On Monday, November 30th nearly 150 heads of states gathered in Paris for the opening of the 21^st Conference of Parties (COP21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

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ACTS has been ranked 22^nd in the Top Science and Technology Think Tanks worldwide by the 2014 Global Go To Think Tanks report published by the University of Pennsylvania. Additionally, ACTS was also ranked 46^th in the Top Environment Think Tanks category and 91^st in the Top Think Tanks Worldwide (Non-U.S.) category.

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Teaching innovation in universities would show future leaders that it’s about more than R&D, says Rebecca Hanlin.

Innovation is a hot topic these days in Africa. The success of African innovation and enterprise is increasingly recognised - examples include the mobile money-transfer service M-PESA for banking, bladeless wind turbines for energy and improved crop management mechanisms such as planting pits (‘zai’) for agriculture, to name just three sectors.

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The ACTS inconjunction with WaterCap will co -host the 7^th edition of the water dialogue on 26^th June, 2014 at Strathmore Business School.

The theme is ‘Water Innovations and Entrepreneurship Research from Kenya' by Prof Nzula  Kitaka.

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Keynote Speaker - Dr. Kevit Desai - Chairman LIWA (Linking Industry With Academia) Kenya Trust

This event is free and open to all.

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Kenya receives 4 – 6 kWh per square meter of insolation per day. This is equivalent to 250 Mtoe per day. Despite this potential, only a small portion is harnessed and converted into utilizable forms.

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