Cape Verde Plans to Run on 100% Renewables by 2020
The island nation of Cape Verde has pledged to power the entire country with nothing but renewable energy by the year 2020, and vowed to help other African states work towards the same goal in future.
With almost no mineral resources of its own and little arable farmland, the outcrop in the middle of the Atlantic ocean relies on expensive imports for almost all the needs of its 550,000 population.
But there are two things it does have in abundance: sun and wind.
Beatrice Tiberi