Biogas Cuts Firewood Use in Rural Zimbabwe
On the Mutare-Masvingo highway, about 40 kilometres outside Zimbabwe’s eastern border city of Mutare, a woman and a child carrying...
Renewable Energy
China’s Solar Industry Is Losing Money. The Country Is Doubling Down Anyway.
This story was originally published by Grist through Covering Climate Now Shared Library. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Cheap,...
“The Injustice Is That We Are Being Asked to Transition from Energy We Never Had”
Esther Nyamekye Opoku is a Programme Officer at CORD Ghana (Centre for Opportunities and Rural Development), a civil society organisation...
El Niño Droughts Threaten Hydropower; Zimbabwe and Zambia Turn to Solar
The devastating El Niño-induced drought that crippled hydropower generation across Zimbabwe and Zambia has exposed the vulnerability of Southern Africa's...
Wildfires Are Becoming a New Threat to the Energy Transition in North Africa
Tunisia is experiencing one of its hottest summers on record, with temperatures approaching 50°C over the past two weeks. Combined...
RE100: Corporate Demand for Renewable Energy Is Outpacing Market Readiness
Climate Group is the international non-profit behind RE100, a coalition of more than 400 companies committed to sourcing 100% renewable...
Zimbabwe Civil Society Groups Rally Behind Buhera Residents Amid Lithium Mining Dispute
In 2023, while reporting on Zimbabwe's growing lithium industry, photojournalist Bernard Chiketo and I spent a day speaking with villagers...
Closing the Circle: How Morocco Is Building a Wind Energy Supply Chain
Along Morocco's Atlantic and Mediterranean coastlines, rows of wind turbines stand as visible markers of a national strategy to reduce...
Agrivoltaics in Bangladesh: Growing Food and Solar Power on the Same Land
Unlike many larger countries, Bangladesh cannot easily set aside vast stretches of unused land for utility-scale solar farms. Every hectare...
How the Viet Nam-Thailand-Malaysia-Singapore Framework Could Accelerate ASEAN Power Grid Integration
ESCAP (Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific) is a UN organization that promotes cooperation, sustainable development, and...
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