MasterCard Foundation’s Fund for Rural Prosperity 2017 – Deadline August 10
MasterCard Foundation’s Fund for Rural Prosperity 2017 – Deadline August 10 The MasterCard Foundation Fund for Rural Prosperity (FRP) is seeking applications for its 2017 Competition to support innovative financial products, services or processes from organizations that will design, pilot and test new ideas, as well as those that aim to expand proven ideas into […]
Nigeria Gear-Up Efforts to Access U.S.$500 Million Green Climate Fund
The Department of Climate Change (DCC), Federal Ministry of Environment, and the United Nations Development Programmes (UNDP) convened a two-day conference educating stakeholders on government’s intended areas of funding via the Green Climate Fund (GCF). Nigeria’s priority areas of project proposal funding include the Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency and Coastal Resilience. The GCF provisioned under […]
Access to energy to be transformed throughout West Africa
Access to reliable and affordable energy in four West Africa countries will be transformed once a new 1303 km electricity inter connector, inaugurated on Sunday, June 4, 2017 on the sideline of the ECOWAS Heads of State Summit in Monrovia, is operational. The first cross-border energy supply between Cote d’Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea […]
Tanzania Electric Supply Company Limited confirms to join ASEC2017 !
Great New Tanzania Electric Supply Company Limited confirms to join ASEC2017 ! Tanzania Electric Supply Company Limited (TANESCO) is a parastatal organization under the Ministry of Energy and Minerals. The company generates,transmits,distributes and sells electricity to Tanzania Mainland and sells bulk power to the Zanzibar Electricity Corporation (ZECO) which in turn sells it to the public […]
Five signs that Nigeria is leading sub-Saharan Africa in climate action
Last year was one of optimism for environmentalists and sustainability practitioners all over the world. The mass acceptance of the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by national governments, investors and corporations alike finally showed that global and diverse parties were ready to work together to reduce the threat of climate change and […]
Onuoha: With 50% of CBN Power Intervention Funds, Renewable Energy Can Generate 10,000MW
In an interview on the recent launch of his book on green economy – Green Growth, Pathway for Nigeria – the President of Sustainable Energy Practitioners of Nigeria (SEPAN), Dr. Magnus Onuoha, told Chineme Okafor that if Nigeria’s renewable energy sector gets 50 per cent of the power intervention fund shared to other power operators […]
Paris Agreement Implementation Offers Opportunities for Further Action on Climate
18 January 2017, Davos-Klosters, Switzerland – The international community has to meet and build on the commitments countries made in the Paris Agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, government, business and finance leaders said in a session on climate change at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2017. “We have to be honest that we […]
Nigeria: Saraki Seeks Ways to Promote Renewable Energy
Abuja — Nigeria should move against the entrenched interest militating against her successful pivot into renewable energy, the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki has said. Speaking recently at the inaugural green economy lecture series organised by the Sustainable Energy Practitioners of Nigeria (SEPAN) in Abuja, Saraki said that irrespective of these existing interests, a cleverly […]
FG Backs Legislation On Emission Reduction, Renewable Energy
The federal government has stated its readiness to support legislative action that would lead to emission reduction and encourage use of renewable energy saying that there is a need for the National Assembly to possess a good understanding of the dynamics of international and national climate governance. Addressing newsmen at the ongoing 22nd session of […]
COMMUNIQUE: SIXTH EDITION OF THE NIGERIA’S ALTERNATIVE ENERGY EXPOSITION HELD AT SHEHU YAR’ADUA CONFERENCE CENTRE, ABUJA, BETWEEN OCTOBER 19TH -21ST 2016
The Sixth edition of the Nigeria’s Alternative Energy Exposition (NAEE) took place from October 19th to 21st 2016 at Shehu Yar’adua Conference Centre Abuja. The NAEE, anchored by Sustainable Energy Practitioners Association of Nigeria(SEPAN) and organised by Mathesis events represents Nigeria’s largest gathering of policy makers, researchers, manufacturers, investors and consumers brainstormed and brought to […]