Africa’s energy potential, especially renewable energy, is enormous, yet only a fraction of it is currently employed. Official projections indicate that demand for energy could also be around 30% higher than it is today over the next decade ipsnews.net/2024/04/africa…

PODCAST - Not only does school feeding allow once-hungry students to focus on learning, in many cases the schemes also help to improve nutrition & eating habits, ensure regular attendance & through buying ingredients locally, help to boost local economies ipsnews.buzzsprout.com/1796058/147598…

With a bolder policy & flexible payment mechanisms, perhaps Alexis Rodríguez would have opted for solar panels for his home, rather than relying on a portable generator to endure the frequent blackouts caused by Cuba’s recurrent energy crises ipsnews.net/2024/04/better…

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Plastic pollution in agriculture is a global problem that requires urgent action at every link in the production chain – from governments to farmers, plastics producers to grassroots users and consumers, warns Kaveh Zahedi, FAO Climate Change & Biodiversity ipsnews.net/2024/04/urgent…

Solar Power and Biogas Empower Women Farmers in Brazil ipsnews.net/2024/04/solar-…

Bringing crops and meat from field to fork accounts for 10 million tonnes of plastic every year, followed by fisheries and aquaculture with 2.1 million tonnes and forestry with 0.2 million tonnes, according to Food and Agriculture Organization estimates ipsnews.net/2024/04/urgent…

The energy transition is accelerating rapidly, but it clearly remains off track, with an unacceptable uneven distribution of renewable growth that still disproportionately affects the Global South, says Francesco La Camera, IRENA ipsnews.net/2024/04/africa…

Africa’s energy potential, especially renewable energy, is enormous, yet only a fraction of it is currently employed. Official projections indicate that demand for energy could also be around 30% higher than it is today over the next decade ipsnews.net/2024/04/africa…

Education in Brazil operates both as a factor of social ascent and, at the same time, of inequality. Around 20% of students from the higher income sectors attend private schools. In higher education, the situation is paradoxically reversed ipsnews.net/2024/04/second…

About 95% of Cuba’s electricity relies on fossil fuels, including domestic natural, offshore oil rigs leased from Turkey, diesel & fuel oil generators. The government aims for renewables to reach 30% of electricity generation by 2030 ipsnews.net/2024/04/better…

IPS tracks progress & obstacles in the effort toward the #SDGs . Check out the latest issue of our newsletter: Will a Two-State Solution include Palestine as a UN Member State?; Solar Power and Biogas Empower Women Farmers in Brazil; and more ow.ly/7bgF50Rmlfl

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I am humbled to be selected as one of IPS's Climate Justice Fellows and will be learning and reporting on issues that matter to our existence-Climate Justice! Inter Press Service Inter Press Service Cecilia Russell
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Kirinyaga University Kirinyaga University may have just breathed new life into Kenya’s ailing cotton industry as varsity dons develop a portable cotton ginnery ipsnews.net/2024/04/portab…

Could economist Rebeca Grynspan become the next UN Secretary-General? Here is our assessment of her advantages and disadvantages should she choose to enter her name into the contest, ✍️ felix dodds & Chris Spence ipsnews.net/2024/04/lead-u…

Bringing crops and meat from field to fork accounts for 10 million tonnes of plastic every year, followed by fisheries and aquaculture with 2.1 million tonnes and forestry with 0.2 million tonnes, according to Food and Agriculture Organization estimates ipsnews.net/2024/04/urgent…

The energy transition is accelerating rapidly, but it clearly remains off track, with an unacceptable uneven distribution of renewable growth that still disproportionately affects the Global South, says Francesco La Camera, IRENA ipsnews.net/2024/04/africa…

Africa’s energy potential, especially renewable energy, is enormous, yet only a fraction of it is currently employed. Official projections indicate that demand for energy could also be around 30% higher than it is today over the next decade ipsnews.net/2024/04/africa…

Education in Brazil operates both as a factor of social ascent and, at the same time, of inequality. Around 20% of students from the higher income sectors attend private schools. In higher education, the situation is paradoxically reversed ipsnews.net/2024/04/second…