Postcards: Pakistan faces an unexpected dilemma – too much electricity
ZOFEEN T EBRAHIM, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on Pakistan’s issues with power…
“Exposing inequalities”: Evictions, power cuts heighten South Africa housing crisis amid lockdown
KIM HARRISBERG, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on warnings concerning the impact the COVID-19 lockdown is having on the nation’s poor…
DATA PROCESSING: HOW CAT VIDEOS COULD CAUSE A “CLIMATE CHANGE NIGHTMARE”
UMBERTO BACCHI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on efforts to make data processing centres more energy efficient and sustainable…
Energy aid neglects “health emergency” fuelled by dirty cooking
Barcelona, SpainThomson Reuters Foundation Governments, development banks and businesses are providing less than one per cent of the money needed each year to wean three billion people off dirty, health-harming cooking by an international deadline of 2030, new data on energy access showed on Tuesday. In 2017, the latest figures available, funding commitments for clean […]
Fund smarter to switch on lights for the poor – UN envoy
Barcelona, SpainThomson Reuters Foundation Everyone in the world could be provided with clean, affordable electric power by a global deadline of 2030 if international funding toward the effort is used more intelligently, the UN official in charge of the task said. Rachel Kyte, the UN secretary-general’s special representative for sustainable energy for all, told the […]
Uganda shakes up electricity access amid global infrastructure reset
Barcelona, SpainThomson Reuters Foundation Electricity providers in Uganda are teaming up to find a new business model to boost the speed and efficiency of getting power to those living without it, in the hope it can be copied in other parts of Africa and Asia, project backers said this week. About one billion people worldwide […]
Finance for electricity access too little, too dirty – energy body
Thomson Reuters Foundation Finance to provide electric power to nearly one billion people who live without it is rising – but too slowly to meet a global goal to reach everyone by 2030, an international body said on Monday. Meanwhile, funding to expand cleaner, more energy-efficient cooking has declined, Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) said […]
POWER
The true test of a leader is if they can lay down power. The power of the cross. PICTURE: Gift Habeshaw/Unsplash A remarkable thing in our society is how a government can be in power one day, and politely vacating offices the next. In the course of history, this is a very strange thing! Most leaders […]
ESSAY: HOW WILLOW CREEK EXPOSED OUR SINS
KYLE STROBEL, an associate professor at Talbot School of Theology, and JAMIN GOGGIN, a pastor at Missions Hills Church in San Marcos, California, say recent events at Willow Creek Community Church and other churches show the evangelical church in the US is at a “tipping point”…
SIGHT-SEEING: THE CHURCH AND POWER
NILS VON KALM reflects on why the church should heed the warning about the link between corruption and power…