After multiple delays, and the building up of a twisted reality television-like suspense, Donald Trump has finally announced that he will take America out of the Paris Climate Agreement. Among all the fluster of his presidency, this may be one of Trump’s most consequential decisions, and the one with the most long-lasting negative, if not […]
Alex Lenferna
Dr Alex Lenferna serves as South Africa Climate Justice Campaigner with 350 Africa.org. He is a former Mandela Rhodes and Fulbright Scholar with a PhD on climate justice from the University of Washington. He is a first generation South African whose family hails from the small island nation of Mauritius.
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Is Eskom trying to lock us in? If so, we need to break free
A stunning new study recently came out from the Centre for Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR). It demonstrated that by far the lowest cost option for providing energy to South Africa is to pursue a renewable energy future. This bright new reality, created by the rapid progress in clean energy technologies, provides “sun-drenched and wind-rich” South […]
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Why Africa doesn’t need Bjorn Lomborg’s fossil fuel PR
“Revolutions are, as a rule, rare and momentous processes”, but across the African continent the potential for a clean energy revolution which upsets and leapfrogs the old fossil fuel order is ripe. Globally, clean energy technology has developed at such a rapid pace that a predominately clean energy future which brings energy access to all […]