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Stockholm +50 event brings government, business, finance and civil society together to discuss how to finance nature protection and restoration Action to drive the recovery of the global economy and bolster food security worldwide by protecting and restoring nature will be set out today by government ministers, CEOs and civil society leaders at a major multinational summit being held…

The New and Renewable Energy Authority (NREA) revealed that 5,200 square kilometer (sqkm) were allocated to establish renewable energy projects, either by public or private sector companies. The lands allocated for the projects are sufficient to produce 60,000 megawatts. The NREA seeks to utilize the allocated lands before launching new projects. The timeframe for these…

TASHKENT — The World Bank Board of Executive Directors has approved a $142 million concessional credit for Uzbekistan. The financing will support a project that aims to increase the area under sustainable landscape management, restore degraded forested lands in various regions of the country, and promote Uzbekistan’s collaboration with other Central Asian countries on transboundary landscape…

Germany is keen to ditch Russian oil and gas for good and find new sources of energy, while Africa has abundant fuel reserves. The German-Africa Energy Forum is helping delegates develop mutually beneficial partnerships. One of the big topics of conversation at the 2022 German-Africa Energy Forum in Hamburg was Africa's abundant reserves of oil and gas. In 2017, the…

The world may gain an estimated $78 trillion over coming decades by making this energy transition. International negotiators can’t agree on how to phase out coal, in part because of opposition to carbon taxes, and now even countries that had been able to abandon the fuel are reversing that progress as the war in Ukraine raises energy prices. The most common concern about…

Ripple effects from the war in Ukraine have generated a severe cost-of-living crisis which no country or community can escape, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Wednesday at a press conference to launch the latest report on the conflict’s impacts on food security, energy, and financing. An estimated 1.6 billion people in 94 countries are exposed to at least one dimension…