Investing In Africa’s Clean Energy Future
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 [...]
Why False Energy Hopes Are Bad for Africa
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, commentary on how rich-world advocates are pushing outlandish green scenarios that will keep Africans poor. At the 2023 Africa Climate Summit, a coalition of 500 activist [...]
Putting Renewable Energy Within Reach: Vietnam’s High-Stakes Pivot
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 [...]
Abu Dhabi’s ADQ in Talks With Turkey to Build Railway for Trade Corridor
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 [...]
China’s Temu App: Not An Amazon Killer, A Dollar Store Killer
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 [...]
How to Break China’s Hold on Batteries and Critical Minerals
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, a commentary on how the  security of clean energy is easier to manage than the security of oil; The rapid growth of electric vehicle sales finally makes real the prospect [...]

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WILDCATS AND BLACK SHEEP
Wildcats & Black Sheep is a personal interest blog dedicated to the identification and evaluation of maverick investment opportunities arising in frontier - and, what some may consider to be, “rogue” or “black sheep” - markets around the world.

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.