China has taken a major step forward towards setting an ambitious renewable energy (RE) target for the year 2030. In a workshop held in January, some 40 government energy planners, business representatives, researchers and clean industry associations reviewed a new REEEP-funded report by the Centre for Renewable Energy Development (CRED).

Nine clean energy projects that could reduce greenhouse gas emissions across Africa by ca. 500,000 metric tons a year, the equivalent of taking 85,000 cars off the road annually, were presented to investors in Johannesburg at the CTI-PFAN Africa Forum for Clean Energy Financing (AFRICEF) on 15 September 2010.