Solid piece in The Reporter by Ashenafi Endale on the latest wave of unrest to hit #Ethiopia
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Carbon Brief experts explain some of the factors in addition to global warming that are driving current high Atlantic Ocean temperatures, including the heating caused by reducing air pollution from ships' sulphur emissions...
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How can progressive politics persuade globally influential West-based media and their home audiences to show far more proportionate concern for the tragic deaths of e.g. 3 people in Nottingham, 5 in the Atlantic Ocean, 100s in the Mediterranean, and 100,000s in a war in Ethiopia?

Great report from Antony Sguazzin and Paul Burkhardt on how a dysfunctional state utility and the political importance of the coal industry derailed a grand West-backed energy transition scheme in South Africa.
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Headline says it all. Crisis Group digs into the realities, policies, and practicalities of this hot topic.

With our past, Jane Esberg, and present, Alessandro Accorsi, social media experts, who are part of the Future of Conflict Program.

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Potentially important for energy policy.

Lazard makes the most influential efforts to compare costs of all types of electricity production.

For first time, its annual report estimates costs of filling in for the intermittency inherent to wind & solar.

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Fascinating, bullish piece by energy systems engineer Jesse D. Jenkins for Mother Jones on U.S.'s eye-watering decarbonisation challenge.

No room here to dig into permitting issues, which will also play big part in this IRA-fuelled infrastructure build-out.
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Alan and the Crisis Group team on the equally depressing and devastating events in #Sudan
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The reports out of Khartoum #Sudan are beyond harrowing. This is far more than violent clashes, this is the full blown collapse of a city and humanitarian disaster that is worsening at a sickening pace.

New Crisis Group publication on the impact of drought in Kenya's Rift Valley by Nazanine Moshiri and team
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For Crisis Group I spoke at a US Holocaust Museum event with three Ethiopian co-panellists about ongoing atrocity risks and how to try and ease the underlying political disputes in Ethiopia.
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For JusticeInfo.net, Julia Crawford takes a look at transitional justice prospects in Ethiopia.
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Policy brief for a recent technical study about how the #GERD , #Ethiopia 's clean energy behemoth taking shape on the Blue Nile, can be managed in a manner that also suits the economic interests of the downstream Nile countries, #Sudan and #Egypt .
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