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Pedestrians walk outside the Safaricom mobile phone customer care centre during the launch of its 5G internet service in the central business district of Nairobi, Kenya, 27 October 2022. Reuters/Monicah Mwangi/File Photo

Kenya's Safaricom raises $117m with local sustainability-linked loan

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Kenya’s devastating floods expose decades of poor urban planning and bad land management

By Sean Avery 6 May 2024

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The world needs hundreds of thousands more offshore wind turbines - where will they all go?

By Hugo Putuhena, Fraser Sturt and Susan Gourvenec 7 Jul 2023

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SBTi approves Saint-Gobain's 2050 emission reduction targets

SBTi approves Saint-Gobain's 2050 emission reduction targets

12 Sep 2022

Kenyan electricity producer KenGen adds 86MW to grid from geothermal plant

Kenyan electricity producer KenGen adds 86MW to grid from geothermal plant

27 Jul 2022

Renewable energy continued to grow, gain momentum in 2021

Renewable energy continued to grow, gain momentum in 2021

4 May 2022

$5.7tn investment in energy transition needed per year until 2030 - Irena outlook

$5.7tn investment in energy transition needed per year until 2030 - Irena outlook

29 Mar 2022

Biofuel: How new microalgae technologies can hasten the end of our reliance on oil

Biofuel: How new microalgae technologies can hasten the end of our reliance on oil

Callum Russell 29 Mar 2022

Anglo American reduces emissions by 10% in sea trial using biofuel, VLSFO blend

Anglo American reduces emissions by 10% in sea trial using biofuel, VLSFO blend

17 Mar 2022

How Africa can adopt renewable energy on a massive scale and save billions along the way

How Africa can adopt renewable energy on a massive scale and save billions along the way

Kenneth Engblom 15 Mar 2022

Future cities could be 3D printed - using concrete made with recycled glass

Future cities could be 3D printed - using concrete made with recycled glass

Seyed Ghaffar, Mehdi Chougan, Pawel Sikora 2 Mar 2022

Green buildings can boost productivity, wellbeing and health of workers

Green buildings can boost productivity, wellbeing and health of workers

Md Sazan Rahman 3 Feb 2022

An energy revolution is possible - but only if leaders get imaginative about how to fund it

An energy revolution is possible - but only if leaders get imaginative about how to fund it

Michael Grubb 20 Jan 2022

Legacy energy infrastructure: The hidden threat to our climate

Legacy energy infrastructure: The hidden threat to our climate

Vladimir Milovanovic 9 Dec 2021

We can't afford to just build greener. We must build less

We can't afford to just build greener. We must build less

Johannes Novy 11 Nov 2021

We mapped every large solar plant on the planet using satellites and machine learning

We mapped every large solar plant on the planet using satellites and machine learning

Lucas Kruitwagen 2 Nov 2021

Cities and climate change: why low-rise buildings are the future - not skyscrapers

Cities and climate change: why low-rise buildings are the future - not skyscrapers

Ruth Saint and Francesco Pomponi 28 Oct 2021

2021 Innovation Award for Sustainable Food Systems winners announced

2021 Innovation Award for Sustainable Food Systems winners announced

4 Oct 2021

Can Kenya learn from global floods?

Can Kenya learn from global floods?

Simon Thomas 18 Aug 2021

Nesta Challenges launches CA$14,5m Afri-Plastics Challenge

Nesta Challenges launches CA$14,5m Afri-Plastics Challenge

3 Aug 2021

Cities urged to build upwards but ditch skyscraper obsession

Cities urged to build upwards but ditch skyscraper obsession

Umberto Bacchi 3 Jun 2021

Solar minibuses for Africa? Data seen as key to green transport switch

Solar minibuses for Africa? Data seen as key to green transport switch

Megan Rowling 14 May 2021

Post-Covid-19: A chance to leapfrog Africa's development through digitalisation

Post-Covid-19: A chance to leapfrog Africa's development through digitalisation

Cristina Duarte 16 Mar 2021

How new design patterns can enable cities and their residents to change with climate change

How new design patterns can enable cities and their residents to change with climate change

