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DMEA: Zimbabwe's Maswera invests in LPG
Russian oligarch to revive woolly mammoths in a real life Jurassic Park to stop Siberian permafrost melting
Russian billionaire chemicals oligarch Andrey Melnichenko has a plan to resuscitate prehistoric woolly mammoths to the frozen wastes of Siberia and Yakutia to stop the permafrost melting, which would be a climate catastrophe.
AsianOil: Japan’s JERA gets the OK on LNG stockpiling plan
EurOil: BP's long search for a new CEO continues
FSUOGM: Turkmenistan joins Global Methane Pledge at COP28
MEOG: Jordan considers its gas options
Uzbekistan still studying nuclear power plant tech of various countries, says energy minister
COP28 talks to save the planet could fall at first fence as oil producers and some rich countries call only for “phase down” of fossil fuels.
The COP28 talks in Dubai to save the planet from a climate catastrophe look like they are going to fall at the first fence as the oil lobby and some big economies push for a “phasing down” of fossil fuels, rather than the “phasing out”.
AfrElec: CAR’s second solar photovoltaic power plant inaugurated
IMF: World needs more policy ambition, private funds, and innovation to meet climate goals
International cooperation is more important than ever because no country can address climate change by itself.
COP28: Turkmenistan joins Global Methane Pledge
Country’s president announces in Dubai that Turkmens will join world effort to seal “super-emitter” sites. Planet-heating gas pours out of remote Central Asian nation at alarming rate.
ING: Consumer not ready to change what they eat to help the environment
By wasting less food and eating less meat and dairy, consumers can help to slow down climate change. However, consumers in the EU have barely changed their diets.
South Africa’s bid to tackle energy crisis starts bearing fruit, senior emerging markets economist says
The intensification of load shedding has brought growth in South Africa’s economy to a halt in 2023, but there finally appears to be some light at the end of the tunnel, says Jason Tuvey of Capital Economics.
Global climate plans still fall short
Ahead of the Cop28 climate summit beginning on November 30 in Dubai, Sultan Al Jaber, the Cop28 president-designate has said that he believes an "unprecedented outcome" is still on the cards – keeping alive hopes something will happen.
COP28: Cities in the face of the rising tide
By 2050 an estimated 1bn people globally will be living in coastal areas, which are already threatened by rising tides.
COP28: Turkey assessed as “critically insufficient” on all climate crisis goals by scientific analysis
Researcher concludes that country “has set an emission target that it can almost achieve without any serious action”.
COMMENT: China will drive a hard bargain for Russian gas
China would like more Russian gas. But it does not need it urgently, and will make Moscow pay for the privilege.
Zimbabwe's oil infrastructure company NOIC finishes building 650-tonne LPG storage terminal
World Bank consents to legal separation of South Africa power utility Eskom’s transmission division
World Bank has granted its consent to the proposed legal separation of the Transmission Division from South Africa's state-owned power utility Eskom to the National Transmission Company South Africa.
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