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🌐 #Global renewable power capacity increased 36% in 2023, adding 473 GW globally to reach a cumulative total of 3,870 GW by year’s end. Wind & solar PV together accounted for 97% of the renewable capacity additions, & renewables represented 86% of the total power capacity additions (from all energy sources) in 2023 - shows #GSR2024. Read here: ren21.net/gsr-2024/ REN21

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Sustainable, renewable energy is fundamental to Zambia's future. Transitioning #Zambia energy sectors to #renewableenergy holds vast potential to benefit national economies & job creation, & environmental quality. A comprehensive #policy package, such as a #GreenDeal, will support the country in transitioning the energy sectors. The specialisation in #Green Energy & Climate #Finance prepares one for leadership & specialist roles in the field of evaluating, financing, & steering of green #energy projects, extending & broadening knowledge in areas such as international #climatefinance, green project finance modelling, due diligence & company evaluation as well as performance measurement in the green energy sector. Existing frameworks and approaches to tackle climate finance such as the EU’s sustainable finance taxonomy tend to focus on mitigation financing investments that reduce global greenhouse emissions and transform the global economy into a green economy. These perspectives, while critical to solving some of the major challenges around climate change, do not address the impacts of #climatechange that are unavoidable and most severe for the people with the least capacity to cope. Globally, 1.7 billion people living in urban environments are affected by extreme #heat. In Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, and Togo, more than half of the coastline is already subject to rapid erosion. Three-quarters of smallholder #farmers in Zambia are vulnerable to climate shocks, including #droughts and flash floods. When climate events occur, it is the most vulnerable who suffer the most. Climate finance needs to work to reduce global #emissions, but it needs to work for these people, too. Women and #women-led households are heavily affected as well, as they are more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change than men. In low-income countries, 63 percent of female employment is in #agriculture and women are highly dependent on natural resources for their #livelihoods. Compared to men, women have fewer #land rights, lower levels of financial inclusion, less involvement in #cash crops, lower participation in commercial agriculture, and are more likely to carry out unpaid #family work. Additionally, women are more affected by #health impacts associated with climate change, and more likely to die of climate-related disasters like #floods and storms. Women’s vulnerability to climate change is reinforced by #power relations and social #norms, and they have fewer #resources and tools to manage the impacts of climate change. EU-Zambia Business Club European Union in Zambia Self Help Africa ENTERPRISE Zambia Challenge Fund Imani Development European Union EU4MULIMI

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🤝Trade is an #engine to achieve integration into the #Global economy🌐.” “It is a #key driver of sustainable #export growth & #job creation.” 💰“The promotion of #investment & #trade [is a priority]” - elaborated as a national strategy for the promotion of #local products, the need to boost productive capacity as a high priority & improve the #business #climate & export diversification (Agriculture & fisheries as #priority sectors for export diversification.) 📽 https://lnkd.in/dRx8i2uF Strategy balances prioritisation of sectors with #highgrowth potential☘ (#mining, hydrocarbons, metallurgy💎) with those of high #employment potential (#forestry, #food & cash crops, agro-industry.🌱) 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dwYADmDP The Commonwealth Commonwealth Youth Council COMMONWEALTH YOUTH COUNCIL LIMITED

📣Excited to share our candidature, selected for Top 💯 in #Zambia🇿🇲 (Business & Creation project), making the next stage of the Startupper of the Year Challenge, Edition 4 by TotalEnergies following the rating of our project & Share for Likes👍.

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💭💰💭🌱In response to the "Think Trade, Think Green: The Commonwealth Innovative Youth Essay Award Competition - insights on a crucial topic: How can #trade & trade #policy address an aspect of the climate crisis in my country (Zambia🇿🇲), exploring the relationship between trade & #climate change & proposing how trade policy can be part of the #solution to the climate crisis;📝 I wrote the attached #essay on Trade Competitiveness Briefing Series to be launched at The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Samoa in October 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dP2dNkUY 💡 The Commonwealth 56 member countries have a combined population of 2.7 billion people, with over 60% aged between 15 and 29. Commonwealth Youth Council | COMMONWEALTH YOUTH COUNCIL LIMITED | Commonwealth Youth Climate Change Network has focused on youth empowerment for over 50 years, recognising it as a prerequisite for #economic growth and #inclusive development. 🤝In collaboration with the Secretariat’s Trade Competitiveness Section, The Commonwealth invites #young people to participate in this essay competition, amplifying their #voices in #climateaction & policy. This initiative aligns with the Year of Youth objectives, promoting (you)th-led #entrepreneurship, #resilience & climate #adaptation. #CHOGM2024 #SAMOA2024 First Quantum Minerals Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority TAZARA Lobito Corridor Investment Promotion Authority Lobito Atlantic Railway (LAR) TiBE