Cameron Tonkinwise and Abby Mellick Lopes 24 Feb 2021

Registration for Elon Musk's $100m carbon capture competition opens April

Registration for Elon Musk's $100m carbon capture competition opens April

17 Feb 2021

Bendable concrete and other CO2-infused cement mixes could dramatically cut global emissions

Bendable concrete and other CO2-infused cement mixes could dramatically cut global emissions

Lucca Henrion, Duo Zhang, Victor C. Li, Volker Sick 17 Feb 2021

Kenya's Nzambi Matee recycles plastic to make bricks stronger than concrete

Kenya's Nzambi Matee recycles plastic to make bricks stronger than concrete

16 Feb 2021

Green buildings can bring fresh air to design, but they can also bring pests

Green buildings can bring fresh air to design, but they can also bring pests

Norman Day 4 Jan 2021

AfDB approves funding for mini-grid advancement in Africa

AfDB approves funding for mini-grid advancement in Africa

31 Dec 2020

Grid or solar: looking for the best energy solution for the rural poor

Grid or solar: looking for the best energy solution for the rural poor

Jörg Peters and Maximiliane Sievert 30 Dec 2020

AfDB approves Desert-to-Power technical support programme

AfDB approves Desert-to-Power technical support programme

28 Dec 2020

World Architecture Festival announces winner of Grohe Water Research Prize

World Architecture Festival announces winner of Grohe Water Research Prize

3 Dec 2020

How digital engineering can help the construction sector meet its decarbonisation targets

How digital engineering can help the construction sector meet its decarbonisation targets

2 Dec 2020

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SBTi approves Saint-Gobain's 2050 emission reduction targets

SBTi approves Saint-Gobain's 2050 emission reduction targets

12 Sep 2022

Kenyan electricity producer KenGen adds 86MW to grid from geothermal plant

Kenyan electricity producer KenGen adds 86MW to grid from geothermal plant

27 Jul 2022

Renewable energy continued to grow, gain momentum in 2021

Renewable energy continued to grow, gain momentum in 2021

4 May 2022

$5.7tn investment in energy transition needed per year until 2030 - Irena outlook

$5.7tn investment in energy transition needed per year until 2030 - Irena outlook

29 Mar 2022

Biofuel: How new microalgae technologies can hasten the end of our reliance on oil

Biofuel: How new microalgae technologies can hasten the end of our reliance on oil

Callum Russell 29 Mar 2022

Anglo American reduces emissions by 10% in sea trial using biofuel, VLSFO blend

Anglo American reduces emissions by 10% in sea trial using biofuel, VLSFO blend

17 Mar 2022

How Africa can adopt renewable energy on a massive scale and save billions along the way

How Africa can adopt renewable energy on a massive scale and save billions along the way

Kenneth Engblom 15 Mar 2022

Future cities could be 3D printed - using concrete made with recycled glass

Future cities could be 3D printed - using concrete made with recycled glass

Seyed Ghaffar, Mehdi Chougan, Pawel Sikora 2 Mar 2022

Green buildings can boost productivity, wellbeing and health of workers

Green buildings can boost productivity, wellbeing and health of workers

Md Sazan Rahman 3 Feb 2022

An energy revolution is possible - but only if leaders get imaginative about how to fund it

An energy revolution is possible - but only if leaders get imaginative about how to fund it

Michael Grubb 20 Jan 2022

Legacy energy infrastructure: The hidden threat to our climate

Legacy energy infrastructure: The hidden threat to our climate

Vladimir Milovanovic 9 Dec 2021

We can't afford to just build greener. We must build less

We can't afford to just build greener. We must build less

Johannes Novy 11 Nov 2021

We mapped every large solar plant on the planet using satellites and machine learning

We mapped every large solar plant on the planet using satellites and machine learning

Lucas Kruitwagen 2 Nov 2021

Cities and climate change: why low-rise buildings are the future - not skyscrapers

Cities and climate change: why low-rise buildings are the future - not skyscrapers

Ruth Saint and Francesco Pomponi 28 Oct 2021

2021 Innovation Award for Sustainable Food Systems winners announced

2021 Innovation Award for Sustainable Food Systems winners announced

4 Oct 2021

Can Kenya learn from global floods?

