Africa is emerging as the next frontier for solar manufacturing and deployment. Structural shifts in global supply chains and rising demand for clean power are accelerating investment.
Africa’s policy voice is gaining institutional weight through new trilateral cooperation frameworks. A strategic agreement linking African, Chinese and Canadian policy institutions reflects growing demand for coordinated ESG governance.
Africa’s renewable energy expansion is entering a new industrial phase. Gigascale projects are accelerating across solar, wind and grid infrastructure markets. The shift signals a structural transformation in energy supply, investment flows and economic competitiveness.
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.
In markets from Lagos to Nairobi, Africa’s waste is quietly becoming a new form of capital. Plastic bottles, discarded electronics, and food waste, once symbols of environmental strain, are increasingly becoming inputs for new industries, opportunities for job creation, and exports.
In rural northern Nigeria, nightfall still means darkness for millions of households. Without reliable electricity, businesses stall, students struggle to study, and clinics rely on costly diesel generators. This energy gap shapes daily life across much of Africa.
In a crowded classroom in northern Ghana, 10-year-old Kwame struggles to read a basic sentence. His teacher worries, not just about his future, but about the country’s economic prospects. Without foundational skills, children like Kwame face limited opportunities in adulthood.
In Addis Ababa’s industrial corridors, textile factories generate tonnes of waste fabric every week. For years, most of it was discarded. Today, Ethiopia sees this waste differently, not as a cost, but as a potential economic asset.
In Ogale, Rivers State, families once relied on streams teeming with fish. Today, polluted waters force them to buy drinking water and imported food.
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.
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.
