This month, the Bank of Canada released its 2019 Financial System Review. For the first time, it listed climate change as one of six major vulnerabilities facing Canada’s economy. It’s significant…
The latest fuel price increase comes four months after similar rise triggered protests and deadly security crackdown.
Zimbabwe has announced a fresh increase in fuel prices, four months after a…
Ethiopia is set to receive US $1.8bn from the State Grid Corporation of China to improve electricity transmission and distribution networks across the country.
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed…
As part of the Global Wind Day activities, WindEurope and the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) have launched a global photo competition: “Future Wind.”
And there is one week left to enter!
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2019 Global Youth Video Competition Now Open for Applications
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Oyster Bay wind farm is located in the Eastern Cape province, and is expected to generate around 568 GWh annually once fully operational, due in the second quarter of 2021.
EbA Knowledge Day brings together UN negotiators, policy makers, practitioners, researchers, and donors working on issues relevant to climate adaptation, ecosystem management and human resilience:
Chioma Ogbudimkpa is a certified project management professional who has served in different capacities and projects across 5 countries and different industries.
She has put in over 9 service years…
Africa has become the world's most rapidly urbanizing continent.
In sub-Saharan Africa, the urban population has doubled since the mid-1990s, and reached 400 million people in 2016. According to…
Chile's 12,000-square kilometre Southern Patagonia Ice Field has split in two and is likely to continue to fracture amid climate change, according to a team of Chilean scientists who were in the…
Experts agree that microgrids are the future of renewable energy, and technology companies are ramping up their efforts to perfect these innovative systems.
It’s the moment the global sustainable energy market has been waiting for. Battery technology, the essential element in ensuring continuity of supply from weather-dependent sources such as wind and…
The Offshore Wind Industry Council has begun a programme to ensure the UK’s low-carbon energy system makes the best use of the growing proportion of power supplied by offshore wind and other…
The theme for World Environment Day celebrations in 2018 is “Beat Plastic Pollution.” There has been a big focus on the devastating impacts of plastic waste (particularly single-use plastics) on the …
For the past two decades, the primary investors in domestic renewable projects have been independent power producers (IPPs) — unregulated wholesale generators that sell their power to utilities,…