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Ed’s note: Energy poverty in our own backyard

Smart Energy International

It brings together academics, policymakers and various experts in the field of energy poverty for a series of seminars, workshops and discussions. Today, it is focused on Latin America, tomorrow on Europe (my own backyard), Thursday on Asia and Friday on Africa. We need strong political commitment.

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A Growing Wave of Litigation Spurs Climate Action

DeSmogBlog

In South Africa, three civil society organizations launched a case alleging that the government’s plans to obtain new coal power threaten various constitutional rights. But it also reflects a deeper evolution in the politics of climate change and in the attitude of activists, social scientists, media professionals, and lawyers.

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What Jeremy Leggett did next: The British solar pioneer turning his hand to 'ethically profitable' rewilding

Business Green

Here, the company is now already running habitat tours, educational seminars, and corporate eco-retreats at the Bunloit estate's onsite cottages and castle, with plans to add further community-based schemes going forward. That's important for the politics of land up here, the drive for land equality and everything else."

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Global Briefing: In-person COP15 biodiversity talks braced for delay to 2022

Business Green

The country's minister for maritime and investment affairs Luhut Pandjaitan told a seminar this week that he was optimistic the country could achieve net zero within 40 years, according Reuters. "I South Africa calls for global climate adaptation target. South Africa calls for global climate adaptation target.