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Volkswagen plans integrated mobility concept in Rwanda; vehicle production in Kenya

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Volkswagen is taking a further step to develop market potentials in Africa. Volkswagen says that Rwanda is well-suited to be a pioneer of new mobility solutions as it has a population of young tech-savvy people and its capital Kigali is seen as the most connected city in Africa. initiative.

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PwC analysis finds meeting 2 C warming target would require “unprecedented and sustained” reductions over four decades

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The new reality is a much more challenging future in terms of planning, financing and predictability. Other G20 (Australia, Korea, EU, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Argentina). Each country is modelled individually but connected with linkages via US productivity growth (known as the global technological frontier).

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Study recommends $10B/year US federal investment in energy RD&D and a substantial price on carbon emissions; leveraging the national labs and encouraging the private sector for a clean energy future

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The US government should strengthen the connections between its energy innovation institutions and the private sector throughout the innovation chain, but particularly as technologies move toward the development, demonstration, and deployment phases. This creates both new competitive threats and new opportunities for cooperation.

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BNEF: producing battery materials in the DRC could lower supply-chain emissions and add value to the country’s cobalt

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With a functioning AfCFTA, the DRC can receive other upstream mineral inputs needed for lithium-ion batteries—such as manganese from, say, South Africa and Madagascar, copper from Zambia, graphite from Mozambique and Tanzania, phosphate from Morocco, and lithium from Zimbabwe, to name but a few.

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