Energy access: despite mobilized funding, Africa still lags behind
As decision-makers, professionals and development finance institutions gather in Abidjan this Tuesday, March 21, 2023 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast for the Energy Access Investment Forum (EAIF), AFRIK 21 take
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KENYA: Finnfund sells its stake in the 310 MW Lake Turkana wind farm
The Finnish Fund for Industrial Cooperation (Finnfund) is selling its shares in Lake Turkana Wind Power (LTWP), the special purpose company that operates the 310 MW Lake Turkana wind farm.
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NIGERIA: UEF to subsidise solarisation of 3,500 small businesses
The Universal Energy Facility (UEF) will provide performance-based grants to several solar energy providers in Nigeria.
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AFRICA: BII injects €20m into Meridiam’s urban climate resilience fund
In response to population growth and climate change affecting several African cities, British International Investment (BII), the UK's development finance institution, is injecting €20 million into the
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One Forest Summit: don’t stop there…
The One Forest Summit was an important moment of mobilization by allowing a unity of time and place around a crucial issue, that of forests.
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AFRICA: the forest and its many virtues, facing climate hazards
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) took the opportunity of the International Day of Forests on March 21, 2023 to raise awareness of the importance of preserving this ecos
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AFRICA: DPA to Provide 12MW of Solar Power to Adac’s Data Centres
A partnership has just been signed between DPA Southern Africa (DPA SA) and Africa Data Centre (ADAC).
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AFRICA: Afri-Plastics awards Toto Safi from Kigali and seven other green start-ups
Founded in 2016, Green Industry Plast (GIP) Togo wins first prize in the Afri-Plastics competition on sustainable plastic waste management organized by the British foundation Nesta Challenges and suppor
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SOUTH AFRICA: Vestas wins 373 MW order for three wind farms
Danish company Vestas Wind Systems will install the wind turbines for the Brandvalley, Rietkloof and Wolf wind farms in South Africa.
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MOZAMBIQUE: Stockholm commits $19m for resilience to climate shocks
Sweden is providing $19 million in funding to support people's resilience to climate shocks in Mozambique.
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IVORY COAST: UAE-based Masdar negotiates 70 MWp solar photovoltaic plant
The energy company Masdar (Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company) based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has signed an agreement with the Ivorian authorities.
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Revealed: UAE plans huge oil and gas expansion as it hosts UN climate summit
Exclusive: UAE’s fossil fuel boss will be the president of Cop28, making a mockery of the summit, say campaigners
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IPCC’s 6th synthesis report. Time to change the narrative.
Time to use the forbidden words, Liability and Reparations.
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G7 ministers set big new targets for solar and wind capacity
The Group of Seven rich nations on Sunday (16 April) set big new collective targets for solar power and offshore wind capacity, agreeing to speed up renewable energy development and move toward a quicker phase-out of fossil fuels.
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Europe’s green hydrogen rush risks energy ‘cannibalisation’ in Africa, analysts say
Europe’s green hydrogen plans have set off a race among developing nations, particularly in Africa, to become the bloc’s first suppliers, risking energy needs among their own populations.
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Climate interventions only help women when they have a seat at the table
Over the period that different parts of the world have been experiencing the many effects that come with climate change, world leaders have taken various actions in response.
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Global Citizen Prize 2023: Meet the 5 Remarkable Activists Who Are This Year’s Winners
From conflict to food insecurity to climate change, the world is facing multiple compounding crises and it can be easy to feel like the future is bleak.
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Climate change fuels violent conflict in Kenya, says WFP report
A new report by World Food Programme (WFP) says climate change has contributed to violent conflict in multiple settings across Kenya and this is expected to continue as the impacts of climate change worsen.
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Who Will Pay? Wheels start to turn within the ICJ and Loss and Damage Transitional Committee
Both the ICJ and the Loss and Damage Transitional Committee will have to answer who will pay for climate change loss and damage. On 29 March, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a
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Global warming is disrupting an Antarctic current system that life on Earth relies on The base of the food chain could lose much of its nutrient supply if the current collapses
The term "abyssal ocean" conjures up ominous images, and rightly so — the literal deep sea abyss is extremely dark, at or near freezing temperatures, and full of peril.
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