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TUNISIA: 31 waste management SMEs authorised to restart their activities

The National Agency for Waste Management (ANAGED) has given its approval for the reopening of 31 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) specialised in solid waste collection in Tunisia.

Climate Environment

NIGERIA: Zugacoin and Green Enclave to develop a smart city in Rivers State

Port Harcourt in Nigeria will soon be equipped with a green infrastructure package as part of its transformation into a smart city.

Energy Technology Solutions

SOMALIA: Solar-powered desalination system provides water to Caynabo

With funding from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Aptech Africa and Genius Watter are completing the installation of a solar-powered desalination system in Caynabo, Somaliland. In Somaliland, solar ener

Climate Technology Solutions

SOUTH AFRICA: Anglo American launches first hydrogen-powered mining truck

Mining operator Anglo American is launching Africa's first ever hydrogen-powered mining truck.

Energy Technology Solutions

MOROCCO: a feasibility study to develop 5,400 hectares of land in Fez-Meknes

CID (Conseil ingénierie et développement) has won the tender for the feasibility studies for the hydro-agricultural development project for 5,400 hectares of irrigable land in Fez-Meknes, Morocco.

Environment

Australia’s greenhouse pollution from coal higher per person than any other developed country, data shows

Australia had the highest levels of greenhouse gas pollution from coal per person than any other developed country in 2021, according to new data.

Environment

Mounting Drought Risk Confronts London, Other World Cities

With many of the world’s cities, and especially their poorest citizens, facing increasing risks of drought and water shortages, faster emissions cuts and the long overdue establishment of an international fund for loss and damage are needed, says a new report.

Environment

Egypt calls for a shared African position on climate and energy

Egypt has invited African countries to hold a consultative session on climate and energy to coordinate the African position ahead of COP27 in November.

Energy

Suicides indicate wave of ‘doomerism’ over escalating climate crisis

It was a stunning, grisly act. A man, a climate activist and Buddhist, had set himself on fire on the steps of the US supreme court. He sat upright and didn’t immediately scream despite the agony.

Environment

There’s no chance of cutting bills while the private sector runs the UK energy market

Our energy system is crucial to two of the biggest issues facing the British public: the cost of living crisis and the climate and environment emergency. Yet we are leaving this sector to be inefficiently and exploitatively run by private companies.

Energy

Gas industry and Coalition reach for a get-out-of-catastrophe-free card in climate crisis Monopoly

Scott Morrison’s loving embrace and financial backing of the gas industry has been a defining feature of his prime ministership. Hit with a historical pandemic, Morrison chose gas – not renewables – to fire an economic recovery.

Energy

The banks collapsed in 2008 – and our food system is about to do the same

For the past few years, scientists have been frantically sounding an alarm that governments refuse to hear: the global food system is beginning to look like the global financial system in the run-up to 2008.

Environment

This election, are the teals ready to take on the fossil fuel lobby that’s captured the major parties?

Here’s a gotcha question for an intrepid journalist to put in the final moments of the campaign: Mr Morrison, Mr Albanese, why are you killing the Great Barrier Reef? Unlike other gotchas, the query wouldn’t simply test the leaders’ powers of recall.

Energy

Boss of Hinkley Point C blames pandemic disruption for £3bn delay

The boss of Hinkley Point C has blamed pandemic disruption after admitting the new nuclear power station will start operating a year later than planned and will cost an

Energy

UK nuclear power stations’ decommissioning cost soars to £23.5bn

The cost of decommissioning the UK’s seven ageing nuclear power stations has nearly doubled to £23.5bn and is likely to rise further, the public accounts committee has said.

Energy

Shut down fossil fuel production sites early to avoid climate chaos, says study

Nearly half of existing fossil fuel production sites need to be shut down early if global heating is to be limited to 1.5C, the internationally agreed goal for avoiding climate catastrophe, according to a new scientific study.

Energy

Poisoned legacy: why the future of power can’t be nuclear

On 10 October 1957, Harold Macmillan sent a letter to President Dwight Eisenhower.

Energy

Climate chaos certain if oil and gas mega-projects go ahead, warns IEA chief

The world’s leading energy economist has warned against investing in large new oil and gas developments, which would have little impact on the current energy crisis and soaring fuel prices but spell devastation to the planet.

Energy

We can’t eat a new road’: Guyanese voice fears over true cost of Exxon’s oil bonanza

Annette Arjoon is not anti-oil.

Cumbria coalmine redundant before it even opens, say campaigners

Ministers and some Conservative MPs have argued that the Cumbrian mine could go ahead despite the

Energy