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How Improved Housing in Under-served Communities Can Strengthen Climate Resilience
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  • Category: General Market News, Livelihood + Living
  • More than 1 billion people living in cities globally do not have reliable, safe or affordable access to basic everyday necessities like decent housing, running water and sanitation, electricity, health care, or transportation to get to work or school. This “urban services divide” is not only a development challenge but a roadblock to climate action...
French start-up Osmosun wins Euronext award for its containerised systems
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  • Category: Companies + Organisations
  • French start-up Osmosun®, formerly Mascara NT, has big plans for the future, including plans to become a leading player in water treatment and brackish water desalination worldwide. The start-up is already present on the markets of Mozambique, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Senegal....
IKEA Foundation supports EV transition in emerging markets with $100 million grant
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  • Category: Companies + Organisations
  • Through its Drive Electric Campaign, "Leapfrogging Partnership" the IKEA Foundation intends to accelerate access to clean, affordable, and zero-emission vehicles the world over. So far, Drive Electric's global approach has accelerated progress towards 100 percent clean transportation in over 65 countries....
Africa GIS Catalogue for Energy Planning
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  • Category: General Market News, Technology + Products
  • This platform compiles geo-referenced datasets detailing the distribution of populations, renewable energy resources, energy system infrastructure, and key demand centres as well as non-geospatial datasets of population growth rates, regulatory indicators, utility performance, and power market characteristics across the continent....
InfraCo Africa invests $12m to scale up solar irrigation offered by SunCulture
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  • Category: Companies + Organisations
  • SunCulture designs, manufactures, finances, installs and maintains solar irrigation systems. The investment is part of an oversubscribed $27.5-million Series B fundraise that is set to deliver access to Internet of Things- (IoT-) enabled solar-powered irrigation systems to hundreds of thousands of smallholder farmers by 2030....
African startups and investors must now make a case for their existence as funding dries up
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  • Category: Business, Finance
  • With individuals and investors flush with cash, the standards for raising venture capital fell, and startups that would not have otherwise raised venture capital did. That has caused a shift in startup and venture capital circles. While startups now have a harder time raising, investors also report similar difficulties when raising from partners....
Off-grid solar bench with wireless charging and Wi-Fi
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  • Category: Technology + Products
  • The bench provides off-grid wireless charging for student devices like phones and tablets and contains a Wi-Fi access point. It has integrated LED lighting, USB charging ports, and a double-sided poster display space. The bench also contains environmental sensors for monitoring air quality and flood and fire detection....
New Solar-Powered Desalinator Keeps Producing Clean Water Without Needing Sunshine
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  • Category: Technology + Products
  • Scientists have developed a new solar-powered system to convert saltwater into fresh drinking water which they say could help reduce dangerous the risk of waterborne diseases like cholera. Via tests in rural communities, they showed that the process is more than 20% cheaper than traditional methods and can be deployed in rural locations....
Malaria vaccine rollout shines light on value of renewable power
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  • Category: Livelihood + Living, Technology + Products
  • Millions to be vaccinated in huge public health effort against Malaria, which kills 608,000 a year. Ice-lined solar fridges, lasting up to 115 hours in high heat, enabling remote deployment. Investments in vaccine cold chain lead to threefold increase in doses given in 2019-2021. Innovations extend beyond vaccines. ...
What happened to the Just Energy Transition grant funding?
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  • Category: Finance, General Market News
  • We take a closer look at the Just Energy Transition grants register and some of the key trends, to determine who the money has gone to, when it was disbursed and what it was spent on....

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