Fine, Sanctions, or Waiver: Iranian Gas Will Come at a Pr...
When Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi visits Pakistan this week (April 22, 2024), experts say the two issues topmost on his mind that he will want to discuss ...

Portable Ginnery Could Revive Kenya’s Ailing Cotton Industry
Kirinyaga University may have just breathed new life into Kenya’s ailing cotton industry as varsity dons develop a portable cotton ginnery. For an industry t...

‘Living in Fear’: Landowners in Uganda’s Oil Field on Bri...
When Mugisha Jealousy Mulimba learned that the government of Uganda was dragging him to court, he expected justice. But he says he has realized these courts ...

Better Incentives Needed to Expand Solar Energy in Cuba
With a bolder policy and flexible payment mechanisms, perhaps Alexis Rodríguez would have opted for solar panels for his home, instead of the portable genera...

Africa Pushing Limits To Boost Renewable Energy Supply Ch...
Investors, regulators, researchers, policymakers, and representatives of renewable energy companies, acknowledged the key challenges of shifting away from fo...

Solar Power and Biogas Empower Women Farmers in Brazil
A bakery, fruit pulp processing and water pumped from springs are empowering women farmers in Goiás, a central-eastern state of Brazil. New renewable energy ...

Women Affected by ‘Gender-Biased’ Climate Change Deserve ...
While research into the unequal impacts of climate change on women is growing, more is needed to enable them to realize their rights to climate justice. Rese...

Carbon Markets Biased, Distorted, Undermined
Carbon dioxide emission taxes, prices and markets have been touted as key to stopping global heating. However, carbon markets have failed mainly because they...

No Turning a Blind Eye to Protection of Dominican Republi...
Ahead of the Dominican Republic’s elections, IPS spoke to Miguel Ceara Hatton, Dominican Minister of Environment and Natural Resources, about the challenges ...

Grassroots Venezuelan Initiative Aims to Combat Electrici...
Sweating profusely, unable to sleep because of the heat, fed up with years of blackouts several times a day, many residents of Venezuela’s torrid north...

Biogas Is Key to Harmony Between Agribusiness and Environ...
Faced with the recurring problem of environmental pollution caused by the poultry industry in rural communities in El Salvador, some companies are responding...

Brazil’s Biofuel Potential Set to Expand Thanks to Sustai...
Brazil is counting on biofuels to assert itself as an energy powerhouse in the near future, as a decisive supplier of low-carbon jet fuel, a requirement of t...

LPG, a Useful “Transitional” Fuel for the UN’s Clean Cook...
One of the key efforts under the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals is to provide poor households with access to clean cooking technologies to...

From Gas to Ash: The Struggle of Nigerian Women Amidst Su...
One sunny mid-morning in Omu-Aran village, a community in Kwara State, North Central Nigeria, Iyabo Sunday sat beside a firewood stand observing her pot of b...

Salvadoran Poultry Farms Produce Biogas, Easing Socio-env...
In a win-win relationship, a segment of El Salvador’s agribusiness industry is taking steps to ease the tension of the historic socio-environmental con...

Hapless New Year for Global South
As dire economic predictions for 2023 did not materialise, pundits began 2024 far more optimistically. But policy ghosts from the last half-century will like...

Phasing out from Fossil Fuels: An Imperative for Climate ...
Climate change made 2023 the warmest year on record. As urgency mounts to address this worldwide crisis, phasing out the use of fossil fuels is a necessary s...

Women Biomass Producers: Energy’s Largest and Largely Inv...
The International Energy Agency (IEA) held its annual ministers meeting last week in Paris, marking the 50th anniversary of the world’s leading energy organi...

Inequality Also Afflicts Clean Energy in Latin America
The specter of blackouts hovers over the Mexican city of La Paz, the capital of the state of Baja California Sur in Mexico’s far northwestern corner, a...

Embodying the Spirit of the Dragon
The Year of the Dragon is upon us. UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in his message for this Lunar New Year, “The dragon symbolizes energy, wisdom, ...

Neocolonial ISDS, Abused, Biased, Costly, and Grossly Unfair
Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) provisions in international trade and investment agreements – long abused by opportunists with means – are slowly be...

Road to COP29: Highest Climate Ambitions Needed to Decarb...
The road to COP29 has begun in earnest in the backdrop of a global climate report indicating that not only was 2023 the warmest year in a 174-year climate re...

Cubans Are Waiting for a Major Boost to Low Emissions Tra...
Jorge Sarmientos said he made a good investment when he bought an electric motorcycle to get around and avoid the anxiety suffered by the users of Cuba’...

