The Emerging Markets Climate Action Fund invests $25 million and EIB Global invests $75 million in Alcazar Energy Partners II. The fund will finance renewable energy projects in the Middle East, North Africa, Eastern Europe and Central Asia. This joint commitment of EMCAF and EIB Global will support the development of onshore wind and solar […]
COP27: 12-month plan launched to boost green technologies to fight climate change – EQ Mag
New Delhi : Countries representing over half of the global GDP, including India and the US, on Friday set out a 12-month action plan at the UN climate summit in Egypt to help make clean technologies cheaper and more accessible everywhere to fight climate change. The UNFCCC said the plan includes 25 sector-specific “priority actions” […]
AIIB Commits USD300 Million to ETAF at COP27 to Further Support Energy Transition – EQ Mag Pro
Three new partners have officially joined the Energy Transition Accelerator Financing Platform (ETAF), IRENA’s global climate finance program aimed at mobilizing capital to scale up renewable project funding in developing countries by 2030. Cooperation agreements with the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), Masdar and Swiss Re were signed on-site at the UN Climate Change Conference […]
COP27: India, China on track to overachieve 2030 UN climate targets – EQ Mag Pro
The analysis on India and China’s electricity sector highlights how renewable energy is slowly replacing fossils With the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) underway in the backdrop of a year when extreme climate events demonstrated again the urgency to curb greenhouse gas emissions, leading economies of India and China are on track to overachieve […]
Hydrogen quarterly insight – November 2022 – EQ Mag Pro
This is Stephenson Harwood’s fifth hydrogen quarterly insight, which is aimed at providing you with legal updates relevant to the industry and bringing you up to speed on some of the most exciting hydrogen developments in a number of key sectors. For many UK hydrogen companies, the last number of months were extremely busy finalising […]
New Roadmap Provides Path to Rapidly and Equitably Scaling Global Solar Investment and Deployment – EQ Mag Pro
Today at COP27, World Resources Institute (WRI), the International Solar Alliance (ISA), and Bloomberg Philanthropies launched Our Solar Future: Roadmap to Mobilize USD 1 Trillion by 2030 to help meet the urgent need for a massive and more equitable scale-up of investment in solar energy. Our Solar Future outlines priority actions by governments, development finance […]
STATEMENT: Forest and Climate Leaders’ Partnership and Forest-Related Funding at COP27 – EQ Mag Pro
SHARM EL-SHEIKH : Today at the UN climate negotiations in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, leaders from 26 countries and the European Union launched the Forests and Climate Leaders’ Partnership (FCLP) to fulfill the historic pledge made at COP26 in Glasgow to halt and reverse forest loss and land degradation by 2030. The FCLP, to be […]
COP27 and the climate change impacts of Russia’s war with Ukraine – EQ Mag Pro
“Russia’s unprovoked attack on Ukraine has major direct, indirect, and induced impacts on global warming. Every missile or shot fired by Russia results in the release of unnecessary greenhouse gas emissions. All war is unnecessary, and all war has major local and global negative environmental impacts.” John R. Bryson, Professor of Enterprise and Economic Geography, […]
SungrowAdvances Egypt’s Sustainable Development Goals with Alignment of Conference of the Parties (COP27) Sharm El-Sheikh Egypt 2022 – EQ Mag Pro
SungrowAdvances Egypt’s Sustainable Development Goals with Alignment of Conference of the Parties (COP27) Sharm El-Sheikh Egypt 2022 Upon the arrival of the 27th Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (COP 27) in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, Sungrow, the global leading inverter and energy storage supplier for renewables, in cooperation with the official distributor Arab Consulting […]
COP27: Who is paying for climate change loss and damage? – EQ Mag Pro
Global warming is leading to ever more extreme natural events and more damage. Countries in the Global South are demanding compensation for climate change they say wealthier nations, like Germany, caused. Eric Njuguna is angry. The 20-year-old environmental activist is witnessing the devastating changes a warming planet is bringing to Kenya. People are losing their […]