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Vanguard News LPG: Refiners, distributors seek adoption of clean energy for cooking On By Obas Esiedesa – Abuja With over 850 million Africans still dependent on solid fuel for cooking, refiners and distributors of Liquefied Petroleum Gas, LPG, have called for speedy deployment of clean cooking fuel across the continent. The adoption, LPG experts say, would save the lives of about 600,000 people annually on the continent. Speaking at a virtual workshop organized by African Refiners and Distribution Association (ARDA), they warned of imminent dangers if Africa fails to quickly adopt modern ...

​Industry majors, including Global LPG Partnership (GLPGP), World LPG Association, Clean Cooking Alliance, Shell Foundation and Oryx Energies at the meeting insisted on the need for the development of a robust African LPG value chain. ​Speaking on the backdrop of the continent’s growing population, the stakeholders led by the Executive Secretary of ARDA, Anibor Kragha said the need for energy transition in the face of projected growing energy demands remain sacrosanct. ​Kragha highlighted LPG as a credible near-term solution for reducing carbon emissions against polluting solid fuels,...

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The Rockefeller Foundation Updates 790 million people across the globe who live without electricity and 2 billion people who are denied reliable, affordable power. $200 billion opportunity for climate-first funders to avoid 626 million tonnes CO2 & deliver universal energy access in Africa by 2030. The climate crisis is the world’s greatest existential threat – but the race to reduce CO2 emissions and achieve global net zero is often perceived as at odds with the scale of economic growth needed to tackle poverty in emerging markets. Robust research now disproves this tension. A recent stu...

A woman beetroot farmer with the S4S team. Photo: Special Arrangement/THE HINDU   S4S is promoting solar dehydration as a means to empower women farmers and reduce food waste Life is not easy for the ‘ugly ducklings’ of the agricultural world. For all the perfectly shaped fruits and vegetables that we buy from the green grocers, there are thousands left on their stalks to rot unharvested in the field simply because they do not meet the aesthetic criteria of retailers. Mumbai-based foodtech innovator Science 4 Society (S4S) Technologies has been working to cut down on this waste by promo...