Solar Energy Gives Important Boost to Small-scale Farmers...
The installation of photovoltaic panels to use solar energy to irrigate small farms is expanding quickly in Chile because it lowers costs and optimizes the u...

The Spectre of Migration: A conversation with Hammoud Gal...
Karl Marx’s Manifesto of the Communist Party begins with the now worn-out phrase: “A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of communism. All the powers of...

Onerous Debt Making Poorest Poorer
Contractionary economic trends since 2008 and ‘geopolitical’ conflicts subverting international cooperation have worsened world conditions, especially in the...

The Ghost of Oil Haunts Mexico’s Lacandona Jungle
The Lacandona jungle in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas is home to 769 species of butterflies, 573 species of trees, 464 species of birds, 114 species ...

The Opaque Chain of Electric Cars Assembled in Mexico
The city of Austin, Texas, on the U.S.-Mexico border, had 945,000 residents in 2021 and on average each household owned two cars, hundreds of them electric. ...

Saving Energy, Saving Forests: How Kindle Stoves Are Chan...
Having this stove has made life easy for me; I do not worry about getting a lot of firewood to cook outside, and I have more time to do other tasks because c...

World Bank Enables Private Capture of Profits, Public Res...
The World Bank insists commercial finance is necessary for achieving economic recovery and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), but does little to ensur...

Watching the Arctic Melt, Meteorologist’s Experience on ...
The climate is warming up because we are accumulating carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels, and all else results from this! So, having a ...

What Is the Cost of Phasing Out Fossil Fuels in Latin Ame...
One of the most heated debates at the annual climate summit coming to a conclusion in this United Arab Emirates city revolved around the phrasing of the fina...

Clean Energies Underpin Self-Sustainable System at Cuban ...
The combined use of clean energies allows Finca del Medio, a farm in central Cuba, to practice a unique system of family farming production that guarantees s...

It’s Time To Align Climate Finance and Social Justice, Sa...
Joshua Amponsem, co-director of the Youth Climate Justice Fund, believes it is time to ensure climate finance and social justice issues are elevated to the t...

Renewable Commitments at COP28 Pose Stiffer Energy Challe...
One of the world’s largest solar power plants, the Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum Park, captures solar rays in the south of this United Arab Emirates c...

Why the world needs more oil, not less – Al Ghais
Vienna, Austria, 31 August 2023--OPEC Secretary General, HE Haitham Al Ghais, stated that the world would continue to witness rising oil demand amidst g...

OPEC Secretary General to participate in G20 meeting in I...
Vienna, Austria, 21 July 2023--OPEC Secretary General, HE Haitham Al Ghais, will participate at the G20 Energy Ministerial Meeting in Goa, India, on 22 July.

Maximum energy, minimum emissions: OPEC commentary for th...
Vienna, Austria, 17 May 2023--OPEC Secretary General, HE Haitham Al Ghais, has contributed to the publication for the G7 Summit that will take plac...

OPEC and the City of Vienna to host the Vienna Energy Sch...
Vienna, Austria, 2 May 2023--The OPEC Secretariat and the City of Vienna will host the Third Vienna Energy Scholar Programme (VESP) from 4 to 9 September 202...

OPEC to host the Fourth OPEC-OPEC Fund Annual Legal Works...
Vienna, Austria, 17 October 2022--The OPEC Secretariat will host the Fourth OPEC-OPEC Fund Annual Legal Workshop on regulatory issues related to the ene...

OPEC and the City of Vienna to host the Vienna Energy Sch...
Vienna, Austria, 8 September 2022--The OPEC Secretariat and the City of Vienna will host the Second Vienna Energy Scholar Programme (VESP) from 19 to 23 Sept...

You have indeed been a worthy ambassador of our country, ...
Abuja, Nigeria, 5 July 2022--President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday in Abuja expressed the nation’s gratitude to the outgoing Secretary General of the Organizati...

OPEC takes part in Nigeria Oil and Gas Conference and Exh...
Abuja, Nigeria, 5 July 2022--The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) participated in the 21st edition of Nigeria Oil and Gas (NOG) Confe...

OPEC Secretary General congratulates Minister Al-Rumhy on...
Vienna, Austria, 17 June 2022--OPEC Secretary General, HE Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo, congratulated HE Dr Mohammed Bin Hamad Al-Rumhy on completing his tenure ...

OPEC’s 21st Coordination Meeting on Climate Change takes ...
Vienna, Austria, 31 May 2022--The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) held the 21st Coordination Meeting on Climate Change via videoconf...