Cross-post notice: This article was originally published on AgenticPPA.com and is reproduced here with the author’s permission. Mobile money is changing the landscape of African markets, giving millions of unbanked, poor people access to financial services. This change is not just the way things get done; it is also a sign of new things to […]
Read More »Africa Charts Its Course in the Age of AI: The Significance of the Africa Declaration
Cross-post notice: This article was originally published on AgenticPPA.com and is reproduced here with the author’s permission. The inaugural Global AI Summit on Africa just announced the Africa Declaration on Artificial Intelligence, a significant milestone for the continent. This shows that Africa is no longer waiting for AI. It is taking (or at least trying hard […]
Read More »Energy Crisis and Perspectives for Cuba
Cuba is a Caribbean island, home to around 10 million people, and a socialist country with a single-party system. After the Triumph of the Revolution in 1959, Cuba became a strong ally of the socialist bloc and a member of the COMECON. As part of that economic, political, and commercial alliance, the energy sector in […]
Read More »Federal Workforce Cuts: A Timeline and Their Threat to Climate Action
Since Donald Trump returned to the presidency in 2025, his administration has aggressively downsized the federal workforce, which has disrupted key agencies, especially those responsible for environmental protection and climate action. Through executive orders and agency actions, tens of thousands of federal employees have been dismissed—some of which has been ruled illegal— posing serious risks […]
Read More »Geoengineering – Climate solution or folly?
It is commonly established among the climate scientific community that there is not a ‘silver bullet’ solution to address climate change and its effects. Instead, many have advocated for a ‘silver buckshot’ that takes a multi-pronged approach to address climate change (although some say a buckshot is not enough either). Does geoengineering serve as one […]
Read More »Four takeaways from the first White House climate resilience summit and framework
Photo Credit: Christophe Paul 2023 By FREE Staff In September, the Biden administration hosted the first White House Summit on Building Climate Resilient Communities. The event brought together 25 states, territories, and Tribal Nations to discuss and collaborate on how to create and integrate community-driven, locally focused, climate solutions to reduce carbon emissions and mitigate […]
Read More »Biden administration announces $10.5 billion funding for U.S. electric grid transformation
By FREE Staff As the U.S. shifts to the electrification of its transport and other systems, one of the biggest and most difficult challenges the country faces is how to ensure the electric grid can handle the added stress. The country’s network of hundreds of thousands of miles of powerlines is taking center stage in […]
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