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20 01 2023 | 08:10

Climate activists vow to take to streets to stop fossil fuel extraction

‘Cease and desist’ letter signed by over 650,000 people sent to oil and gas CEOs follows removal of Greta Thunberg from coal protest Hundreds of thousands of young climate activists have said they…

20 01 2023 | 07:59

UN head accuses fossil fuel firms of business models ‘inconsistent with human survival’

Criticism at Davos for big companies that, ‘like the tobacco industry’, ride roughshod over their own science The head of the United Nations has accused the world’s biggest fossil fuel companies of…

15 01 2023 | 12:54

AFRICA: Water, renewable energy, agriculture… a $500 million package from OFID

The Opec Fund for International Development (OFID) has approved loans totalling $500 million for several countries around the world, including a large part in Africa.

15 01 2023 | 12:49

TUNISIA: Tenders for 1,600 MW of solar and wind energy

The Tunisian government is simultaneously launching three calls for tender for the development of several renewable energy projects with a combined capacity of 1,600 MW.

15 01 2023 | 12:47

ALGERIA: 16 new plants to treat wastewater in response to water stress

In Algeria, the National Sanitation Office (ONA) has announced a hydraulic project in response to water stress. It involves the construction of 16 new wastewater treatment plants. The wastewater…

15 01 2023 | 12:45

TUNISIA: €285 million from KfW and the EU for drinking water and sanitation

Tunisia is receiving €285 million in financing from the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) and the European Union (EU) to accelerate water and sanitation projects. The financing, consisting of…

15 01 2023 | 12:43

MOROCCO: Belgium’s John Cockerill to set up an electrolyser production plant

The Belgian company John Cockerill has announced the formation of a joint venture with a Moroccan company with the aim of investing in the development of the nascent green hydrogen industry in…

15 01 2023 | 12:41

SENEGAL: The State recruits a consultant for flood management in Saint-L

While Saint-Louis is confronted with floods during the rainy season, the Senegalese authorities want to recruit a consulting firm to launch the second phase of the Rainwater Management and Climate…

15 01 2023 | 12:30

ALGERIA: An alliance between the AND and Cerefe to convert waste into biogas

ALGERIA: An alliance between the AND and Cerefe to convert waste into biogas Algeria wants to accelerate the energy recovery of solid waste. The country wants to strengthen this practice to reduce…

15 01 2023 | 12:28

KENYA: KfW lends €20m for water and sanitation in Kericho and Kisii

The Kenyan government has signed a €20 million (approximately 2.7 billion Kenyan shillings) financing agreement with Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW), the German development agency. The loan…

15 01 2023 | 12:26

EGYPT: KarmSolar secures $3m to provide 3.4MWp of solar power in Farafra

Egyptian company KarmSolar has secured $3 million in debt financing from the Egyptian subsidiary of UK commercial bank HSBC. The funding will enable the construction of a hybrid solar power plant…

15 01 2023 | 12:19

MOZAMBIQUE: Ncondezi secures land for its 300 MWp Tete solar power plant

The energy company Ncondezi Energy has obtained 950 hectares of land for the implementation of its solar project in the Tete province of Mozambique. Its park will have a capacity of 300 MWp, making…

15 01 2023 | 12:17

MOROCCO: sustainable food under discussion in Meknes in May 2023

"Generation Green: for sustainable food sovereignty". This is the theme of the 15th edition of the International Agricultural Show in Morocco (SIAM) which will open on 2 May 2023 in the northern…

15 01 2023 | 11:58

Activists sue French food firm Danone over use of plastics

Danone, the French yoghurt and bottled water company, is being taken to court by three environmental groups who accuse it of failing to sufficiently reduce its plastic footprint. EURACTIV’s media…

15 01 2023 | 11:43

European company plans major expansion of wind turbine blade recycling business

Continuum, which is already present in Denmark and the UK, plans to build six factories, the first of which will be in Esbjerg and is expected to be operational by the end of 2024, followed by a…

15 01 2023 | 11:38

Geothermal resources offer an off-ramp from risky, costly nuclear project

A Nevada geothermal proposal has the potential to be a less expensive, more certain option for a Utah utility than an unproven small modular reactor (SMR) with rising costs The costs of the…

15 01 2023 | 10:18

Households in Yorkshire ‘most willing to live near windfarm’

Midlands and north-east of England also show strong demand, says supplier Octopus Energy Households in Yorkshire, the Midlands and the north-east of England are most willing to live near a windfarm…

15 01 2023 | 09:37

Trudeau ‘Handcuffs’ Alberta UCP with Carbon Capture Investment Pitch

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may have “handcuffed” Alberta Premier Danielle Smith by urging her United Conservative Party (UCP) government to invest some of its multi-billion-dollar budget surplus…

15 01 2023 | 09:31

Fossils Should Pay Trillions to Store Carbon through 2050, Ex-Industry Execs Say

A group of former oil and gas executives and academics is calling for the industry to pay tens of trillions of dollars through 2050 to take full responsibility for every tonne of carbon it produces.

14 01 2023 | 18:58

Norwegian wind titan to build $3bn gigafactory to supercharge national 'green shift'

Lars Helge Helvig – whose investment house Valinor has the country’s largest private wind developer, Norsk Vind, in its portfolio – aims to build a lithium-ion battery complex with an annual capacity…