Smart Energy International

MAY 10, 2024

Elections in the EU and the US have our industry waiting with bated breath to see the next guard of political agendas take the scene and usher in policy updates – all at a critical time as 2025 and 2030 deadlines for our planet approach. The timing of Wood Mackenzie’s analysis is apt.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

APRIL 9, 2024

This partnership aims to highlight the KGC 2024 as the premiere geothermal event in Kenya, East Africa, and the African Region, highlighting the important role that Kenya has played in the global geothermal sector, as well as the opportunities for further growth. It is a non-political, non-governmental, and non-profit organization.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 14, 2021

It’s easy to see what’s motivating India’s emerging ecosystem of sustainable technology startups with a glance out the window from the office of Sangam Ventures in Gurugram, just outside of Delhi. Instead, they tend to be driven by enturepreneurs finding ways to package existing technologies to meet specific market needs.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2023

One of which is the elementary question of how hydrogen will be transported in a cost-effective manner – whether via pipelines, conversion into ammonia or using new liquefaction technologies. Continued innovation and investment will see this hurdle cleared in time.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The majority take a critical view of the economic and political framework for sustainability measures in purchasing or in materials management in their company: 61% perceive challenges, although 51% have already considered new sustainability measures in purchasing. Microgrid debt financing. Series A for silicon Li-ion battery anode.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2024

This fund could be used to support waste reduction initiatives [ via domestic composting, for example ], conversion of waste into resources via the circular economy, and development and implementation of local technologies for composting, recycling and use of landfill biomethane. “That would correspond to between 4.9 million and 57.2

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Meanwhile, the Dii re-emerged this year in connection with plans to develop hydrogen in North Africa, an idea that has met with a lukewarm reception from observers. In essence, Xlinks’ goal is the same as Nur Energie’s: to harness North Africa’s massive renewable energy promise for the U.K.

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 14, 2023

Now with an influx of sensing technologies, Whitworth noted that AI technologies are also being used to manage the data deluge of sensing information and helping to automate the analysis process. The continent of Africa needs this type of analysis. space – an ode to the power of the force.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Scatec believes that targeting the sub 25-megawatt segment with a lease model in emerging markets will allow it to steal market share from diesel, which is used for more than 250 gigawatts of power generation in Africa alone. In Africa, for example, the default rate is only about 3.5 Re-deployable systems.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Projects in 2021 focused on technology advancements and infrastructure preparations. Mhairidh Evans, principal analyst, CCUS and Emerging Technologies, and co-author of the report said: “We don’t believe we will see the same growth rate for the CCUS and hydrogen pipelines in 2022. 2022 hydrogen market trends. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 18, 2024

Its challenge lies in balancing renewable integration, grid variability and technological independence amidst geopolitical and energy sovereignty concerns. In Latin America and the Caribbean, the energy future is complex, balancing security, equity and sustainability amidst climate and political shifts.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Nawaz co-wrote a report released today titled “ Agenda for a Progressive Political Economy of Carbon Removal. ” For example, Blue Carbon, a company backed by the United Arab Emirates, has been buying enormous swaths of land in Africa to fuel its offsets program. “We We need to take a step back.”

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Fairsnape

JANUARY 22, 2020

We’re not telling you to rely on technologies that don’t even exist today at scale and that science says perhaps never will. We are not telling you to “offset your emissions” by just paying someone else to plant trees in places like Africa while at the same time forests like the Amazon are being slaughtered at an infinitely higher rate.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

million jobs in these technologies by 2050, with about 36 per cent of new jobs in the energy sector dedicated to manufacturing solar and wind. The highest gains in jobs could be seen in the Middle East, North Africa and United States with increases of one million jobs by 2050.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Growing consumption and demand of commodities has already seen large scale corporate-led land acquisitions for industrial production of cattle, soy and palm oil in Latin America, Africa and Southeast Asia. Use of digital technologies. Between 2001-2015, 27% of forest disturbance was attributed to commodity-driven deforestation.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 14, 2021

US Secretary of Energy, scientist and Nobel Prize co-winner for Physics (1997), and Lully Miura, Japanese scholar of international politics and a member of the Growth Strategy Committee of Cabinet Office?of The session titled, ‘Energy technologies and innovations that?contribute contribute to?a a carbon-neutral future’?,

