Africa is lagging behind the rest of the world in developing renewable energy projects with initiatives aimed at producing clean and ‘green’ energy remaining largely under-exploited, warned a new report released today by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
A UNEP assessment noted that the entire continent has just over 120 carbon market projects up [...]
By Charlotte Webster*
A simple but effective solar kit is helping to bring light to homes in the less-industrialised world without the choking side-effects of kerosene lamps.
About 14 per cent of Kenya is electrified, Tanzania even less at 11 and Malawi a pitiful seven. These statistics correspond directly to poverty and development.
The extensive off-grid rural areas [...]
Africa’s cement industry will for two days this April gather in one of the continent’s biggest environmental and sustainable built environment events.
The inaugural Environmental Cement Africa Conference in Cape Town, South Africa will identify and deliberate on issues around the environment from the African cement producers’ perspective, Demsas Faloppa, CEO of Prescon Ltd, the event’s [...]
Below is a roundup of news from or about Sub-Saharan Africa for the period: 31 December 2009–13 January 2010, as compiled by the Science and Development Network (Scidev).
Tanzanian text message project monitors antimalarial stocks
A mobile phone initiative has been launched to increase the availability of antimalarials in remote areas of Tanzania. SMS for Life — [...]
Kenya’s Nobel laureate and environmentalist, Wangari Maathai, has sent a strong message to her country’s political class urging that forest conservation was important to reclaiming depleted resources.
Protagonists in the east African nation’s fragile coalition government have taken divergent positions on a symbolic tree planting exercise on Friday that was to have been led by president [...]
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