Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming global water management, with the market projected to reach $53.85 billion by 2032. Utilities are deploying AI-driven systems to optimise water distribution, reduce losses, and strengthen infrastructure resilience.
Nigeria’s biodiversity is facing an accelerating decline, threatening ecosystems that support livelihoods, climate resilience, and food security.
Global investment in the energy transition reached $2.3 trillion in 2025, signalling continued momentum despite slowing growth. Policy uncertainty, higher financing costs, and supply chain constraints tempered expansion across key clean energy sectors.
Kenya has launched a national carbon registry to enhance transparency, credibility, and investment confidence in climate finance markets.
Nigeria and emerging economies are intensifying calls for structural reforms to the global financial system to address inequality and climate financing gaps.
Artificial intelligence is emerging as a defining force in shaping corporate sustainability strategies globally. PwC identifies 2026 as a critical turning point when AI adoption is going to significantly accelerate the integration of ESG, risk management, and climate reporting.
Africa’s solar expansion is accelerating despite the withdrawal of $9.7 billion in U.S. energy transition funding.
Climate shocks are exposing insurance as Africa’s overlooked ESG frontline defence mechanism. As floods, industrial accidents, and environmental liabilities increase, insurers are shifting from passive risk bearers to active sustainability enforcers. Experts warn that firms ignoring ESG risks face higher premiums, reduced coverage, and growing financial vulnerability in Nigeria’s evolving regulatory landscape.
Nigeria’s green economy is no longer an abstract promise for 25 young Lagosians; it is a timetable, a toolkit and a three‑month internship contract.
Nigeria’s new Executive Order 9 (EO9) is quietly redrawing the map of who controls every naira flowing from the country’s oilfields into public coffers.
Nigeria’s biodiversity crisis is unfolding faster than its media can keep up with. A decade-long analysis of 967 stories reveals that while biodiversity appears regularly in news cycles, most coverage remains reactive, event-driven, and detached from deeper governance failures and economic drivers.
Nigeria’s third Voluntary National Review reveals a development paradox: ambitious reforms and institutional progress are advancing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); however, poverty, food insecurity, and climate vulnerability continue to deepen structural risks.
Africa’s solar market has entered its fastest growth phase on record, with 2025 installations rising 54% to about 4.5 GW and solar now capturing the bulk of renewable‑energy capital on the continent.
Africa’s energy transition is increasingly being defined not by large grid expansions but by circular innovation, where repurposed batteries, solar microgrids, and local capacity building are reshaping ESG compliance and corporate integrity.
Global payroll has evolved from a back-office function to a strategic pillar shaping trust, compliance, and talent competitiveness worldwide.
Smaller artificial intelligence models are emerging as a practical pathway for developing countries to accelerate economic growth, improve public services, and strengthen digital sovereignty.
Africa’s economic future will be shaped less by natural resources and more by how effectively it builds, measures and deploys its human capital.
Private equity, infrastructure capital and alternative assets are rapidly reshaping global finance as traditional portfolio models falter under inflation, geopolitical volatility and rising interest rates.
Global growth remains resilient, but underlying risks—from slowing trade to volatile commodity markets—are reshaping the outlook for emerging economies. The World Bank warns that rising long-term yields, moderating trade volumes, and fragile financial sentiment could increase debt burdens and weaken investment momentum.
Africa’s energy transition has entered a decisive acceleration phase, enabled by innovative climate finance mechanisms that are reshaping capital flows, infrastructure deployment and economic transformation.
Africa stands at a decisive geopolitical and economic turning point. Declining foreign aid, rising global competition, and shifting power dynamics are forcing the continent to redefine its development model, moving from dependency toward self-determined growth.
Africa’s next economic transformation will not be driven entirely by aid or external financing, but by integration, digital innovation and new financing architectures such as tokenisation.
Africa stands at the centre of the global renewable energy transformation; however, it remains far behind in deployment relative to its potential.
The global economy is undergoing a quiet but profound shift. Long-term growth, the engine of jobs, prosperity, and development, is slowing across regions, threatening the ability of emerging economies, especially in Africa, to close income gaps and finance climate and infrastructure transitions.
Africa’s development future is increasingly tied to its ability to mobilise its own resources rather than rely on shrinking foreign aid.
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.
