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IRENA conference set to boost off-grid renewable energy development worldwide

Abu Dhabi, U.A.E — Key stakeholders from the off-grid renewable energy sector — including policy makers, the private sector, financiers, and development institutions — will gather in Nairobi, Kenya from…

5 Aug 2016 10:05AM

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A programme supporting emerging women small-scale farmers has been hit hard by the drought. Here a crop of peppers and tomatoes at a school farming scheme at Risenga Primary School, in Giyani, Limpopo province, wilts in the sun. Credit: Desmond Latham/IPS

Newly empowered black farmers ruined by South Africa’s drought

31 Jul 2016 8:37AM

SVG’s ‘Treelympics’ wins international award

16 Jun 2016 1:06PM

Digicel takes ‘Temperature’ to windward districts

9 Jun 2016 10:36AM

VINLEC to cut off Grenadine homes that don’t pay CWSA garbage fee

3 Jun 2016 2:53AM

Sea level rise threatens Raolo island in the Solomon Islands. (Credit: Catherine Wilson/IPS.)

Small island states urge rapid implementation of climate agreement

By Ahmed Sareer* Apr 21 (IPS) — The Paris Climate Change Treaty represents an historic step forward in the international effort to address the crisis. The Alliance of Small Island States…

22 Apr 2016 5:08AM

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