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1. Africa's booming tech space will define the continent's future

   (Newsletters)

   ... on the backdrop of insufficient access to energy, sporadic political instability, the effects of climate change, and limited infrastructure. Let's not forget the ever widening gap between stalwart, clueless, ...

   Thursday, 27 May 2010

2. Lewis Pugh: In search of tomorrow

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   Lewis Pugh is a man for the moment. His steely resolve, tough mental attitude and absolute conviction about climate change is only matched by the extremes of the deadly, icy waters he swims in. The swimmer, ...

   Wednesday, 28 April 2010

3. Adopt a tree in Africa

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   ... with the UN Environmental Programme to fight climate change by planting indigenous or naturalised trees in areas where the land has been stripped of them.   The Tree-Nation organisation is inviting ...

   Wednesday, 21 April 2010

4. Aid from the needy: Africa's support of Haiti

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   ... the economic repercussions of climate change and the need to mitigate the looming humanitarian crises faced by many developing economies. This is a unique occurrence in the history of the continent, and ...

   Wednesday, 17 February 2010

5. The road to prosperity

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   ... of the continent for the better. After the December climate change summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, the world's attention is very much focussed on renewable energy and the development of new forms of power ...

   Wednesday, 13 January 2010

6. 2009: a good year

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   ... sharing programmes across the continent. Going green and the energy push With the United Nations Climate Change Summit, in Copenhagen, having started this week we have seen one of Africa's defining moments ...

   Wednesday, 16 December 2009

7. The grass is green here: Africa and the eco-uprising

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   ... is working hard to reinvent their power needs. With the effects of climate change and global warming high on the agendas of the developed world there is a need to rewrite and rewire the forms of power ...

   Wednesday, 26 August 2009

8. From the World Economic Forum on Africa: a sense of opportunity, not crisis

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   The World Economic Forum on Africa closed June 12 in Cape Town on a broadly optimistic note. By the time it was over, Africa’s businessmen and entrepreneurs had claimed that the global crisis represented ...

   Wednesday, 17 June 2009

9. South Africa's Zuma to co-chair UN panel on climate change

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   Tags: [Climate Change, United Nations Second Panel on Climate Change Sustainability, Ban ki Moon, Jacob Zuma, Tarja Kaarina Halonen, Finland, South Africa]  ...

   Thursday, 12 August 2010

10. New marine centre to study Africa's climate challenges

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    Tags: [Norway, climate change, ocean, data, weather, Nasen-Tutu, South Africa]  ...

    Monday, 24 May 2010

11. World Bank works to promote environmentally-sensitive development projects

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    Tags: [climate change, World Bank, policy, change, Africa]  ...

    Friday, 14 May 2010

12. African monsoon research to shift focus

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    Tags: [monsoon, climate change, global warming, environment, African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses, West Africa]  ...

    Thursday, 06 May 2010

13. Malawi, UNDP sign $4.2m climate change deal

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    Tags: [UN, UNDP, document, climate change, Malawi]  ...

    Monday, 19 April 2010

14. Policymakers to get hotline to climate experts

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    Tags: [Climate change, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Climate and Development Knowledge Network, UK Department for International Development, Developing countries, Saleemal Huq, International Institute for Environment ...

    Thursday, 18 March 2010

15. Fertiliser can offset heat for African farmers

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    Tags: [African smallholders, climate change, fertiliser, rainwater, International Crop Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics, Agricultural Production System Stimulator, Karuturi Rao, Peter Cooper, Kenya] ...

    Wednesday, 17 February 2010

16. Tunisia: Most electrified country in Africa

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    Tags: [African Business, Powering Africa, electrification, social development, energy inequality, climate change, South Africa, Morocco, Mauritius, Libya, Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia, Africa]  ...

    Tuesday, 02 February 2010

17. Burkina Faso: Farmers act on climate change

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    Tags: [Copenhagen talks, confederation of farmers in Burkina Faso, Bassiako Dao, World Bank, Emmanual Nikiema, National Action Adaptation to Climate Change Programme, Francois Traore, National Union of ...

    Monday, 25 January 2010

18. WWF commends Zuma

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    Tags: [Climate Change Summit, Copenhagen, Jacob Zuma, WWF, Morne du Plessis, Tasneem Essop, South Africa]  ...

    Tuesday, 08 December 2009

19. African climate policy centre receives $8.5 million from Sweden

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    Tags: [Sweden, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Abdoulie Janneh, Jens Odlander, climate change, Africa]  ...

    Wednesday, 02 December 2009

20. Senegalese NGO plants 34 million mangroves to offset carbon emissions

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    Tags: [NGO, France, Danone, carbon, Oceanium, mangrove, Haidar El Ali, climate change, Senegal]  ...

    Monday, 09 November 2009