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Coca-Cola Beverages Africa invests $50m in Namibia, boosting production capacity by 30%

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Source: © 123rf Standard Bank Group and Meridiam hosted an event, Unlocking public infrastructure investment in South Africa, to unlock investment opportunities in alternate energy infrastructure on the continent

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Kenya's Safaricom raises $117m with local sustainability-linked loan

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Kenya’s devastating floods expose decades of poor urban planning and bad land management

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Namibia breaks ground on continent's first green iron facility

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Ethiopia claims disputed GERD dam has reached final fill

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Senegal seals €2.5bn green energy deal with richer nations

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Morocco's OCP plans $7bn green ammonia plant to avert supply problems

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Saudi companies buy 2.2 million tonnes of carbon credits in Kenya auction

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Solar power due to overtake oil production investment for first time - IEA

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Generative AI and sustainability driving investment in tourism technology

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#AfricaMonth: Renewable energy deployment and the need for increased investment in Africa

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Coca-Cola Beverages Africa invests $50m in Namibia, boosting production capacity by 30%

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Pedestrians walk outside the Safaricom mobile phone customer care centre during the launch of its 5G internet service in the central business district of Nairobi, Kenya, 27 October 2022. Reuters/Monicah Mwangi/File Photo

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Senegal seals €2.5bn green energy deal with richer nations

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File photo: A vehicle carries untreated phosphate after being dropped off on a mountain at a phosphate mine at Boucraa factory of the National Moroccan phosphate company (OCP) situated in the southern provinces, 100km southwest of the town of Laayoune 18 February 2016. Reuters/Youssef Boudlal/File Photo

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Riham ElGizy, CEO of Regional Voluntary Carbon Market Company (RVCMC), speaks during a Reuters interview ahead of the voluntary auction of carbon credits, with projects in Kenya, Rwanda, Egypt and South Africa, at the auction in Nairobi, Kenya, 14 June 2023. Reuters/Thomas Mukoya

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Solar power due to overtake oil production investment for first time - IEA

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#EnlitAfrica2023: Technology key to Africa's just energy transition

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Generative AI and sustainability driving investment in tourism technology

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#AfricaMonth: Renewable energy deployment and the need for increased investment in Africa

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First biophilic building in Africa set to rise in Cape Town

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China Energy proposes 1,000MW floating solar plant in Zimbabwe

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Supplied image: Nestlé and Chilanga Cement signing partnership agreement during the launch event. Pictured (from left to right): Chibuye Mbesuma Ngulube, general counsel & company secretary at Chilanga Cement, Honorable Gary Nkombo, Minister of Local Government and Rural Development and Zubayer Davids, country manager, Nestlé Zambia and Malawi.

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Kenya to set up 136 solar mini-grids for remote communities

Kenya to set up 136 solar mini-grids for remote communities

Duncan Miriri 28 Feb 2023

New French fund with €87.5m targets African solar development

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Forrest Crellin and Sudip Kar-Gupta 27 Feb 2023

IFC launches roadmap to decarbonising the mining of critical minerals

IFC launches roadmap to decarbonising the mining of critical minerals

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Is greenwashing a threat to sustainable construction?

Is greenwashing a threat to sustainable construction?

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Source: Supplied. Kent Marais, head of Platform Domain at Standard Bank.

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Earthshot Prize: 5 winners that will help solve major environmental problems

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#COP27: UAE, Egypt agree to build one of the world's biggest wind farms

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#GBCSA2022: Social justice and the built environment's role in confronting the climate crisis

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How droughts are impacting the global energy mix and energy security

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$400m loan to improve Egyptian logistics, transport sectors

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SBTi approves Saint-Gobain's 2050 emission reduction targets

SBTi approves Saint-Gobain's 2050 emission reduction targets

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Kenyan electricity producer KenGen adds 86MW to grid from geothermal plant

Kenyan electricity producer KenGen adds 86MW to grid from geothermal plant

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Southern Africa in prime position to become major green hydrogen exporter

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PPC Cement, Nextec to tackle decarbonisation challenge at African Smart Cities Summit

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Ugandan researchers develop low-cost sensors to track air pollution

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Renewable energy continued to grow, gain momentum in 2021

Renewable energy continued to grow, gain momentum in 2021

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Blockchain paves the way for social good in Zambia

Blockchain paves the way for social good in Zambia

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African Union welcomes EU support

African Union welcomes EU support

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