage wrought by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Ηow farmforte is creating novel solutions to existing problems in the African agriculture landscape.
One of the major factors hindering productivity within Africa’s agricultural sector is the use of outdated production technologies and practices.
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How large miners and states stifle local capital and innovation in DR Congo
Over the last few decades, African governments have removed restrictions on and privatised their mining industries, attracting significant foreign direct investment.
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Bangladesh needs a renewables focus, not a switch from ‘coal to gas’
Renewables are cheaper and more sustainable than gas imports, and can provide better energy security in developing nations The emerging markets of Bangladesh and Vietnam are alluring for foreign energy companies looking to make money in the region.
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New York state pension fund to divest from six Canadian oil sands companies
New York’s state pension fund is restricting investment in six Canadian oil sands companies because they have not shown they are prepared for a transition to a low-carbon future, the fund’s Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said on Monday.
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Karnataka state government says it will not build any new coal-fired power plants
The [Karnataka] state government [in India] has decided to cap thermal power production and not invest in such plants henceforth.
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Vistra to close Joppa coal plant in Illinois in 2022, three years ahead of schedule.
Vistra Corp. and its subsidiary Electric Energy Inc. announced a decision April 6 to move up retirement of the 1,002-MW Joppa power plant in Illinois to occur by Sept. 1, 2022, three years earlier than the previous plan.
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