Africa has launched an ambitious Africa Renewable Energy Initiative (AREI) to develop more than 10GW of renewable energy generation capacity by 2020, and at least 300GW by 2030, potentially making the continent the cleanest in the world.

At the Paris climate change conference, 195 countries have reached an unprecedented accord to commit nearly all states to lowering greenhouse emissions aiming at decreasing dangerous climate change effects.

The Global Clean Water Desalination Alliance, initiated by UAE's Masdar, has been launched at COP21, marking a start of a program seeking possible solutions to the water-energy nexus.

Egyptian President Sisi spoke at the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris on November 30th. Sisi stated support for a binding deal, but raised an issue of disparity between developed and developing countries' contributions to climate change.

Climate Change Summit (COP21) has begun today in Paris with a superior goal to produce a legally binding agreement on greenhouse gas emissions reduction.

Frustration is growing amongst diplomats wrangling over their own lack of progress on a deal to combat climate change.