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Amid controversy, UAE appoints multi-faceted Al-Jaber to lead COP28

Sultan Al-Jaber’s appointment to preside over the end-year COP28 climate talks in Dubai brings a storied United Arab Emirates official to global prominence. His leadership in renewables developer Masdar and other UAE sustainable energy initiatives is welcome, but Al-Jaber’s powerful role as head of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) has added to climate campaigners’ fears that big hydrocarbons producers will take the COP process even further off track, write Jon Marks and African Energy staff.

Issue 476 - 15 January 2023

Pin Egypt, Mauritania, Morocco

Power, Resources, Future fuels, Strategy & risk, Politics & security

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Issue 477 - 31 January 2023

Madagascar: Lack of funding stalls progress of solar PV plants

Power, Renewable energy, Strategy & risk

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Madagascar: Credit guarantee unlocks local funding for Ambohipihaonana solar PV expansion

Issue 476 - 20 January 2023

A fair COP as big hydrocarbons plays line up?

Resources, Upstream oil & gas, Strategy & risk

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Nigeria fires up mini oil and gas bid round

Algeria expects Europe to share in investments to boost output in 2023 and beyond

Fresh bidding round and large gas finds offer hope for Egypt’s upstream

Issue 476 - 19 January 2023

Réunion/Indian Ocean: Aggreko contract supports coal-to-biomass transition

Power, Renewable energy, Thermal energy, Strategy & risk

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Issue 475 - 28 December 2022

Africa in 2023: the (relatively few) rich get richer while times remain hard for the majority

Pin Mozambique, Nigeria, Libya, Burkina Faso, South Africa, Mali

Power, Resources, Strategy & risk, Finance & investment, Politics & security

Latest Climate change headlines

Issue 478 - 17 February 2023

BP’s renewables drive criticised from all angles

Power, Renewable energy

Issue 478 - 12 February 2023

West Africa: World Bank launches new fund for renewables

Pin Sierra Leone, Chad, Liberia, Togo

Power, Energy storage, Renewable energy, Strategy & risk

In depth

Issue 475 - 21 December 2022

Cash-strapped Egypt loses badly needed revenue from gas flaring

Resources, Gas, Upstream oil & gas, Strategy & risk, Finance & investment

In depth

Issue 474 - 12 December 2022

UK firm to pilot ‘super-green’ hydrogen technology in Egypt

Resources, Future fuels, Strategy & risk

Issue 473 - 25 November 2022

COP27 fails to make progress on key climate goals, but African schemes offer some hope

Resources, Future fuels, Gas, Strategy & risk, Finance & investment

In depth

Issue 473 - 25 November 2022

Post-COP27 financing and other schemes to watch

Resources, Future fuels, Gas, Strategy & risk, Finance & investment

Free

Issue 473 - 23 November 2022

AfDB attracts $60m for Sahel-focused desert-to-power scheme

Pin Niger, Chad, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Eritrea, Burkina Faso, Mali

Power, Renewable energy, Strategy & risk, Finance & investment

Issue 472 - 10 November 2022

COP27: Southern Africa countries team up to seek energy project funding

Pin DR Congo, Angola, Namibia, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Tanzania

Power, Renewable energy, Transmission & distribution, Strategy & risk, Finance & investment

In depth

Issue 472 - 10 November 2022

Gas question rumbles at a divided COP

Resources, Gas, Strategy & risk, Finance & investment, Politics & security

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New report suggests SDG7 could be achieved by 2034

African Energy staff led research for the Africa-EU Energy Partnership’s second annual European Financial Flows on SDG7 to Africa report.

By 2027, almost 30% of Africa’s electricity will be generated using natural gas

Despite questions from some quarters over its applicability as a ‘transition fuel’, African Energy Live Data expects 18.3GW generated from natural gas to come online by 2027.

Research underlines challenges faced by carbon and renewable credits markets

Almost 50% of respondents to an African Energy survey said the certification of carbon or renewable credits is too costly or time-intensive.

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