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 [...]
By Wayne Visser*
Last week, I was hosted by Ufadhili Trust to deliver a 2 day workshop on CSR in Nairobi, Kenya. As I was last in Kenya 20 years ago when I attended an AIESEC African Leadership Development Seminar, it was wonderful to return and compare my impressions.
The biggest changes have [...]
By Nnaemeka Meribe
If nothing is done soon to combat climate change, the number of armed conflicts raging in Africa is likely to increase, and this may swell the number of deaths from war, according to a new report.
Climate change, according to Wikipaedia, is a change in the statistical distribution of weather over periods of time [...]
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 [...]
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