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11 09 2022 | 21:22

More bankable clean cooking technologies projects needed in Rwanda

A lack of bankable projects from producers of clean cooking technologies could undermine clean targets set by Rwanda. Experts have said that even though Rwanda seeks to reduce the percentage of…

11 09 2022 | 21:17

African decentralized energy experts: Samson Tsegaye (Ethiopia)

Please briefly describe your background: where are you from, what was your education?

11 09 2022 | 21:13

Financing an ‘African’ just transition

The transition to ‘just’ energy has posed an economic challenge for many African governments, particularly those reliant on their vast hydrocarbon resources. Though many African countries are…

11 09 2022 | 21:08

Precooling and Cold Storage Methods for Fruits and Vegetables in Sub-Saharan Africa—A Review

Fruits and vegetables, known for their large nutrient potential, are more susceptible to high postharvest loss than other crops. Factors such as perishability, poor post-production handling and…

11 09 2022 | 21:03

Why We Need to Redefine Productive Use of Energy

Right now Productive Use of Energy, known as PUE to rural electrification practitioners, has governments, development banks, power utilities and renewable energy companies talking about ‘the…

11 09 2022 | 21:00

Off-grid solar expansion and economic development in the global South

In this paper, we seek to understand how the rapid expansion of off-grid solar energy across the global South since the turn of the century is influencing local and national processes of economic…

11 09 2022 | 20:43

EGYPT: Exporting electricity to Europe in the midst of an energy crisis

Negotiations are accelerating between the Egyptian and European authorities with a view to exporting clean energy from Egypt to Europe. The discussions should notably lead to a project to supply…

11 09 2022 | 20:40

EAST AFRICA: Toshiba Signs Geothermal Partnership With KenGen

Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen), the largest producer of geothermal energy in East Africa, has signed a partnership with Japan's Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation (…

11 09 2022 | 20:17

MAURITANIA: Total Eren joins Chariot’s Nour green hydrogen project

British company Chariot will implement its Nour project in partnership with Total Eren, the subsidiary of French multinational TotalEnergies. Chariot's project involves the production of hydrogen…

11 09 2022 | 20:15

KENYA: Voltalia and Trina complete the installation of the Kesses solar power plant

The French company Voltalia and the Chinese company Trina Solar are completing the construction of the Kesses solar photovoltaic power plant in Kenya. The 55.6 MWp project is being developed by the…

11 09 2022 | 20:10

CAMEROON: Chinese mining company on trial for murder and pollution

A case pending in the court of Batouri, in the eastern region of Cameroon, involves Mencheng Wang Woping. The Chinese mining company is accused by four families of being responsible for the death of…

11 09 2022 | 20:07

NIGERIA: Use of refuse bins to be mandatory from January 2023 in Lagos

The Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) is implementing reforms for the year 2023. Households in Lagos will be provided with two refuse bins each from January 2023, to support the waste…

11 09 2022 | 13:18

‘We’re going to pay in a big way’: a shocking new book on the climate crisis

In An Inconvenient Apocalypse, authors Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen write that society needs to be better prepared for an inevitable collapse

11 09 2022 | 13:13

How car culture colonised our thinking – and our language

We have become used to thinking about things from a driver’s perspective – but is that the sort of world we want? When we block traffic from a street, like for a sports event or a street party,…

11 09 2022 | 13:09

It is 100 days until Cop15 – and the omens are good for a global plan to protect nature

Despite many challenges, December’s crucial biodiversity talks in Montreal may set a new path for humans to live with nature

11 09 2022 | 13:03

Who will fund Sizewell C nuclear plant and when will it be built?

Boris Johnson is expected to confirm government funding for Suffolk project Boris Johnson is poised to sign off as prime minister by giving the green light for a new nuclear reactor costing up to…

11 09 2022 | 12:58

Over-consumption and drought reduce lake in vital Spanish wetland to puddle

Experts and environmentalists say aquifer feeding Doñana national park, a Unesco heritage site, has been overexploited for tourism and to water fruit farms

11 09 2022 | 12:23

Burning forests for energy isn’t ‘renewable’ – now the EU must admit it

The EU’s classification of wood fuels is accelerating the climate crisis. Next week, a key vote can change that

11 09 2022 | 12:18

Drought likely to push parts of Somalia into famine by end of year, warns UN

World is ‘in last minute of the 11th hour to save lives’, says aid chief, amid fears that crisis is worse than 2010 famine, when 250,000 died Two areas of Somalia are likely to enter a state of…

11 09 2022 | 12:13

Large parts of Amazon may never recover, major study says

Swathes of rainforest have reached tipping point, research by scientists and Indigenous organisations concludes Environmental destruction in parts of the Amazon is so complete that swathes of the…