As the sun sets in Africa, 600 million people do not have a light to turn on. Despite having 60 percent of the world’s best solar resources, and over 30 percent of the essential minerals required for the world’s renewable technologies, the continent has received less than two percent of global renewable investment. Energy is the key to African development, but the expansion of renewables goes beyond reliable energy as it is indispensable for both climate resilience, and the fight against...

Since the start of the industrial revolution in the mid-1700s, fossil fuels have played a pivotal role in the expansion of our economies. The Western world has developed off the back of carbon intensive non-renewable resources, yet the consequences of these actions are becoming increasingly evident, and it is the poor who are set to pay the disproportionate price. Our warming climate is unequivocally linked to our preceding and continued use of fossil fuels, and the evidence that links our...