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Sustainable green finance in African real estate sector
26 Apr 2024 08:49 GMT
… Africa, focusing on Zimbabwe and the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) … traced back to the Kyoto Protocol of 1997, which … with sustainability objectives.
In Zimbabwe and Sadc nations, … sponsored incentive programmnes.
In Zimbabwe and Sadc nations, …
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Just energy transition: The way to go for Africa
25 Apr 2024 12:06 GMT
Authors: Raymond Ofagbor and Joel Odili.
1.0 INTRODUCTION
Last year, the Conference of Parties (“COP 28”) took place in Dubai, UAE, featuring conversations and a renewed commitment to lay the ground work for a swift, just and equitable transition from …
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Fresh scramble for Africa, this time through carbon credit - a new method
07 Apr 2024 21:01 GMT
Samburu governor Lati Lelelit (second right) receiving a dummy cheque of Sh 10 million from officials of the Northern Rangelands Trust led by carbon credit project director Dr Mohammed Shibia (center) on February 28, 2024 in Maralal town. The money is …
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Carbon markets, the new Band-Aid solution to climate change in Africa
05 Apr 2024 15:07 GMT
Packaged and sold as an alternative way to mobilising the increasingly diminishing climate finance in a win-win compromise or wooing private sector investment in climate change mitigation, carbon markets could be the new Band-Aid solution to climate change …
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WATCH: ‘Africans must solve continent’s problems’
05 Mar 2024 01:51 GMT
Mashudu Netsianda in Victoria Falls
AFRICAN countries should scale up investments in climate proofing, technology absorption, and adaptation towards building greater resilience of communities and nations against climate change while capitalising on the …
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‘Africa should unite, look inward for development’
04 Mar 2024 23:40 GMT
Africa Moyo in VICTORIA FALLS
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has called on African countries to focus on internal resource mobilisation and an inclusive pro-people development philosophy that promotes cooperation among nations to ensure balanced development across …
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Clarion call for enhanced drought adaptation, mitigation measures
12 May 2024 03:21 GMT
So dire is the situation that water levels in Zimbabwe’s Lake Kariba have plummeted to precarious levels; the drought has been reported to be the worst in four decades; and the country’s maize crop has been cut by a substantial margin compared to the …
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How the BRICS+, Africa Climate Summit, G20 and UN Prepare Us for Planetary Arson
09 Dec 2023 06:19 GMT
… than 2000 fatalities in Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe. Likewise, droughts … seismic blasting near the Namibian border by an … system would replace the Kyoto Protocol’s binding provisions. As … climate catastrophes, especially in Southern Africa. But in making …
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Africa to speak with one voice at COP28
30 Nov 2023 09:39 GMT
Kudzanai Sharara in Dubai, UAE
African countries will speak with one voice at the 2023 UN Climate Change Conference (COP 28) which convenes from today to the 12th of December 2023 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE).
This is according to the Draft …
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Cement is a big carbon emitter and quality is costly: a civil engineer explains
10 May 2024 12:07 GMT
Every year the world uses 4 billion tonnes of cement to make the concrete that goes into buildings and other infrastructure. It leaves a huge carbon footprint, and comes with other costs too.
Civil engineering professor Elsabe Kearsley, who researches …