Africa
14 June 2010
The United Nations (UN) climate change talks in Bonn over the past fortnight have made important progress towards concluding what was left incomplete at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in 2009, said the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
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10 June 2010
KEMA, a global authority in energy consulting and testing and certification, has appointed three new members to its supervisory board.
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10 June 2010
Club deals are the financing structure gaining most traction for infrastructure investments from the banking sector into the wind energy space, according to industry experts.
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10 June 2010
The debt markets within the wind energy space have become increasingly relationship driven, according to industry experts.
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10 June 2010
Centralisation is needed to drive the development of wind energy technology, according to wind industry experts at the New Energy World Network Driving Development in Wind Energy Technology panel.
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7 June 2010
Renewable energy could account for 95 per cent of the world's electricity supply by 2050, according to new research by leading climate change academics and lobbyists.
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7 June 2010
The Prime Minister of Norway, Jens Stoltenberg, has become the co-chair of the United Nations (UN) on climate change financing, replacing former UK Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, according to UN News Centre.
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7 June 2010
South Africa's first private equity clean technology fund, Evolution One, has reached its final close at ZAR700m ($94m) in capital from local and foreign investors, including supranational and sovereign wealth funds.
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3 June 2010
The World Bank has approved $330m for Kenya to expand electricity access and deepen investment in green energy.
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2 June 2010
The UK government's development finance institution, CDC, has committed $50m to the first private equity fund to focus solely on sustainable forestry in sub-Saharan Africa.
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1 June 2010
Environmentalists are seeking new ways forward to include emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in the latest series of UN climate talks taking place in Germany this week.
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28 May 2010
Global shipments of wood chips fell by 14 per cent in 2009 as the financial crisis had a negative impact on worldwide demand for pulp, according to new figures.
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28 May 2010
The International Energy Agency (IEA) said it will maintain its forecast for renewable energy generation to constitute 60 per cent of all electricity produced by 2030, according to reports.
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27 May 2010
Dr Klaus Rave has been elected as chairman of the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) for a two-year term, replacing Arthouros Zervos who had been chairman since 2006.
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27 May 2010
Norway has formed agreements today with governments of Mexico and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, pledging to work with both on protecting the climate through tackling deforestation, and agreeing to pay the latter $2.1m to strengthen the African voice in climate negotiations. The country is also rumoured to have pledged to donate up to $1bn to support Indonesia's effforts to tackle climate change.
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24 May 2010
Though Africa accounts for just under two per cent of the 2,060-plus registered clean development mechanism (CDM) projects in 63 countries worldwide, the continent has seen a strong growth trend in the past few years, according to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
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21 May 2010
Geothermal power is growing rapidly across the globe with a 52 per cent increase in the number of countries actively pursuing geothermal power projects and increasing cooperation between countries, the Geothermal Energy Association (GEA) found in a recent study.
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19 May 2010
The World Bank and its member the International Finance Corporation have put together a $12m budget to target low-cost renewable energy lighting sources in Africa, according to reports.
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18 May 2010
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) has appointed Christiana Figueres as its new executive secretary, replacing Yvo de Boer who announced his resignation in February.
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17 May 2010
The United Nations' future Conference on Sustainable Development, which marks the twentieth anniversary of the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, should focus on accountability and produce strong and enforceable national commitments if it is to play a part in moving towards sustainability, an environmental lobby group said.
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