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- A few months back, my Linkedin feed was inundated with posts celebrating the remarkable growth of South Africa’s Solar Photovoltaic (PV) sector signalled by a significant surge in solar panel imports....
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- There is no one size fits all on climate policy: each country and context will play a significant role in making sure that priority needs are met, the right resources acquired, and implications well understood. But three “building block” principles can underpin these efforts and strengthen the complementary climate policy/climate finanance nexus:...
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- You might think that there is hardly anything less exciting than innovative products and business ideas that come from a university context: Too much theory, too little practical relevance. The 12 participants of the Clean Energy Bootcamp of Startup|Energy from April 10 to 15, 2024 in Nairobi proved the opposite....
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- Albania, Bhutan, Nepal, Paraguay, Iceland, Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo produced more than 99.7 per cent of the electricity they consumed using geothermal, hydro, solar or wind power. Due to technological trajectories set in motion by past policy, a global irreversible solar tipping point may have passed....
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- In many countries, women can't own the assets they need as collateral for a loan, with just 14 countries giving women the same economic rights as men, according to the foundation. Lack of access to capital is a particular obstacle in countries facing very high inflation, such as Nigeria, where inflation is 18.8%, the report notes....
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- Sustainable sourcing, eco-design, industrial and territorial ecology, the functionality economy, responsible consumption, extended useful life and waste recycling. These seven points sum up the circular economy, a practice that aims to extend the life cycle of products in order to reduce the consumption of raw materials and the production of waste....
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- Kuza Freezer collects plastic that washes up on a Mombasa beach, breaks it down, and recycles it into cold storage units, aka freezers. The freezers, which are powered by solar panels, are then sold to small-scale fish businesses for Ksh 100,000. Since its founding three years ago, Kuza Freezer has already delivered more than 350 of its units....
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- As Africa continues to battle the effects of global warming while taking climate action to check the release of greenhouse emissions, the Co-founder and Executive Director of Climate Action Africa (CAAF), Grace Oluchi Mbah has called on the Federal Government to provide more low-interest loans for solar companies....
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- While solar irrigation has potential for reducing poverty and improving livelihoods and incomes in low and middle income countries (global south), greenhouse gas emissions reductions are not likely to meet expectations, and the groundwater use will increase....