It will now take just 15 minutes to travel from the Lagos Marina to the Mile 2 district. This is one of the advantages of the new metro system in Nigeria's business capital, whose first line is now…
On 8 September 2023, the Nkhata Bay drinking water plant, located in the capital of the eponymous district, was re-commissioned in the presence of Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera. The…
Faced with household waste pollution in Algiers, the National Waste Agency (AND) is planning to convert this waste into biogas. Algeria will benefit from the expertise of the Korean Environmental…
Global warming is being blamed as the main cause of storm Daniel, which devastated eastern Libya on 10 September 2023. Coming from Greece via Turkey and Bulgaria, the extreme weather phenomenon…
GreenShift Africa. This is the new platform recently launched in Kenya by US fund manager GreenMax Capital. It will provide financial support for African mobility start-ups in their commercial…
To limit tyre imports into Cairo, the Egyptian government is planning to set up a plant to recycle used tyres. On 12 September 2023, the Arab Industrialization Organization (AIO) signed a contract…
Kenya-based investment fund Catalyst has just completed a fundraising round that raised $8.6 million to finance 40 African start-ups focused on the climate.
Funding for the implementation of the 17…
In South Africa, independent power producer (IPP) Enernet Global has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Vedanta Zinc International. The aim is to decarbonise its mining operations in the…
Faced with increasing wastewater pollution in Kasserine, in central-western Tunisia, the government is speeding up construction work on the town's future wastewater treatment plant. The plant should…
Global Witness has drawn up a global report on crimes committed against environmental activists. In Africa, the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is worrying. The Central African…
Faced with water stress in Egypt, the authorities are betting on seawater desalination to meet the needs of the new towns being built in the north-west of the country. The seawater will be treated…
Yesterday, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivered her annual "State of the Union" address. EREF’s very much welcome her focus on the European Green Deal.
With the recent clear…
Doubts about whether heat pumps work well in subzero conditions shown to be unfounded, say researchers
Heat pumps are more than twice as efficient as fossil fuel heating systems in cold temperatures…
Unlike their US counterparts, EU policymakers still face the roadblocks of no money and no common treasury
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nglorious procrastination is one of the European Union’s standard responses to major…
Campaigners estimate about $3.7bn in trade finance was supplied to oil and gas projects despite bank’s green pledges
The World Bank poured billions of dollars into fossil fuels around the world last…
One of largest private universities in US, with endowment of over $5bn, takes steps to address climate crisis after years of student protest
New York University plans to divest from fossil fuels,…
Forecast downturn still ‘nowhere near steep enough’ to limit temperature rise to 1.5C, says watchdog
The world’s demand for oil, gas and coal will begin to decline this decade in “the beginning of…
Eleven countries have already pledged to exit the disastrous international charter treaty. We must join them
If Labour wants an energy transition in which working people don’t foot the bill, it has…
Fatih Birol, head of International Energy Agency, says countries planning expansion are ‘misjudging market trends’
Countries and companies planning to expand their fossil fuel production are taking…
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