The City Climate Finance Gap Fund, a trust fund established by the World Bank and the European Investment Bank (EIB), has selected three African cities for technical assistance grants. The…
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A colleague recently sent me an article to read in Canada’s National Observer: “Cutting back on waste is possible – if you can afford it.” It argued that reducing household…
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Just as it did with our work schedules, exercise routines and social engagements, the pandemic has impacted our dietary habits. More than 80 percent of consumers said their food habits have…
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Only 48 per cent, approximately 615 million people, in Africa receive the health care they need. This is according to a report by the independent Africa Health Agenda International Conference…
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Aside from the myriad new challenges it introduced, the wide and rapid spread of COVID-19 also revealed long-standing global health inequalities. And while the pandemic may be the most widely…
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Boris Johnson, the UK prime minister, reportedly attributed the success of the COVID-19 vaccines to “capitalism” and “greed”. But he is wrong – the idea that private ingenuity and naked competition produced…
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Designer Henry Glogau developed a no-cost lighting solution for homes in shantytowns – a skylight dubbed ‘Solar Desalination Skylight’ that provides free lighting and drinkable water. During the day, the…
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Plastic pollution is a global scourge with plastic waste having become ubiquitous worldwide. We all suffer from it in some ways as microplastics has permeated even drinking water, seafood and table salt. Yet some…
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More than half of African companies are delaying their energy transition targets, leaving them in danger of missing the Paris Agreement target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050, a…
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For much of the last three weeks, the Flipflopi, a dhow made from recycled plastic, including a helping of old sandals, has been calling into ports across Lake Victoria. The…