UNEP Ranks Africa Lowest in Clean Energy

{{With an already significant impact of climate change like floods, drought and erratic rainfall, one would expect the Africa to be at the forefront of producing energy efficient and clean energy technologies but the continent is yet to come up with technologies that are climate friendly.}}

According to a May 2013 United nations Environment Programme (Unep) study ‘Patents and clean energy technologies in Africa’ the continent has the least level of technology development with less than one per cent of all patent applications relating to Clean Energy Technologies coming from Africa.

South Africa tops the list of Africa’s leading inventor countries with 82.4 per cent of the applications filed in Africa, followed by Egypt with 2.8 per cent. Kenya and Burundi are the only East African countries that feature on the list with 1.2 per cent and 0.9 per cent respectively.