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- The problem is that we’re not there yet. Solar doesn’t work at night, the output slips in cloudy weather, and turbines stand idle when the wind doesn’t blow.
- Prefab Floating Music Hub to set sail in Cape Verde Sat, 1 Aug 20, 1:30amInternational design practice NLÉ has unveiled its designs for the MFS IV, a prefabricated Floating Music Hub for the port city of Mindelo in Cape Verde...
- UK could face lawsuit over $1bn aid to Mozambique gas project Tue, 21 Jul 20, 4:28amGovernment accused of hypocrisy for backing scheme while claiming to be leading on climate
- Africa can become a renewable energy superpower – if climate deniers are kept at bay Mon, 20 Jul 20, 3:30pmNigel Lawson’s thinktank is pushing dirty energy on the continent with the greatest capacity for creating clean fuel
- Tensions mount as Ethiopia allows dam across Nile headwaters to fill Thu, 16 Jul 20, 4:01amEgypt fears hydroelectric project will restrict limited waters on which its population depends
- Petrol sold to Nigeria from Europe 'dirtier' than black market 'bush' fuel Wed, 1 Jul 20, 4:30pmSamples from illegal refineries in Niger delta found to be of a higher quality than imported petrol in new analysis
- GWPF Launches “Energy For Africa” Week Tue, 30 Jun 20, 3:00amIn all the discussions about the developing world, about its poverty and its stuttering progress towards a developed future, it is all too easy to forget the ordinary people and their suffering.
- Could entomophagy end U.S. and African protein shortages? Tue, 16 Jun 20, 11:00pmWould we even want it to do so? A modest proposal, inspired by Jonathon Swift. Paul Driessen Nearly two centuries ago, amid a fungal infestation that destroyed Irish potato...
- The Sun Exchange raises $3M for crypto-driven solar power in Africa Tue, 9 Jun 20, 7:58pmSouth Africa-based renewable energy startup Sun Exchange has raised $3 million to close its Series A funding round totaling $4 million. The company operates a peer-to-peer, crypto-enabled business that allows individuals...
- Nonprofit plants 80,000 trees in Kenya and Rwanda Tue, 31 Mar 20, 3:30amThe name of global environmental charity One Tree Planted seems excessively modest now, as they’ve just finished planting 80,000 trees in Africa. Rwanda got 60,000 new trees, and Kenya got 20,000.[...]
- The real reasons Africa has another locust plague Mon, 23 Mar 20, 8:00amThe UN, environmentalist pressure groups and their financial backers have a lot to answer for Paul Driessen The ChiCom coronavirus and COVID-19 outbreaks, deaths and responses continue to dominate US, European and Asian news...
- Plan to drain Congo peat bog for oil could release vast amount of carbon Sat, 29 Feb 20, 1:00amDrilling in one of the greatest carbon sinks on the planet could release greenhouse gases equivalent to Japan’s annual emissions, experts warn
- Keeping Africa on the brink of starvation Mon, 24 Feb 20, 5:00pmUN and EU government agencies – and tax-exempt NGOs – have brought a plague of locusts Paul Driessen Billions of desert locusts have descended again on East Africa...
- UK taxpayers funding African fossil fuel projects worth $750m Thu, 6 Feb 20, 11:01amWatchdog reveals huge sum ploughed into ‘world’s dirtiest fossil fuels’ despite climate vow
- ‘Hypocrisy’: 90% of UK-Africa summit’s energy deals were in fossil fuels Fri, 24 Jan 20, 7:27pmExclusive: Almost £2bn went to oil and gas despite a UK pledge to support cleaner energy in African countries