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News • October 30, 2017

Roundup: Global Green Growth Week underscores unlocking Africa’s green growth potential

ADDIS ABABA, Oct. 19 (Xinhua) — Policy makers and experts, who have gathered in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa as part of the Global Green Growth Week 2017, emphasized the need to unlock Africa’s green growth potential. The Global Green Growth Week 2017, underway in Ethiopia’s capital under the theme “Unlocking Africa’s Green Growth Potential,” has […]

News • October 30, 2017

Can Index Insurance Make African Farmers Climate-resilient?

Panel discussion on innovating agriculture for climate and food security in Africa, during the Global Green Growth Week conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Credit: Wambi Michael/IPS ADDIS ABABA, Oct 20 2017 (IPS) – Index insurance is being promoted as a solution to protect climate affected smallholder farmers in Africa. This type of micro insurance is […]

News • October 30, 2017

African countries urged on green growth agenda

With African countries steadily working their way to transformation, environmentalists have again reiterated the need to take into account green growth—to avoid future climate catastrophes that might result from environmentally hazardous decision. Green growth is the means by which development can take shape without affecting the efficiency of natural resources. It is termed as the […]

News • October 13, 2017

Pakistan requires $40 bn to counter climate change: Mushahidullah

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Climate Change Senator Mushahidullah Khan on Tuesday said that Pakistan is bearing the brunt of climate change and the country needs around $40 billion to deal with issues arising from this phenomenon. In the past, the country had witnessed firsthand the extremes of climate change in the form of floods, droughts, sea intrusion […]

News • October 13, 2017

GGGI head tells Korea to focus on ‘cheap’ renewable energy

With increased interest in clean energy around the globe, now is the time for countries to jump into action, said the head of Global Green Growth Institute, a Seoul-based global organization on environmental-friendly development. Frank Rijsberman, the GGGI’s director-general, also urged Korea to focus on renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power. “(It’s […]

News • October 13, 2017

Renewable energy becoming cheapest energy, GGGI chief says

SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Yonhap) — Renewable energy sources like solar or wind power are rapidly becoming the cheapest form of energy thanks to recent technological developments, the chief of the Seoul-based Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) said Thursday, throwing his weight behind the South Korean government’s drive to go free of nuclear power. South Korea […]