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August 6, 2025

The Future of Food: Sustainability and Climate Impacts of AI, Vertical, and Robotic Farming

As climate change intensifies and global food demands rise, the agricultural sector faces mounting pressure to innovate. Technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) farming, vertical farming, and robotic farming are reshaping how we grow food, offering both promise and challenges for sustainability and climate resilience. Additionally, challenges such as soil degradation and infertility and water […]

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May 27, 2025

Mobile Money in African Market Places: Past, Present and Future

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 […]

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May 20, 2025

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 […]

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May 13, 2025

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 […]

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Filed Under: Climate Change, Energy Access, Renewable Energy Tagged With: Decarbonization, Energy Markets, Energy Security, Renewable Energy, Resilience

May 10, 2025

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 […]

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Filed Under: Carbon Markets, Energy Economics, Energy Markets Tagged With: Climate Finance, Energy Markets, Energy Security, Resilience

April 15, 2025

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 […]

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Filed Under: Climate Change, Energy Access, Global Environments Tagged With: Climate Finance, Energy Markets, Energy Security, Resilience

December 15, 2024

Takeaways from NERC’s 2024 Reliability Assessment

For summer 2024, NERC estimated that much of North America would remain at risk of supply shortfalls, with seven key areas, including portions of Texas, California, New England and the Midwest at particular risk. 

The North American Electric Reliability Corporation is a nonprofit dedicated to ensuring the stability of the continent’s grid system. Originally formed as the North American Electric Reliability Council and founded in 1968, its successor, also known as NERC, launched in 2006.  The group’s mission is to “assure the effective and efficient reduction of risks to […]

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