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Investors are failing African entrepreneurs — it’s time for a change Salma Okonkwo Thu, 02/25/2021 – 00:10 Despite the global economic slowdown caused by COVID-19, the case for investing in Africa is stronger than ever. These figures get more concerning when considering the number of women-led or co-founded startups in Africa.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The flurry of public-private alliances to scale clean energy technologies announced at COP27 provides significant cause for optimism amid strained talks, write Nigel Topping and Simon Sharpe. Although we keep being surprised by it, research shows this kind of explosive growth of new technologies is actually quite predictable.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Of the two exceptions, Denmark and South Africa, the first did not mention Denmark’s role as the largest oil producer in the European Union, while South Africa’s stall was sponsored by the country’s top coal companies. South Africa, Australia, UK, and Germany. South Africa struck a deal on Tuesday for £6.2 Greenwashing’.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

degrees C is made possible by “negative emissions technologies” that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and compensate for the overshoot in emissions. . This kind of modeling requires making lots of assumptions about what the carbon budget is, what technologies will be available, and how much they will cost. degree C target.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 3, 2021

That is long term, patient capital that focuses on growth over dividends, is not always available to developing countries because of the perceived political and/or economic risks. In a recent study, the IE A found that in 2019 the number of people without electricity access was 770 million and 75% lived in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 18, 2022

South Africa and Namibia are leading the way in sub-Saharan Africa while Australia and New Zealand, which also have hydrogen strategies in place, also are developing or considering trade routes. And the transition is not a fuel replacement but a shift to a new system with political, technical, environmental and economic disruptions.”.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2021

It calculates the world's feasible reserves of solar and wind power stand at 5,800 petawatt hours (PWh) and 900PWh annually, using current clean energy technologies, figures that dwarf the 65PWh used by the global energy system in 2019. per cent of solar and 0.16 per cent of wind potential tapped thus far.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

Complicating the commonly-held assumption that climate disinformation is “always ideological, that people are spreading falsehoods in order to push a political agenda or enact a worldview,” King said a great deal of climate disinformation is beholden to only one principle: the maintenance of a profitable status quo.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 14, 2021

That is long term, patient capital that focuses on growth over dividends, but is not always available to developing countries because of perceived political and/or economic risks.

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Business Green

JANUARY 3, 2021

The technology also makes it easier for EU regulators to keep dirtier energy products and imports outside their borders, by applying methane emission standards and carbon border levies - a key part of the Green Deal. The political challenge, of course, is how to uncover polluters without raising the hackles of other global powers.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 7, 2020

It's not necessarily that the game of musical chairs has intensified in the C-suite, but you'll note major executive moves at big apparel, food, energy, finance and technology corporations, some of which have enlisted a chief sustainability officer (CSO) or equivalent for the first time. Who's news.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

What we need is genuine progress on getting the money, technology and innovation to where it is needed most: in less-developed countries hardest hit by climate change. At a macro level, there's enough green technology, infrastructure, and finance out there to mitigate and address the worst impacts of climate change.

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Low Impact

JUNE 13, 2021

As long as that’s the case, money will gravitate towards the concentrated wealth, because money attracts money, and gives access to the political system, so that you can get your way. Is there a party political solution? Yes, I’ve been talking with people at Grassroots Economics, who are spreading mutual credit through East Africa.

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Elemental Excelerator

APRIL 21, 2023

Elemental Excelerator, a nonprofit investor driving climate technology for social change, announced today the expansion of its climate coaching team to encompass experts in project and carbon finance, policy and equity and access. He also mentors early-stage entrepreneurs in the Department of Energy’s I-Corps Program. He received his Ph.D.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 21, 2021

She has successfully delivered projects touching on sustainable supply chain, local economic development, political, social and environmental risk assessment, governance capacity building and non-technical risk management in developing countries. Senior Director of Sustainability at of CarbonCure Technologies.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

This stifles any incentive for innovators to create cleaner technologies. From Canada to France , Australia to South Africa - imposing a pure carbon tax is fraught with compromises and political revolt, neither of which allow for a carbon tax high enough to achieve much of anything, let alone net zero.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Africa has the youngest population in the world, with 70 percent of sub-Saharan Africa under age 30. By providing youth with opportunity, education and training to allow them to fully participate in politics and society, which is critical for economic growth and stability, we can solve two problems at once.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2022

Indonesia boasts significant natural resources and rain forested areas, and is a major producer of products such as palm oil and rare earth minerals which are set to provide critical to clean technologies. The South Africa Just Energy Transition partnership is a great example of this.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Engie’s acquisition of Mobisol this month and a $50 million investment in BBOXX in August have highlighted the massive potential of Africa’s off-grid power market. “The program fits in with López Obrador’s politics,” said Coll. I think it’s just taking a while to refocus on this issue.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

The authors combined the survey results with a literature review to make specific COVID-19 recovery policy recommendations that invest in: Renewable energy infrastructure (assets, storage, grid modernization) and carbon removal technologies. They point out that already some countries like Mexico, South Africa, and the U.S. Hanna, R.,

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

West Africa battled the tragic spread of Ebola while the West remained largely ignorant to the horror of public health threats. In the meantime, the government intends for the deployment of proven heat pump technology to have scaled to 600,000 domestic units per year by 2028. Cast your mind back to 2014. A different time.

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