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Africa/ Renewable Energy/ Sustainability

Africa’s Telecommunications Towers Could Soon Become Solar Powered

ImogenBraddick September 19, 2017

Ambitious thinking means that many of Africa’s more than 240,000 telecommunications towers may soon become solar powered. Presently many are powered by expensive diesel generators as they are often attached to unreliable electricity networks or are in remote areas without access to power. GreenWish Partners, a Mauritius based renewable energy company, has recently announced plans […]

Africa/ Renewable Energy/ Sustainability

Landlocked Lesotho Receives Funding for First Solar PV Plant

Ken Fullerton September 18, 2017

In what is positive news for the development of renewable energy in the southern Africa region, Lesotho has recently acquired a grant of almost USD 700,000 to develop a 20-megawatt solar photovoltaic (PV) plant. USD 695,000 in grant funding has been awarded to NEO I SPV, a subsidiary of OnePower Lesotho, and will be used […]

Environment/ Sustainability

Earth Overshoot Day: We Need Funding to Fight Climate Change

Ken Fullerton August 31, 2017

The recent passing of Earth Overshoot Day greatly emphasises the need to obtain additional financing to help combat the threats of climate change. Earth Overshoot Day “Marks the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year.” For, 2017 Earth Overshoot Day was […]

Entrepreneurship/ Environment/ Sustainability

Can We Use Internet Searches to Plant Trees?

Ken Fullerton August 31, 2017

Internet search platform Ecosia has set itself the ambitious goal of funding the planting of one billion trees around the world. It is an approach which is both innovative and unique and that, so far, has resulted in the planting of over 12.3 million trees, at a rate of one every two seconds, with over […]

Environment/ Sustainability

Finance: Key Agenda Item of UN Climate Change Negotiations

Ken Fullerton August 30, 2017

The provision of finance is set to be a key item on the agenda at the upcoming United Nations Conference of Parties (COP) 23 climate change negotiations. The conference is being convened under the Presidency of Fiji and will take place at the World Conference Center in Bonn, Germany between 6 and 17 November 2017. […]

Africa/ Renewable Energy/ Sustainability

SOLARKIOSK Joins UN Business Call to Action

Ken Fullerton August 29, 2017

In very recent news, German based sustainable energy firm SOLARKIOSK has joined the United Nations’ Business Call to Action (BCtA). In joining the BCtA it has pledged to establish 940 solar-powered retail businesses, known as E-HUBBS, across the east African countries of Tanzania, Rwanda and Kenya by 2020. Doing this promises to provide “Sustainable energy […]

Environment/ Sustainability

Going Carbon Neutral: Google and Lego Lead the Way

Ken Fullerton August 28, 2017

Increasingly, businesses and organisations are realising that in order to remain competitive and to their increase market share they will have to do so in a low-emissions future by becoming carbon neutral. Becoming carbon neutral means that an organisation effectively has a net zero carbon footprint. Any carbon dioxide it is responsible for releasing into […]

Renewable Energy/ Sustainability

Global Poor Most Affected by Climate Change

Ken Fullerton August 28, 2017

When people consider the need to finance climate change and the transition to a green and zero carbon economy they will often think of large-scale infrastructure developments such as solar parks and wind farms. What they tend to forget or even not know about is that poor people – those living at the Base of […]

Environment/ Sustainability

Divest From Fossil Fuels, Invest in Clean Climate Solutions

Ken Fullerton August 17, 2017

In an effort to meet the objectives and targets set out in the Paris Climate Agreement there is a growing call to divest from fossil fuel industries and instead invest in clean and renewable climate solutions. Doing so is not only likely to help transfer funding from fossil fuel industries to green solutions but is […]

Africa/ Education/ Renewable Energy/ Sustainability

YALI offers new online Renewable Energy course

Ken Fullerton July 17, 2017

The Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) recently launched a new online, and free to take, course called Understanding Renewable Energy. It forms part of its #YALIGoesGreen imitative which aims to help raise awareness and support the increased use of renewable energy sources around the world. YALI believes that “Developing the best practices and technologies to […]