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Africa is not an anthropological museum for Western virtue, and the energy “leapfrogging” myth is a neo-colonial fable dressed in technobabble. Africa should climb the same energy ladder that raised the West out of an...

Those that aspire to net-zero are condemning Africa to extreme poverty. Those that promote African access to fossil fuels, want Africans to have the chance to rise up. 

The country wants to cut greenhouse gas emissions without destroying livelihoods, but progress is slow – and the residents of a small town are in the crosshairs

Markets Insider By Jo Nova Price fixing kills the cocoa farm There has been a wicked price spike in cocoa beans which the usual suspects are blaming on “climate change” as if your air conditioner was ruining cocoa...

Al Gore recently announced that he is refocusing his climate and energy efforts from the United States to the international arena, especially Africa. Like President Obama, he wants Africa to “leapfrog dirty fossil fuels”...

“It’s a paternalistic post-colonial attitude that I just can’t stand,” Wright said of the climate evangelism that sought to force others to abandon fossil fuels and adopt largely useless technologies like solar and...

The US president is making energy deals with Japan and Ukraine, and in Africa has even touted resurrecting coal

From Europe to Africa and South America, countries reaffirm commitment to tackle crisis

From Europe to Canada, Africa, China and Brazil, most countries appear to have doubled down on their commitment to tackle crisis

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Women with little formal education trained to become solar technicians, transforming villages and tackling patriarchal norms

Dave Lewis says the near-constant stream of clean electricity could supply the grid as early as 2030

Vast human-made Lake Kariba is at near-record low, causing daily power cuts and devastating two African economies

European colonialism that methodically extracted wealth from Africa until the system’s collapse in the last century has been replaced by a climate colonialism that stifles the economic development that the Dark Continent...

...it might behoove the AP to do some simple fact checking (it takes just a few minutes through the magic of the internet), looking at existing hard data on trends before promoting economic analyses from organizations without...