South Africa’s solar installations have surged to record levels, but the country’s factories remain largely idle. A wave of rooftop systems and utility-scale projects has eased power shortages, yet imported panels dominate supply chains, limiting domestic job creation.
Solar Alone Won’t Fix Africa’s Rising Business Energy Costs
Grasslands, the world’s overlooked carbon vaults, are disappearing nearly four times faster than forests, according to a new global study.
Ghana’s proposed 24-hour economy could reshape not only business productivity but also the financial trajectory of its national power utility.
African policymakers and investors have called for a decisive shift toward a circular economy and scaled-up green investment at the 2026 Africa Green Economy Summit.
Microsoft has signed a 1.8-million-ton carbon removal agreement to restore degraded African rainforest, marking one of the largest nature-based climate deals on the continent.
Africa’s energy transition debate is shifting from ambition to accountability. At a high-level industry dialogue, leaders argued that governance reform and ESG credibility must anchor sustainable energy expansion.
Battery prices are falling faster than many energy planners anticipated, reshaping the economics of renewable power worldwide.
The World Bank’s Women, Business and the Law 2026 report shows that women still enjoy only about two-thirds of the economic rights men exercise in practice, despite a decade of legal reforms.
In an era of overlapping climate, debt, and security crises, IDA20 has become the quiet shock absorber for the world’s poorest economies, especially in Africa. But a new retrospective on its performance shows that stretching concessional finance is no longer enough.
Africa’s green transition is accelerating, but communities remain largely excluded from decision-making and finance flows.
Africa’s race into artificial intelligence is gathering pace, but leading policy thinkers warn that speed without sequencing could deepen inequality rather than accelerate development.
Africa’s creative industries are moving from cultural expression to economic strategy. Film, fashion, music, gaming, and digital media are reshaping export narratives and unlocking new job pathways for a rapidly urbanising youth population.
Developing economies are rueing a dual squeeze: rising debt burdens and escalating climate and development financing needs.
Solar and wind are expanding rapidly, but grids cannot rely only on the weather. A new analysis from the Clean Air Task Force argues that clean firm electricity, technologies capable of delivering power on demand without carbon emissions, will determine whether net-zero targets are credible.
Africa’s industrialisation challenge is inseparable from its energy question. An analysis from the Brookings Institution asks whether the continent should leapfrog fossil fuels altogether or adopt a transitional mix to power factories, processing zones, and value-added industries.
Nature loss is no longer an environmental footnote; it is a financial risk variable. In a forceful message to investors, David Attenborough has reframed biodiversity as a balance-sheet issue, arguing that ecosystems underpin economic value and long-term returns.
Across African cities and secondary towns, women are turning to digital platforms for income, flexibility, and financial autonomy.
The world has crossed six of nine planetary boundaries. However, prosperity and environmental protection need not remain in conflict.
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.