Can Kenya learn from global floods?

Simon Thomas 18 Aug 2021

Nesta Challenges launches CA$14,5m Afri-Plastics Challenge

Nesta Challenges launches CA$14,5m Afri-Plastics Challenge

3 Aug 2021

Cities urged to build upwards but ditch skyscraper obsession

Cities urged to build upwards but ditch skyscraper obsession

Umberto Bacchi 3 Jun 2021

Solar minibuses for Africa? Data seen as key to green transport switch

Solar minibuses for Africa? Data seen as key to green transport switch

Megan Rowling 14 May 2021

Post-Covid-19: A chance to leapfrog Africa's development through digitalisation

Post-Covid-19: A chance to leapfrog Africa's development through digitalisation

Cristina Duarte 16 Mar 2021

How new design patterns can enable cities and their residents to change with climate change

How new design patterns can enable cities and their residents to change with climate change

Cameron Tonkinwise and Abby Mellick Lopes 24 Feb 2021

Registration for Elon Musk's $100m carbon capture competition opens April

Registration for Elon Musk's $100m carbon capture competition opens April

17 Feb 2021

Bendable concrete and other CO2-infused cement mixes could dramatically cut global emissions

Bendable concrete and other CO2-infused cement mixes could dramatically cut global emissions

Lucca Henrion, Duo Zhang, Victor C. Li, Volker Sick 17 Feb 2021

Kenya's Nzambi Matee recycles plastic to make bricks stronger than concrete

Kenya's Nzambi Matee recycles plastic to make bricks stronger than concrete

16 Feb 2021

Green buildings can bring fresh air to design, but they can also bring pests

Green buildings can bring fresh air to design, but they can also bring pests

Norman Day 4 Jan 2021

AfDB approves funding for mini-grid advancement in Africa

AfDB approves funding for mini-grid advancement in Africa

31 Dec 2020

Grid or solar: looking for the best energy solution for the rural poor

Grid or solar: looking for the best energy solution for the rural poor

Jörg Peters and Maximiliane Sievert 30 Dec 2020

AfDB approves Desert-to-Power technical support programme

AfDB approves Desert-to-Power technical support programme

28 Dec 2020

World Architecture Festival announces winner of Grohe Water Research Prize

World Architecture Festival announces winner of Grohe Water Research Prize

3 Dec 2020

How digital engineering can help the construction sector meet its decarbonisation targets

How digital engineering can help the construction sector meet its decarbonisation targets

2 Dec 2020

Time for Africa to stop managing poverty and start managing development

Time for Africa to stop managing poverty and start managing development

13 Nov 2020

A third of our waste comes from buildings. This one's designed for reuse and cuts emissions by 88%

A third of our waste comes from buildings. This one's designed for reuse and cuts emissions by 88%

Roberto Minunno, Greg Morrison, Richard L. Gruner, Timothy Michael O'Grady 12 Nov 2020

Sustainable urbanisation the focus this World Cities Day

Sustainable urbanisation the focus this World Cities Day

30 Oct 2020

Covid-19 will not change cities in long term - Norman Foster

Covid-19 will not change cities in long term - Norman Foster

26 Oct 2020

Digital democracy is still a long way off in Africa: it takes more than technology

Digital democracy is still a long way off in Africa: it takes more than technology

Nic Cheeseman and Lisa Garbe 2 Oct 2020

Nairobi's Runda-based SABIS International School sets green building precedent

Nairobi's Runda-based SABIS International School sets green building precedent

30 Sep 2020

FAO launches Green Cities Initiative to help transform agri-food systems

FAO launches Green Cities Initiative to help transform agri-food systems

23 Sep 2020

Africa's high density urban settlements: cut the red tape and slash the cost of housing

Africa's high density urban settlements: cut the red tape and slash the cost of housing

Astrid R.N. Haas and Victoria Delbridge 4 Aug 2020

Kenya's internet balloons could help to bridge the digital divide

Kenya's internet balloons could help to bridge the digital divide

Nixon Muganda 20 Jul 2020

Vera Songwe, executive secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)

Aftermath of Covid-19 requires Africa to be bold in its path to recovery

19 Jun 2020