The spectacular fall in prices for oil and other commodities since mid-2014 and what it means for resource-rich developing countries will be among key issues discussed by participants of UNCTAD’s sixth annual Global Commodities Forum at the Palais des Nations in Geneva on 13–14 April.
Over the past seven years, the Zayed Future Energy Prize has rewarded 39 innovators, awarded more than US$22 million in prize money and positively affected millions of lives in communities across the world.
Moody’s Investors Service says that the impact of carbon reduction policies is rising globally, creating credit risks in carbon-intensive industries but, at the same time, driving significant innovation and change across many industrial sectors.
With more than 4,200 oil and gas blocks identified, Africa is the last true oil and gas frontier. About half of these blocks are open, subject to force majeure.
A shortfall of about 500 megawatts of power and the projections for additional power demand in Ghana has attracted more than 20 proposals from the US, Germany, Denmark, India, China, South Africa, Turkey, Brazil and others to invest in the country’s power sector.
The World Bank and the African Development Bank (AfDB) have advised Ghana and other oil producing countries to look beyond the oil resources in the face of the plummeting crude oil prices on the international market.
Tullow Oil Plc, Africa’s leading independent oil exploration and production is to lay off more workers as a result of the declining oil prices on the international market.
Control Risks, the global business risk consultancy, today published its annual RiskMap report, an established authoritative guide and key reference point for policymakers and business leaders seeking to plot global trends over the coming year.
A renowned Chartered Economist, Dr. John Gatsi has advised the managers of the Ghanaian economy to cut expenditure on executive travels in the revised budget of 2015.
Data centres have for years been known to be excessive consumers of power, consuming up to 3% of all global electricity production, and roughly ten times more per square metre than the average office.
