Report: Clean technology holds key to rapid African development

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Study finds low carbon technology is the fastest route to development for the 70 per cent of sub-Saharan Africans without energy access

Renewable energy and other clean technologies are set to play a key role in accelerating development in sub-Saharan Africa and other developing regions, creating a multi-billion dollar economic opportunity...

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