https://www.bizcommunity.com/414/640.html East Africa news 15 Sustainable Development news - East Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/res/img/logo.gif https://www.bizcommunity.com/414/640.html en-us Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:13:04 +0200 https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/494/241749.html Ethiopia said on Sunday it had completed the fourth and final phase of filling a reservoir for its planned massive hydroelectric power plant on the Blue Nile, a project that Egypt and Sudan have long opposed. 1-241749 Mon, 11 Sep 2023 08:35:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Sustainable Development East Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/640/235611.html The saturation of environmental journalism - focused on the Paris Agreement, COP27 and associated topics - is resulting in construction professionals' apparent boredom when sustainability is raised. However, the vigorous campaigning, according to recent reports, is warranted, substantiated by increasing extreme weather events. 1-235611 Fri, 03 Feb 2023 09:07:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Sustainable Development East Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/1/494/234167.html In June 2022, a fire outbreak at a hospital construction site in Istanbul, Turkey, destroyed most of the newly installed medical and security devices, and injured three people. A few days later, firefighters from West Fargo in North Dakota attended a flaming construction site behind the town's Costco. And a month after that, a blaze broke out at a railway development in Stuttgart, Germany. 1-234167 Mon, 05 Dec 2022 12:17:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Sustainable Development East Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/1/640/233249.html Kenya has had to commit roughly 6% of its GDP to deal with the impacts of climate change - resources that could have been invested in other vital areas of development. 1-233249 Mon, 07 Nov 2022 13:30:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Sustainable Development East Africa https://www.bizcommunity.africa/Article/410/640/232834.html Persistently high temperatures and related heat stress are a big problem for people living in cities, especially in slums and informal settlements. It's a problem that is expected to continue. 1-232834 Tue, 25 Oct 2022 11:02:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Sustainable Development East Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/209/360/232167.html German-led engineering firm CPS is building the world's tallest green building - a 28-storey apartment tower designed in hybrid timber technology. Named Burj Zanzibar, the high-rise is designed to stand 96 metres tall and would be Africa's first sustainable high-rise. 1-232167 Tue, 04 Oct 2022 14:57:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Sustainable Development East Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/1/702/231624.html As investors in global cities, we have been using planetary-scale environmental geospatial data since 2019. We have been continuously investigating and mining datasets more commonly found in academic research - including those published by space agencies such as NASA - to tease out the key environmental risks of our investments. 1-231624 Fri, 16 Sep 2022 12:49:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Sustainable Development East Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/1/640/231437.html The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has approved Saint-Gobain's greenhouse gas emission reduction targets as consistent with the organisation's new net-zero standard and the Paris Climate Agreement. Committed to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050, Saint-Gobain is the first company in its sector worldwide to receive this approval since the introduction of the new standard at the end of last year. 1-231437 Mon, 12 Sep 2022 12:57:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Sustainable Development East Africa https://www.bizcommunity.africa/Article/410/640/229679.html The acceleration of technologies, including cloud, internet of things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI), is increasing the demand for data centres as part of the fourth industrial revolution. Africa alone needs 1,000MW and 700 facilities to meet growing demand, according to the Africa Data Centres Association. 1-229679 Thu, 14 Jul 2022 09:59:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Sustainable Development East Africa https://www.bizcommunity.africa/Article/410/700/226367.html By 2025, approximately 75-250 million Africans will lack access to freshwater. This startling statistic was shared by the World Resources Institute's vice president and regional director for Africa, Wanjira Mathai. She was speaking at the African Women Heads of State Initiative on Wednesday, 23 March, looking at solutions for a water-secure future on the continent. 1-226367 Fri, 25 Mar 2022 10:27:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Sustainable Development East Africa