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Legacy energy infrastructure: The hidden threat to our climate

Legacy energy infrastructure: The hidden threat to our climate

Vladimir Milovanovic 9 Dec 2021

We can't afford to just build greener. We must build less

We can't afford to just build greener. We must build less

Johannes Novy 11 Nov 2021

We mapped every large solar plant on the planet using satellites and machine learning

We mapped every large solar plant on the planet using satellites and machine learning

Lucas Kruitwagen 2 Nov 2021

Cities and climate change: why low-rise buildings are the future - not skyscrapers

Cities and climate change: why low-rise buildings are the future - not skyscrapers

Ruth Saint and Francesco Pomponi 28 Oct 2021

2021 Innovation Award for Sustainable Food Systems winners announced

2021 Innovation Award for Sustainable Food Systems winners announced

4 Oct 2021

Senegal: Boosting the role of women in the energy sector

Senegal: Boosting the role of women in the energy sector

29 Sep 2021

Nesta Challenges launches CA$14,5m Afri-Plastics Challenge

Nesta Challenges launches CA$14,5m Afri-Plastics Challenge

3 Aug 2021

Cities urged to build upwards but ditch skyscraper obsession

Cities urged to build upwards but ditch skyscraper obsession

Umberto Bacchi 3 Jun 2021

Solar minibuses for Africa? Data seen as key to green transport switch

Solar minibuses for Africa? Data seen as key to green transport switch

Megan Rowling 14 May 2021

Post-Covid-19: A chance to leapfrog Africa's development through digitalisation

Post-Covid-19: A chance to leapfrog Africa's development through digitalisation

Cristina Duarte 16 Mar 2021

How new design patterns can enable cities and their residents to change with climate change

How new design patterns can enable cities and their residents to change with climate change

Cameron Tonkinwise and Abby Mellick Lopes 24 Feb 2021

Registration for Elon Musk's $100m carbon capture competition opens April

Registration for Elon Musk's $100m carbon capture competition opens April

17 Feb 2021

Bendable concrete and other CO2-infused cement mixes could dramatically cut global emissions

Bendable concrete and other CO2-infused cement mixes could dramatically cut global emissions

Lucca Henrion, Duo Zhang, Victor C. Li, Volker Sick 17 Feb 2021

Winners of Space-Tech Earth Observation Innovation Challenge announced

Winners of Space-Tech Earth Observation Innovation Challenge announced

15 Feb 2021

Ghana's unstable building problem is about more than lax regulation

Ghana's unstable building problem is about more than lax regulation

Festival Godwin Boateng 25 Jan 2021

Green buildings can bring fresh air to design, but they can also bring pests

Green buildings can bring fresh air to design, but they can also bring pests

Norman Day 4 Jan 2021

AfDB approves funding for mini-grid advancement in Africa

AfDB approves funding for mini-grid advancement in Africa

31 Dec 2020

Grid or solar: looking for the best energy solution for the rural poor

Grid or solar: looking for the best energy solution for the rural poor

Jörg Peters and Maximiliane Sievert 30 Dec 2020

AfDB approves Desert-to-Power technical support programme

AfDB approves Desert-to-Power technical support programme

28 Dec 2020

World Architecture Festival announces winner of Grohe Water Research Prize

World Architecture Festival announces winner of Grohe Water Research Prize

3 Dec 2020

How digital engineering can help the construction sector meet its decarbonisation targets

How digital engineering can help the construction sector meet its decarbonisation targets

2 Dec 2020

Time for Africa to stop managing poverty and start managing development

Time for Africa to stop managing poverty and start managing development

13 Nov 2020

A third of our waste comes from buildings. This one's designed for reuse and cuts emissions by 88%

A third of our waste comes from buildings. This one's designed for reuse and cuts emissions by 88%

Roberto Minunno, Greg Morrison, Richard L. Gruner, Timothy Michael O'Grady 12 Nov 2020

Sustainable urbanisation the focus this World Cities Day

Sustainable urbanisation the focus this World Cities Day

30 Oct 2020

Covid-19 will not change cities in long term - Norman Foster

Covid-19 will not change cities in long term - Norman Foster

26 Oct 2020

Digital democracy is still a long way off in Africa: it takes more than technology

Digital democracy is still a long way off in Africa: it takes more than technology

Nic Cheeseman and Lisa Garbe 2 Oct 2020

FAO launches Green Cities Initiative to help transform agri-food systems

FAO launches Green Cities Initiative to help transform agri-food systems

23 Sep 2020

Africa's high density urban settlements: cut the red tape and slash the cost of housing

Africa's high density urban settlements: cut the red tape and slash the cost of housing

Astrid R.N. Haas and Victoria Delbridge 4 Aug 2020

Vera Songwe, executive secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)

Aftermath of Covid-19 requires Africa to be bold in its path to recovery

19 Jun 2020

3 ways blockchain could get the world to act against the climate crisis

3 ways blockchain could get the world to act against the climate crisis

Bernhard Reinsberg 12 Jun 2020