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Mary Robinson says governments must confront this harsh reality if runaway emissions are not to threaten the climateWorld governments must get used to the idea of leaving fossil fuel reserves in the ground unexploited and...

Access to clean energy shouldn't be the only goal – provide electricity for economic purposes to truly empower peopleThe lack of agreed collective action at the Rio+20 Earth summit in July to deliver the goals of the UN...

Often accused of lacking solutions, anti-privatisation activists are keen to show alternative ways to manage and deliver services It would be easy to think last week's water talks in Marseille, France, were dominated by a...

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has set ambitious targets to restore the country's electricity supply. But will it meet them by 2015?It is hard to believe how Clara Town, a slum in Liberia's capital, Monrovia, once had access to the...

An Indian college has trained 12 Sierra Leonean women to become solar engineers as part of a drive to bring electricity to rural communitiesA group of 12 women from villages in Sierra Leone is in the frontline of a battle...