The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is moving to repeal its 2024 climate disclosure rules. The reversal matters because the rules had aimed to make climate risks more consistent in public-company filings.
Round-the-clock renewable power is becoming commercially viable as solar, wind, and batteries combine to deliver better electricity.
The European Commission has released revised sustainability reporting standards that cut the total number of ESRS data points by more than 70%.
Copperbelt Energy Corporation is accelerating one of Zambia’s largest private-sector renewable-energy expansions.
Angola and Zambia have launched record solar projects, signalling a new phase in Africa’s clean-energy buildout.
The African Development Bank has approved a $61 million package for the Development Bank of Nigeria.
Montage Gold plans to combine grid electricity with a 22 MWp solar plant at its Koné gold project in Côte d’Ivoire.
IFC and Norfund are backing a new Nigerian off-grid electricity programme. The initiative targets nearly 500,000 households and businesses in underserved communities.
Kenya has lifted water access to about 70%, but sanitation remains the harder test: low sewer coverage, underfunded utilities, climate pressure and weak project preparation.
The Gambia’s clean energy transition is moving beyond panels and power lines. A new AfDB-backed report argues that women must become leaders, investors, technicians and entrepreneurs in renewable energy.
Africa’s cities are on the frontline of climate risk, where floods, droughts and heatwaves now threaten roads, homes, health systems and livelihoods.
Africa’s new Water Vision 2063 treats water not as a sector issue, but as the foundation for growth, sanitation, food security, jobs and peace.
Nigeria’s fiscal story has taken a sharp turn: subsidy cuts, tax reforms and higher revenues are now colliding with rising debt service, expensive borrowing and household pressure.
Disasters are no longer temporary shocks to agriculture. They are becoming a structural threat to food security, rural livelihoods and national development.
Africa’s next growth story may not be written only in oil, minerals or labour, but in data, artificial intelligence and frontier technologies.
Nearly 600 million people in sub-Saharan Africa still live without electricity, making access to power one of the continent’s defining development tests.
Comoros is trying to turn climate vulnerability into an investment plan, using a UNECA and UNCTAD-backed roadmap to strengthen governance, build bankable projects and widen access to external climate finance.
Africa’s food-security crisis is no longer only about harvests, imports or rainfall. It is now a financing story, with hunger rising as public budgets tighten, climate shocks intensify, and food prices outpace household incomes.
Sub-Saharan Africa entered 2026 with its strongest growth in a decade, lower inflation and improving fiscal positions.
Nigeria’s first Nigerian Corporate Sustainability Report and Sustainability Index show a split market: a small circle of ESG‑ready leaders and a long tail of silent reporters.
Nigeria's proposed Petroleum Industry Act (Amendment) Bill 2025 seeks to transfer the government's representative role in upstream oil contracts from NNPC Limited to the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), making the sector's primary regulator its own commercial counterparty.
A Lagos High Court has ruled that Meta Platforms Inc., operator of Facebook, is jointly liable as a data controller for a false, health-related video posted by a third party, awarding $25,000 to human rights lawyer Femi Falana, SAN.
Nigeria holds N29.43 trillion in pension assets yet channels under 1% into infrastructure, even as the country faces an estimated $878 billion investment gap through 2040.
African and emerging markets are entering a new carbon-market era with Article 6 largely settled; however, it is not yet safely governed.
Africa’s democracy debate is no longer about whether citizens still value democratic rule. It is about why support for democracy remains high while democratic outcomes, in many countries, remain fragile, uneven, or in retreat.
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.
