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    Report Reveals Key to Scaling Renewable Energy Worldwide

    Report Reveals Key to Scaling Renewable Energy Worldwide

    World Wildlife Fund Challenges in scaling implementation of renewable energy must be addressed if the target of 100 percent sustainable renewables by 2050 is to be achieved, according to a new World Wildlife Fund (WWF) report. In the report, challenges inhibiting scaling up implementation in seven countries—China, India, Germany, Morocco, Philippines, South Africa and Spain—are […]

    14 Activists Arrested Protesting Coal in South Africa

    14 Activists Arrested Protesting Coal in South Africa

    Greenpeace Africa Greenpeace activists chained themselves to a boardroom table. (Yusuf Omar, Twitter) Fourteen activists including groundWork‘s Bobby Peek, Earthlife’s Makoma Lekalakala and Greenpeace Africa‘s Melita Steele have been arrested while protesting at the Eskom megawatt park. Today, three campaigning organizations joined forces to put South Africa’s energy utility, Eskom, under “new management.” Activists confronted […]