Investing In Africa’s Clean Energy Future
October 5th, 2023
Via Semafor, a look at where investment is going for clean energy in Africa: A key aspect of global conversations around the clean energy transition relates to the financial cost of pivoting production systems in developing countries from current facilities that depend on fossil fuels to solar and wind sources. Most of the investment in Africa […]
Read more »Putting Renewable Energy Within Reach: Vietnam’s High-Stakes Pivot
October 5th, 2023
Courtesy of McKinsey, a report on how – with conducive conditions – Vietnam’s renewable-energy development could increase exponentially to attract manufacturers and ensure its energy security: Vietnam’s long-awaited Power Development Plan VIII (PDP8) has recently been approved, setting ambitious renewable-energy goals for 2030—similar to the recommendations for Vietnam to embrace renewables set out in our 2019 […]
Read more »Abu Dhabi’s ADQ in Talks With Turkey to Build Railway for Trade Corridor
October 5th, 2023
Via Al Monitor, a look at how – amid increasing cooperation between the two countries – an alternative trade corridor is planned linking Europe, the Middle East and Asia; Abu Dhabi wealth fund ADQ is reportedly in talks with Turkey to build a railway over the Bosporus in Istanbul as part of a planned trade corridor linking […]
Read more »China’s Temu App: Not An Amazon Killer, A Dollar Store Killer
October 5th, 2023
Via Bloomberg, a look at how China’s Temu is chipping away at the stranglehold that retailers such as Dollar General and Dollar Tree have over low-income and discount shoppers: Retail industry watchers are saying that Amazon.com Inc. has met its match with the viral popularity of online shopping app Temu. Owned by China’s PDD Holdings Inc., Temu […]
Read more »China’s Belt and Road Shows the High Price of Beijing’s Money
October 4th, 2023
Via Bloomberg, commentary on the high price of the BRI: Birthdays are in equal parts celebratory but also inherently tinged with regret, for opportunities missed and mistakes made. All of which may well be weighing on Beijing as its Belt and Road Initiative marks its 10th anniversary this year. For the most part, it has […]
Read more »Taliban Urge Japan To Invest In Afghanistan’s Minerals, Metals
October 4th, 2023
Courtesy of Nikkei Asia, a report on the Taliban’s outreach to Japan for mineral investments: Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have called on Japan to invest in the country’s unexploited minerals and metals amid a rush by Chinese investors into the country. The Taliban is banking on investments in its untapped minerals to lift the country out […]
Read more »Focusing primarily on The New Seven Sisters - the largely state owned petroleum companies from the emerging world that have become key players in the oil & gas industry as identified by Carola Hoyos, Chief Energy Correspondent for The Financial Times - but spanning other nascent opportunities around the globe that may hold potential in the years ahead, Wildcats & Black Sheep is a place for the adventurous to contemplate & evaluate the emerging markets of tomorrow.