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Egypt climate envoy sees international funds helping developing industries decarbonise

Egypt climate envoy sees international funds helping developing industries decarbonise

A financing scheme that draws on funding from Western donors to help developing countries shift to cleaner power generation could be mirrored for heavy industries and other hard-to-abate sectors, Egypt's climate champion said. Extending a Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) structure to sectors including steel, aluminium, cement and fertilisers made sense because of new European Union rules that would otherwise penalise developing world exporters, U.N. Climate Change High-Level Champion Mahmoud Mohieldin said in an interview. The rules, under the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), would have "serious implications" for countries exporting to Europe, said Mohieldin. "I'm checking countries including…
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Can SA provide a template for Africa’s just energy transition?

Can SA provide a template for Africa’s just energy transition?

SETH ONYANGO, BIRD STORY AGENCY AT the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow last year, climate experts demonstrated how Africa can contribute to global emission reduction owing to its massive green energy potential. A chorus of how the continent could benefit from the dynamics of the global energy transition reverberated throughout the 12-day conference. But unlike the previous forums where rich nations only paid lip service to Africa's bid to decarbonise, the aforementioned states pledged financial incentives to the vision, starting with South Africa which is still dependent on coal. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the meeting in Glasgow that…
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Africa’s $16 trillion race to de-carbonise

Africa’s $16 trillion race to de-carbonise

SETH ONYANGO, BIRD SOUTH Africa, Ethiopia, Egypt, Morocco and Kenya are building clean energy economies that could rake in billions of dollars in investment over the next decade. All have ramped up investments in renewable energy infrastructure to decarbonise their industries and run their economies with clean fuel. Some smaller states have also set ambitious energy transition targets from fossils, such as Rwanda’s target of generating 60 per cent renewable energy by 2030. Data show there is a huge incentive to decarbonise. In June last year, finance giant, Goldman Sachs projected that spending for renewable power projects in 2021, will…
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