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Canada’s Elcora Advanced Materials has selected Lab 4 for the design and testing of Elcora’s planned vanadium pentoxide plant in Morocco, according to a company statement released last week. Elcora’s Ermazon Vanadium Project aims to use extracted vanadium to produce vanadium pentoxide, an industrial chemical used as a catalyst in the production of redox flow […]
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Can space agtech create a more food-secure future? The UAE thinks so
Is space agtech the answer to great food security? Countries like the UAE — which imports 85% of its food — have increasingly turned to agtech and space agtech to bolster food security. Abu Dhabi’s StarLab Oasis — a partnership between Houston-based commercial space exploration company NanoRacks and the Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO) — […]
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McLaren’s hybrid supercar Artura makes its MENA debut in Dubai
McLaren Artura lands in MENA: McLaren Dubai has delivered its first Artura hybrid in the Middle East to a UAE-based entrepreneur and car enthusiast with the new generation supercar set to hit UAE’s roads soon, according to a statement. Let’s talk specs: The Artura is a plug-in hybrid that switches between petrol and electric power […]
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Education and recycling is going hand in hand at a Nigerian school
An unorthodox way to pay tuition fees: A Nigerian school in a poverty-stricken area in Lagos is allowing parents to pay tuition fees for their children in plastic bottles in a bid to accommodate a rising number of unschooled children and plastic bottles on the streets, Quartzreported last week. Morit International School in Lagos’ Ajegunle […]
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Lucid will train 1k Saudi workers in EV manufacturing + Qatar doubles use of recycled materials in road construction and ramps up research on EV bus rollout
KSA’s EV workers set to receive training from Lucid: Saudi Arabia’s HumanResources Development Fund (HRDF) signed an agreement with EV manufacturer Lucid Motors to upskill over 1k Saudis working in the EV manufacturing industry, the fund’s general manager Turki Al Jawini announced on Twitter. The agreement builds upon an MoU signed in October and will […]
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Tesla is building a Megapack energy storage batteries factory in Shanghai
Tesla will build a new factory for its large-scale energy storage Megapack units in Shanghai, the company said in a tweet. The Shanghai factory will have the capacity to produce 10k Megapack units annually, which is equal to 40 GWh of energy storage, Xinhua reports. The Megapack is “a powerful battery that provides energy storage […]
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A French mining group may have cracked the method for recycling EV batteries
Someone is thinking ahead: The environmental impact of making EV batteries is a rising concern as the energy transition shift moves forward but new techniques to recycle critical minerals are emerging, Euronews reported. How much scrap are we talking about? Without any recycling measures in place, 8 mn tons of battery scrap could be disposed […]
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APRIL 2023 15-16 April (Saturday-Sunday): G7 Ministers’ Meeting on Climate, Energy, and Environment, Sapporo, Japan. 18-19 April (Tuesday-Wednesday): International Conference on Green Energy and Environmental Technology (ICGEET), Dubai, UAE. 29-30 April (Saturday-Sunday): First COP27 transitional committee workshop, Bonn, Germany. MAY 2023 1-4 May (Monday-Thursday): Arabian Travel Market, Dubai, UAE. 2-7 May (Tuesday-Sunday): Salon International de […]
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TODAY: The IFC has greenlit a green loan worth EUR 100 mn for OCP’s solar plants
Good morning, wonderful people. It’s a busy start to the week and we have updates from all over the region. Let’s jump right in. THE BIG CLIMATE STORIES- The International Finance Corporation approved a green loan worth EUR 100 mn to Moroccan state-owned fertilizer and phosphate giant OCP Group to help finance the development of […]