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Why promoting green infrastructure in Africa may be bad for development

  • Written by: The Conversation
imageThe Kariba dam on the Zambezi River produces most of the electricity used in Zimbabwe and Zambia, supports extensive fishing and tourism industries and protects hundreds of thousands of people from floods.shutterstock

Inadequate infrastructure is widely recognised to be holding back Africa’s development and lowering the quality of life of its...

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Coal: here and now versus there and then

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The Federal Court’s decision to overturn the Adani Group’s federal environmental approval to build the A$16 billion Carmichael coal mine in Queensland highlights policy issues that have a significance far beyond Australia. The reaction of the Abbott government reminds us just how difficult it is for states –...

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