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Doubling energy investment in Africa requires urgent action to bring down financing costs and boost access to capital

New report outlines innovative solutions for African countries to unleash the spending needed to achieve the continent’s energy and climate goals. Swift action to improve access to capital and ease financing costs is...

Three conditions that will help scale blended finance for nature-positive outcomes

“There is no pathway to limiting global warming to 1.5C without action on protecting and restoring nature,” wrote four architects of the Paris Agreement ahead of the COP15 UN biodiversity conference last December. “Achieving...

Extreme weather is the “new norm”

From mountain tops to ocean depths, the summer of extremes continues. Heatwaves are baking large parts of the northern hemisphere, fuelling unprecedented wildfires and disrupting marine ecosystems. Floods have transformed desert landscapes....

Young people hold the key to Africa’s green economy

Young people across the world are struggling to find meaningful work, with over 73 million unemployed youth globally. But nowhere is this problem more acute than in rural areas of developing countries...

Flash Flood Guidance System (FFGS): Advancing Women in Meteorology and Hydrology

Women make up 49.7 per cent of the global population, yet they are often ignored, and their rights violated. The result is a world that excludes and marginalizes half the population of...

FARMLAND – HOME TO SOLAR PANELS AND CROPS

Solar power plants require that the land on which they are installed be accessible and sunny and that there are transmission lines nearby to release the generated energy into the power grid....

EU’s domestic material consumption remained stable in 2022

In 2022, the domestic material consumption of the EU economy remained relatively stable at around 14.5 tonnes per person, indicating a very slight increase of 0.4 percent compared with 2021 (14.4 tonnes...

Low-cost solutions can give billions access to modern cooking by 2030, but the world is failing to deliver

Nearly one in three people around the world still cook their meals over open fires or on basic stoves, resulting in significant damage to health, living standards and gender equality – and...

Why restoring nature is good for farmers, fisheries and food security

Humanity depends on ecosystems, such as forests, wetlands and rivers, to survive. They provide clean water, house animals, like bees, that are essential to food production, and play a key role in...

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF URBAN PLANNING AND ECOLOGY

Apart from the conventional challenge of making cities a better place to live, urban development today must also respond to the challenges created by climate change by adapting the physical space to...

ENVIRONMENTAL PRESERVATION IN LINE WITH PRIORITIES AND STANDARDS

When discussing environmental security, we should first highlight the problem of different attitudes towards it. Previously, there were two understandings in the study of environmental safety. According to the first, people cannot...

GREEN SPACES IN CITY AREAS UNDER THREAT

Almost every piece of advertising, from cosmetics to vehicles, is imbued with green themes, while in reality, they could be found in traces. This trend is also present in spatial planning of...

Yunet IoT in the Service of Nature

By leveraging IoT technology, we can enhance our understanding of the natural world, improve resource management, and develop sustainable practices to preserve and protect our environment for future generations. However, it's important...

Two sides of Europe: coal or RES – polluted and unpolluted Europe

The Balkan Peninsula is an area that has significant deposits of coal, especially lignite, known as brown coal. Serbia has the most extensive coal deposits in the Balkans and ranks high for...

CO2 emissions from EU territorial energy use: -2.8 percent

According to Eurostat estimates, in 2022, the EU carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuel combustion (oil and oil products, natural gas, coal and peat) for energy use in the EU territory...

ENERGY EFFICIENCY IS THE BEST WAY TO SAVE ENERGY

You surely remember how, a few years ago, we massively started replacing the classic incandescent light bulb with LED ones, with the former illuminating almost all homes and business premises in our...

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