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Last December, the European Union announced its green deal of €1tr to turn the European Union into a climate neutral economy by 2050, which means it will reduce carbon emissions and rely on renewables.
The European Union's financial arm, the (...)
Journalists from 28 African countries were invited to tour Morocco recently by the organising committee of the 22nd session of the Conference of the Parties (COP22) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which will be held next (...)
Preparations for the 22nd session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 22) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change are underway in Marrakech, Morocco, two months ahead of the gathering on 7-18 November.
There are activities in several (...)
In December, the first plant of a gigantic thermal solar power complex on the edge of the Sahara will go online. But this does not fulfill a former dream of exporting such power to Europe – which is still a long way off.
Bold plans to use desert sun (...)
On my recent visit to the Indian capital, Delhi, we were driving down a quiet street when I saw groups of Indians, most seeming to belong to a single family, arrange themselves in a queue in front of a small villa. The villa was set in the middle of (...)
Organizers of the Marrakesh Film Festival have announced that American director Martin Scorsese will lead the jury of the festival in its 13th edition, set to take place from November 29th to December 7th, 2013 in Marrakesh, Morocco.
"I'm very happy (...)
The US $7.6 billion Climate Investment Funds (CIF) today gave the go-ahead to Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia to proceed with an updated version of a sweeping plan to create an unprecedented 1,120 megawatts (MW) of energy from (...)
The African Development Bank has approved $800 million in loans to Morocco to support renewable energy programs, the bank said on its website last week.
The loans will help Morocco develop a concentrated solar power (CSP) plant at the town of (...)
Morocco has eliminated a group led by Egypt-based Orascom Construction Industries from four consortia it had preselected to develop the first phase of a solar energy project, l'Economiste newspaper reported on Friday.
Quoting sources familiar with (...)