Dolly Parton has died aged 80, leaving a legacy that reached far beyond music into vaccine research, literacy and public health. Her philanthropy showed how a trusted cultural voice can help science travel further than institutions often can alone.
Australia is consulting on whether to delay or narrow tougher assurance requirements under its mandatory climate-reporting regime. The review aims to reduce compliance costs, particularly around immature Scope 3 data and supplier requests, without weakening confidence.
South Africa's major telecom operators lost R198.9 million to subscription fraud in the year to April 2026. Cases rose 307% to 14,897 even as the average loss per incident fell sharply, showing fraud is scaling through volume.
Uade Ahimie has urged Nigerian companies to treat ESG reporting as essential business evidence rather than optional corporate communication.
Burundi, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Republic of the Congo and Uganda have interrupted transmission linked to poliovirus type 2 outbreaks. Independent assessments confirmed the closures after reviewing surveillance, laboratory, epidemiological and vaccination evidence.
African health ministers have endorsed a plan to add and retain three million health workers by 2035. The agenda responds to a region with only 46% of its required workforce, even as about one million trained professionals remain unemployed.
A systematic review has linked extreme heat with illness and death in disadvantaged urban communities across Africa. Only 21 eligible studies were found, concentrated mainly in South Africa, Kenya and Tanzania, with none from Francophone or Lusophone countries.
Kenyan corporate, finance and professional-services leaders are moving to establish a National Working Group on ESG and investment readiness. The initiative seeks to make sustainability and governance evidence more credible, consistent and useful for capital and market decisions.
WHO has declared Uganda’s Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak over after 42 days without a new confirmed case. Uganda recorded 20 cases and two deaths, but neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo had surpassed 5,600 cases and 2,700 deaths by August 25.
Women in Malawi’s Zomba District are moving from climate vulnerability to leadership through solar-powered water, storage, savings groups and decision-making forums.
A drone-based disaster-management programme helped Mozambique’s Marracuene district locate families, map damaged roads and direct rescuers during severe floods.
Morocco’s Universal Healthy Brain Centre is helping children with autism and other neurodevelopmental conditions receive personalised, multidisciplinary support.
Morocco entered 2026 with its strongest growth cycle in more than a decade, but the next stage depends on productivity, not infrastructure spending alone.
Corporate AI use is expanding faster than the systems designed to measure its climate impact. Published estimates can differ by orders of magnitude because providers disclose little and researchers count different parts of the computing stack.
Nigeria’s kidnap crisis has entered a more dangerous economic phase. Between July 2025 and June 2026, recorded ransom payments more than tripled to N7.78 billion, even as total demands fell.
Human-elephant conflict across a Southern African transboundary landscape is projected to expand sharply through 2085 as population growth, cropland and built areas press further into elephant ranges.
Infrastructure projects do not fail to be agile simply because teams move slowly. They struggle when procurement, governance, regulation and stakeholder decisions are treated as interruptions rather than part of delivery.
Only 36% of assessable SDG targets are on track or making moderate progress, while 15% have fallen below 2015 baselines.
Liberia's proposed 2026 satellite communications guidelines would place landing rights, space-segment filings and earth-segment services inside one national licensing system.
Land degradation and drought are growing faster than the finance designed to prevent them. A new implementation playbook argues that the problem is no longer a shortage of workable models.
Permanent removals can help Europe reach net zero. However, admitting them into a compliance market could also let emitters delay harder cuts.
Europe's next carbon market reset will decide whether scarcity accelerates real decarbonisation or opens new compliance routes.
IRENA's six power-system case studies show digital tools are increasing solar output, preventing grid failures and unlocking transmission capacity without waiting years for new lines.
Africa is advancing on 12 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals; however, only 2 of 46 measurable targets reviewed in the 2025 Africa Sustainable Development Report are on track to meet the 2030 objectives.
By 2050, one in four people globally will be African, and the continent’s working-age population is expected to double.
Most African migrants do not leave the continent. In 2024, 25.1 million lived elsewhere in Africa, compared with 20.7 million outside it; Africa’s newest labour statistics also show a workforce that is young, mobile and concentrated in regional economies.
The Insurance Sector Strengthening Program (ISSP) is a five-year initiative fully endorsed by NAICOM and being developed with the Commission’s team to expand insurance access, strengthen professional capacity and bring women, young people and MSMEs into Nigeria’s risk-protection system
Africa's ESG storytelling crisis isn't a lack of ambition; it's a lack of trained hands to tell the continent's own sustainability story on its own terms.
Denmark and its Nordic peers have built a credible record in African development finance, climate investment, humanitarian support and institution-building. Their next test is not whether more money reaches the continent, but whether African communities shape what that money builds.
The Future Action Summit (FAS) Thailand 2025, organized by the global youth-led organization Echo Change, is a four-day international summit distinct from the UN's "Summit of the Future" that convened in September 2024. FAS Thailand is specifically designed as a launchpad for youth-led action, driving tangible progress towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
New York City hosts the UNGA High-Level Week and Global Goals Week, bringing together world leaders, civil society, business, academia, and youth with a unified focus on accelerating progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and fostering a more sustainable future.
ICSD 2025 brings together global experts to align research, policy, and practice around key SDGs. Focused on interdisciplinary solutions, with emphasis on education and capacity and building for sustainable progress by 2030.
The largest global climate convening of the year, aligning with UNGA 80 and Global Goals Week to accelerate climate solutions through over 900 events; with an am of shifting climate discourse from problem awareness to practical implementation, emphasising economic opportunity, innovation, and cross-sector collaboration.
A quadrennial global gathering of conservation leaders, policy‑makers, Indigenous Peoples, and innovators, convening to shape the global nature agenda through bold themes, science, equity, and collective action.
A premier annual gathering in Berlin, bringing together global leaders across politics, science, business, and civil society to shape the future of health under the theme “Taking Responsibility for Health in a Fragmenting World.”
A dynamic one-day festival uniting global innovators and leaders in Vienna to showcase and accelerate climate‑tech solutions—from startups to researchers—culminating in the Climate Launchpad 2025 Global Grand Final.
Bringing together Africa’s sustainability ecosystem. This hybrid gathering is tailored for policymakers, investors, corporate leaders, and NGOs, focusing on ESG frameworks, climate finance, and sustainable innovation to drive Africa’s green transition.
Summary and evidence-based insights into corporate, government, and organisational sustainability disclosures across Africa, highlighting achievements, uncovering gaps, and spotlight opportunities for progress.
