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Africa: Panel Calls for Ten-Fold Boost in Power for Africa
allAfrica, 5 June 2015
Africa can boost its capacity to generate power - and, as a result, economic growth and jobs - without precipitating catastrophic climate change, argues Kofi Annan. Read more »
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Africa: Africa Needs Clean Energy Investment to Get Power to All - Panel
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 5 June 2015
African governments should aim to increase power generation 10-fold to give all their people access to electricity by 2030, an effort that would require a big increase in… Read more »
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Africa: Africa's Hidden Killer
News24Wire, 5 June 2015
Africans are dying every day because they don't have access to reliable and clean energy, a report released on Friday revealed. Read more »
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Africa: Africa's Leaders Must Take 'Decisive Action' to Generate Clean Energy - Kofi Annan
allAfrica, 5 June 2015
Some African countries are already leading the world in low-carbon, climate-resilient development, says Kofi Annan, in the annual report of the Africa Progress Panel. Read more »
Africa Progress Panel Calls for Ten-Fold Boost in Power
Africa can boost its capacity to generate power - and, as a result, economic growth and jobs - without precipitating catastrophic climate change, Kofi Annan has argued in an introduction to the annual report of the Africa Progress Panel.
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5 June 2015
"The effects of climate change are being felt all over the planet, but not equally" - Kofi Annan
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"This is a moment for human solidarity," says Africa Progress Panel chair Kofi Annan, introducing the panel's 2015 report. and also "Africa's moment ... see more »
Graça Machel launches a new report which says that Africa has the chance to leapfrog over old ways of generating power and to bring power to all Africans using new climate-friendly technologies.
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5 June 2015
Power, People, Planet: Seizing Africa’s Energy and Climate Opportunities
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- Africa Progress Panel
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African governments, investors, and international financial institutions must significantly scale up investment in energy to unlock Africa's potential ... see more »
The Africa Progress Panel shows how stopping the illicit flow of money from Africa could finance adequate electricity for the whole continent by 2030.
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According to the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Index, not only are 15 of the 20 least competitive countries in the world in Africa, they include economies which are ... Read more »
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From governance to gender equality, competitiveness to security, there were few challenges to Africa's development which did not come in for intensive debate at this year's World ... Read more »
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Minister of Public Enterprises Lynne Brown has denied rumours that plans for the privatisation of Eskom are under way and said that the country can expect three more years of power ... Read more »
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The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has granted a licence for a 500 megawatt power plant that may assist in alleviating the electricity crisis in the country. Read more »
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The country's economic challenges is being made worse by frequent blackouts attributed to fuel shortages and underperforming dams. Read more »
