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PUMA Energy Tanzania donates fuel to support coronavirus mitigation efforts
TANZANIA
PUMA Energy Tanzania has arranged to donate more than TZS100mn ($43,481) worth of motor fuel to the national government in order to sup- port efforts to contain the coronavirus (COVID- 19) pandemic.
The company marked the donation last week in a ceremony attended by Prime Minister Kas- sim Majaliwa, Health Minister Ummy Mwalimu and Deputy Health Minister Faustine Ndugulile. At the event, PUMA’s managing director, Dom- inic Dhanah, gave 100 pre-paid fuel cards to the prime minister, saying they could be used at PUMA filling stations by the drivers of ambu- lances and other official vehicles transporting doctors and medicines around the country.
“The donated fuel will be used to support transport efforts in the fight against COVID- 19,” he said.
Dhanah, who also chairs Tanzania’s national committee on the coronavirus, declared that his company was pleased to assist the government on this front. “COVID-19 is [a] global pandemic that cannot be left to the government alone to fight,” he said at the ceremony. “Responsible cor- porate citizens and well-meaning individuals need to support all initiatives and efforts of the
government, as we are all in this together.” Majaliwa responded by thanking Dhanah, saying he hoped private companies would follow PUMA Energy Tanzania’s example. The govern-
ment will welcome this type of support, he said. The PUMA chief went on to say that his company was taking steps to protect its employ- ees and customers during the public health emergency. All of PUMA’s filling stations have made soap and water available to the public for hand-washing, and the company provides masks
and gloves to its operators, he said.
Meanwhile, he stated, all of the firm’s offices
have adequate supplies of hand sanitiser. Addi- tionally, he said, PUMA’s offices and staff can- teens have introduced seating arrangements that keep staff members at least 2 metres away from each other.
PUMA is one of Tanzania’s leading retail sell- ers of refined petroleum products. Equity in the company is split 50:50 between the government and Puma Investments, which is itself owned by Angola’s national oil company (NOC) Sonan- gol and the Singapore-based commodity trader Trafigura.™
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Shell aims to carbon neutral by 2050
For society to achieve a 1.5° Celsius future, the world is likely to need to stop adding to the stock of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere
– a state known as net-zero emissions – by around 2060. Advanced parts of the world are likely to need to reach that point by 2050.
That is why Shell has set itself an ambition to become, by 2050 or sooner, a net-zero emissions energy business.
We will work towards this in three ways.
Firstly, by seeking to be net zero on all the emissions from the manufacture of all our products by 2050 at the latest.
This ambition includes the emissions created by our operations and also those associated with the energy we consume. These are known as scope one and two emissions.
But the bulk of the emissions are our
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customers’ emissions when they use our products, known as scope three emissions.
That is why Shell’s second step towards being a net-zero emissions energy business is to reduce the Net Carbon Footprint of our energy products.
To achieve this Shell will need to sell more products with a lower carbon intensity, such as renewable power, biofuels and hydrogen.
In 2017 Shell’s ambition was to be in step with a society working towards a well-below 2° Celsius future. Today Shell’s ambition is to be in step with a society working towards a 1.5° Celsius future. So we have raised our Net Carbon Footprint ambition.
Our long-term ambition is to reduce the Net Carbon Footprint of the energy products we sell by 65% by 2050, instead of 50%. Shell’s interim, medium-term, ambition is to reduce it by 30% by 2035, instead of 20%. Read more about our Net Carbon Footprint ambition here.
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Free electricity to cost Nigeria $310mn
Nigeria’s Electricity Distribution Companies (DISCOS) says it’ll cost NGN120bn ($310mn) to provide free electricity for Nigerians for two-months.
The Executive Director, Research and Advocacy, Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors, Sunday Oduntan disclosed
this on Sunrise, a programme on Channels Television on April 15.
The National Assembly had recently proposed two months of free electricity supply as a palliative for the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on Nigerian electricity consumers.
DISCOS had also announced its readiness to align with the government’s decision on the initiative, adding that the Federal Government would pay for the free energy to be supplied.
However, while speaking on the freebie
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