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Environmental conference in Senegal calls for pan-African response to plastic waste crisis

Environmental disasters, food insecurity and the issue of plastic pollution and the burning of waste — these are the main topics discussed by the more than 50 African environment ministers who have gathered in Senegal this week The African Ministerial Conference on the Environment is taking place in the wake of major flooding and drought […]

OCP invests in new U.S. technology to co-produce clean hydrogen with sulfuric acid

Moroccan OCP Group, the world’s largest producer of phosphate-based fertilizers, has partnered with U.S. Peregrine Hydrogen Inc, a climate technology company, to co-produce clean hydrogen with sulfuric acid with an advanced electrolyzer technology. Under an agreement inked by the two parties, OCP pledges to fund deployment of Peregrine novel hydrogen technology and purchase the products […]

Algeria: building a sustainable new city

Algeria will be building a new city with the name El-Menia in Constantine, with a budget of $2.4 billion over a 1.2 million sq m development project. The city is designed by Canadian firms Exp and Lemay with the aim of making it a sustainable new community and reducing its carbon footprint as much as […]