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Heathrow airport in London uses more energy than the whole African nation of Sierra Leone [population ~8.5 million

Marches, protests and sabotage attacks as City at forefront of global campaign against industry

From CLIMATE REALISM By Anthony Watts and H. Sterling Burnett An article published in BNN Breaking News by author Aqsa Younas Rana, titled “Climate Change to Plunge 200 Million Africans…

The 1970s oil crisis helped pave the way for Kenya to utilise its vast geothermal resources beneath the Great Rift Valley

Mansoor Hamayun, the co-founder and chief executive of Bboxx, started out with a university project to bring solar power to a few villages in Rwanda. Now he is set to expand tenfold across sub-Saharan Africa

Ethiopian cereal production increased 467 percent;

Climate scientists say fossil fuel use needs to fall rapidly – but oil-rich kingdom is working to drive up demand

Small communities who were not consulted about exploration schemes in protected areas are standing their ground

Move would cost less than $5bn and cut toll of deaths from power outages and lack of supply, Cop28 delegates will hear

In Sub-Saharan Africa, the push for electric vehicles is a diversion from the region's more urgent problems.

The economic benefits of fossil fuel production are obvious and badly needed.

Rather than racing to extract natural gas, those who caused the climate crisis should help Africa harness its wind and sun

By Jo Nova Does anyone care? 600 million Africans don’t have electricity They burn wood for power. Forests are razed and no one even notices. As Geoff Hill says, they warm their homes and cook their food the only way...

Madeleine Finlay hears from the Guardian’s east Africa global development correspondent, Caroline Kimeu, about the challenges and tensions at play at the inaugural climate summit

Oil-producing African nations argue they should be able to use fossil fuel resources for economic growth