OPINION/EDITORIAL

How We Achieve the Energy Future Africa Needs

December 1, 2023 By Nadja Haakansson, Managing Director of Africa at Siemens Energy In 2022, global emissions reached a record high of 36.8 billion tons of CO2. During 2023 several months broke global warming records and scientists at the European Union’s climate change service are now forecasting that it could […]

The AI Awakening

(Credit: Jun Cen) November 30, 2023/IMFBlog By Gita Bhatt Full disclosure: This issue of Finance & Development was produced entirely with human intelligence. But someday soon at least parts of this magazine may be assisted by artificial intelligence—a topic that has dominated global discourse since ChatGPT’s introduction one year ago. Generative AI has introduced tantalizing […]

Natural Gas Is Key to a Just African Energy Transition

Image Credit: AEC November 30, 2023 By NJ Ayuk, Executive Chairman, African Energy Chamber It would be an understatement to say Tanzania’s Songo Songo gas field has been good for the country and its citizens. Since 2004, the project’s output has been put to work to benefit the Tanzanian economy, […]