How Can African Countries Participate in U.S. Clean Energy Supply Chains?
October 3rd, 2023
Courtesy of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a new report examining how the combination of key mineral endowments in African countries and U.S. objectives to reorient clean energy supply chains away from competitors like China can serve as the foundation for a new economic and strategic relationship; SUMMARY THE UNITED STATES IS BUILDING OUT […]
Read more »Philippine, Bangladesh Power Giants: Gas Needed in Green Transition
October 2nd, 2023
Via Nikkei Asia, an article on developing Asia’s massive electricity demand: Booming Asian countries like the Philippines and Bangladesh need natural gas to meet domestic energy demand as they shift to greener sources, according to their leading power providers. AboitizPower, the power generation arm of Philippine conglomerate Aboitiz Group, and Bangladesh’s largest power provider Summit Power International […]
Read more »Growth In Central Asia Is Outpacing That of Emerging Europe
September 27th, 2023
Via Emerging Europe, a look at how growth in Central Asia is outpacing that of emerging Europe; ‘The robust growth of the economies of Central Asia and the weaker performance of those in Central Europe and the Baltic states reflect the different consequences of energy prices, inflation and shifting patterns of trade.’ The economies of […]
Read more »En Route: Cairo–Cape Town Highway / Trans-African Highway 4
September 26th, 2023
Scheduled to be inaugurated in 2024, the Cairo–Cape Town Highway (Trans-African Highway 4) is the transcontinental road network being developed by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the African Development Bank (ADB), and the African Union. The highway is scheduled to pass through 11 African countries at a length of 10,228 kilometers, of […]
Read more »Saudi Arabia: Redrawing The Map Of The Future With Fibre-Optic Cables
September 24th, 2023
Via Middle East Eye, a look at how Saudi Arabia is redrawing the map of the future with fibre-optic cables: Modern life is dependent on the internet and the hundreds of underwater fibre-optic cables that criss-cross the world, carrying essential digital services from country to country in milliseconds. Egypt has long enjoyed a dominant role as […]
Read more »Making the Most of Africa’s Strategic Green Minerals
September 23rd, 2023
Via Project Syndicate, commentary on how – as global demand for batteries, electric vehicles, and renewable-energy equipment surges – African countries could harness their large deposits of minerals for the goal of fostering green industrialization. This would enable the continent to meet development objectives while also tackling climate change: With the global transition to cleaner […]
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.