UNGA 81 Begins: Restoring Trust and Advancing Global Action The 81st Session of the United Nations General Assembly has opened in New York, setting the stage for critical discussions on peace, sustainable development, climate action, energy security and reform of the international system. The 81st Session of the United Nations General Assembly officially opened on […]
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Energy-access statistics often tell us how many homes are connected, how many stoves are distributed or how much renewable capacity is installed. Those numbers matter, but they do not tell us enough. They do not reveal whether women control or benefit from household energy, whether a clean stove is affordable enough to use every day, […]
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Ending energy poverty is not only a question of how much money is available. It is also a question of where that money goes, who can access it and whether communities have a meaningful voice in decisions that shape their future. This week’s research points to a persistent divide. Renewable-energy investment is growing, yet many […]
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Energy poverty is often described as the absence of an electricity connection. But having a wire connected to a home or business does not necessarily mean that people have the energy they need to live safely, work productively or build a secure future. Electricity may be available but unreliable. A household may be connected but […]
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Energy poverty is not simply the absence of electricity. It affects whether a child can study after dark, whether a health clinic can preserve medicine, whether clean water can be pumped, and whether a woman can safely build and operate a business. This week’s research confirms that although global energy access is improving, progress remains […]
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The UN HLPF’s SDG 7 session was less a debate about ambition than a test of delivery. Across the interventions, governments repeatedly returned to the same pressure points: electricity access, clean cooking, affordable finance, stronger infrastructure, and the practical partnerships needed to move from declarations to implementation. For the African & Caribbean Energy Network (ACEN), […]
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Angola’s offshore oil sector is experiencing a moment of renewed momentum. New investments are flowing in. Deepwater blocks are being developed. International operators — Azule Energy, TotalEnergies, ExxonMobil Angola, and others — are committing capital to one of the most technically demanding offshore environments in the world. But beneath the headlines about new exploration and […]
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Ask a Caribbean household what energy insecurity feels like and the answer is visceral: electricity bills that consume 20–30% of household income, diesel generators humming through blackouts, and the perpetual anxiety of knowing that a single hurricane can flatten the grid infrastructure a nation spent decades building. For Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS), energy […]
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Nigeria is home to more than 220 million people and the largest economy on the African continent. It is also home to an estimated 90 million people without reliable electricity — a figure that positions Nigeria as the single largest contributor to Africa’s energy access deficit. Understanding how Nigeria is responding to this challenge, and […]
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Southern Africa’s Energy Transition: South Africa, Zimbabwe & Zambia’s Path to Clean Power Southern Africa is one of the world’s most instructive — and most sobering — laboratories for the global energy transition. The sub-region holds the continent’s most industrialised economy, its most contested just transition programme, two of Africa’s most climate-stressed hydropower systems, and […]
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