Battery storage is rapidly replacing diesel generators across African energy systems. Rising fuel costs, climate pressures, and falling battery prices brought about the shift.
Kenya and Morocco are opening their electricity grids to prosumers, individuals and businesses that both produce and consume power.
South Africa plans to double electricity imports from DR Congo’s hydropower resources. The move comes as the country seeks to stabilise supply and reduce reliance on coal.
University College Dublin (UCD) will lead a €5.7 million national AI centre focused on accelerating climate action. The initiative reflects growing recognition that data and artificial intelligence are central to solving climate challenges.
The European Commission has approved a €5 billion Danish offshore wind scheme to accelerate the deployment of large-scale renewable energy.
The UN-Water and UNESCO report reframes the global water crisis as a failure of governance and equity, rather than merely a resource shortage. Financing gaps, gender inequalities, and weak institutions continue to undermine access.
Indonesia’s Just Transition policy is ambitious, linking decarbonisation with jobs, equity, and growth, but its implementation reveals structural cracks. Governance instability, weak social financing, and fragmented policy execution threaten delivery.
The Trump administration has approved reimbursement for TotalEnergies to exit U.S. offshore wind projects, redirecting capital toward fossil fuel investments.
Global warming is no longer just rising; it is accelerating, according to new scientific analysis. The implications extend beyond climate science into economic resilience, policy urgency, and development pathways, especially for Africa.
African companies are increasingly being asked to decarbonise operations, strengthen climate resilience and reduce pressure on nature, often from the same balance sheet.
African companies are under growing pressure to treat sustainability as a management system, not a reporting appendix.
Cassava feeds over 500 million people and anchors food systems across Africa; however, its global scientific footprint tells a different story.
Unused medicines are quietly accumulating in households, farms, and hospitals, creating an invisible but escalating environmental threat.
South Africa’s 2026 Budget is not branded as a “green budget”, but its sustainability signal runs deeper.
Feeding 10 billion people by 2050 is no longer just a question of land or yield; it is fundamentally about water.
As climate disclosure requirements increase and buyers ask harder questions, companies are discovering that not all carbon metrics are interchangeable.
The Sustainable Development Goals are often read as 17 separate promises. However, the real story is how governance, society, the economy and environment rise or fall together.
Nigeria’s financial system is undergoing a structural shift as sustainability reporting moves from voluntary signalling to regulatory expectation.
Across African boardrooms, a new question is reshaping finance: can ESG move from box-ticking cost to value-creating strategy for CFOs?
The UN-Water and UNESCO report reframes the global water crisis as a failure of governance and equity, rather than merely a resource shortage. Financing gaps, gender inequalities, and weak institutions continue to undermine access.
Indonesia’s Just Transition policy is ambitious, linking decarbonisation with jobs, equity, and growth, but its implementation reveals structural cracks. Governance instability, weak social financing, and fragmented policy execution threaten delivery.
Malawi’s reform moment has arrived under pressure, not prosperity. With inflation near 30%, exports shrinking and reserves critically low, the country faces a narrowing window to restore macroeconomic credibility.
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.
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.