🚈 💎🔗https://lnkd.in/d4i74t7K The Mining or Mineral Supply Chain (MSC) development provides useful methodology for building MSCs at the #local, national & #regional (REC) levels in African #mining countries. These strategies & methods will assist African states to realise the significant mining industry backward #linkages opportunities & to use #mineral resources to drive #industrialisation, particularly for African countries with a high level of mineral dependence. “Procurement is typically the largest #payment a mine site will make in host countries usually more than #taxes, #wages, and community #investment combined”, which underlines the crucial importance of maximising the localisation of the #supply chain whilst mining demand is still robust (before the resources are exhausted).  Consequently, given that minerals are by long way Africa’s biggest net #export can be argued that building the Africa’s mineral supply chains, in our countries, our regional economic #communities and across our continent, is the most important strategy within our mineral #policy. In addition to being the most the biggest payment in host countries, it the MSC has the possibility of outliving the mineral resources as well reinventing itself through lateral migration into #manufacturing products for other, sustainable, sectors. As we embark on the work of building our MSCs, it is important to bear in mind that the scope for MSC development within any one country will be limited, and the building of substantial and sustainable MSCs are critically dependent on accessing national, regional and continental markets. We must further emphasise that logistics are of the essence, and development of cost effective MSCs on a national, regional and continental level requires coordinated investment in #transport & cross‐border systems, or overseas imports shipped into our ports will continue to have lower #logistics costs to our mines, and be able to displace local MSC products. Consequently, even if your country does not have significant mining industry, it is part of an African Regional Economic Community (REC) & a continent where mining is the dominant generator of export receipts (#forex). Given the trend towards African regional economic integration through REC Free Trade Areas (FTAs), sometimes with Common External Tariffs (CETs), as well as the new African Continental FTA (ACFTA), there are increasing opportunities for building the Mineral Supply Chains (MSCs) through intra-African trade, even in member states with small mining industries. Historically, mining has not generally been a driver of sustainable growth, development and industrialisation, but rather an enclave activity, with weak linkages to the rest of our economy, and often a driver of conflict and misery. The Commonwealth Commonwealth Youth Council Commonwealth Youth Climate Change Network #lobitocorridor #Chogm #Samoa2024 #trade #ThinkTradeThinkGreen

💎The Mining or Mineral Supply Chain (MSC) development provides useful methodology for building MSCs at the #local, national & #regional (REC) levels in African #mining countries. These strategies & methods will assist African states to realise the significant mining industry backward #linkages opportunities & to use #mineral resources to drive #industrialisation, particularly for African countries with a high level of mineral dependence. “Procurement is typically the largest #payment a mine site will make in host countries usually more than #taxes, #wages, and community #investment combined”, which underlines the crucial importance of maximising the localisation of the #supply chain whilst mining demand is still robust (before the resources are exhausted).  Consequently, given that minerals are by long way Africa’s biggest net #export can be argued that building the Africa’s mineral supply chains, in our countries, our regional economic #communities and across our continent, is the most important strategy within our mineral #policy. In addition to being the most the biggest payment in host countries, it the MSC has the possibility of outliving the mineral resources as well reinventing itself through lateral migration into #manufacturing products for other, sustainable, sectors. As we embark on the work of building our MSCs, it is important to bear in mind that the scope for MSC development within any one country will be limited, and the building of substantial and sustainable MSCs are critically dependent on accessing national, regional and continental markets. We must further emphasise that logistics are of the essence, and development of cost effective MSCs on a national, regional and continental level requires coordinated investment in #transport & cross‐border systems, or overseas imports shipped into our ports will continue to have lower #logistics costs to our mines, and be able to displace local MSC products. Consequently, even if your country does not have significant mining industry, it is part of an African Regional Economic Community (REC) & a continent where mining is the dominant generator of export receipts (#forex). Given the trend towards African regional economic integration through REC Free Trade Areas (FTAs), sometimes with Common External Tariffs (CETs), as well as the new African Continental FTA (ACFTA), there are increasing opportunities for building the Mineral Supply Chains (MSCs) through intra-African trade, even in member states with small mining industries. Historically, mining has not generally been a driver of sustainable growth, development and industrialisation, but rather an enclave activity, with weak linkages to the rest of our economy, and often a driver of conflict and misery. First Quantum Minerals Pensulo Publishers The Commonwealth Commonwealth Youth Climate Change Network #lobitocorridor #CHOGM #Samoa2024