The African Development Bank and Morocco’s Fonds d’équipement communal have signed a second €150 million municipal-development financing agreement.
A modelling study says a sugary-drink tax that raises prices by 20% could prevent hundreds of thousands of disease cases in Egypt.
The African Development Bank has approved a €100 million loan to Gotion Power Morocco for an integrated gigafactory for lithium iron phosphate batteries.
The African Development Bank and Biovac have signed a financing agreement of up to $15 million for a new multi-vaccine facility in Cape Town.
She arrived to fix a station's books and stayed to rewrite its identity. Adedoja Allen, the first woman to lead a Nigerian electronic media platform, turned a debt-ridden broadcaster into Lagos's number one lifestyle station.
Climate damage and the net-zero transition are beginning to alter inflation, growth and the choices facing central banks, according to two NGFS reports.
Nigeria needs roughly ten times its current annual power-sector investment to close its electricity gap and support industry, Sadiq Wanka said.
Sahara Group has urged African journalists to test imported assumptions and explain the trade-offs shaping the continent's energy transition.
Sustainability responsibility must move beyond specialist teams and into the offices that allocate capital, value assets and manage enterprise risk, ISSB chair Emmanuel Faber has said.
Climate change and the net-zero transition are increasingly shaping inflation, output and the trade-offs confronting monetary policymakers, two NGFS reports have warned.
Rainfall, temperature and vegetation shape malaria transmission across sub-Saharan Africa in delayed, nonlinear ways, a major multi-country study has found.
Human-rights abuse allegations linked to African transition-mineral mines rose 122% to 100 cases in 2025, according to the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre.
Residential services platforms have spent years buying businesses, centralising functions and installing field-service software. West Monroe argues that those tools are now table stakes, rather than a durable advantage.
Nearly two-thirds of mining and metals facilities face high exposure to at least one physical water-risk indicator, according to a new ICMM dataset covering 12,000 facilities.
Enterprise SaaS mergers and acquisitions reached a record $292.7 billion in Q1 2026, according to PitchBook. One transaction, the $250 billion SpaceX acquisition of xAI, created most of that record.
A barrel of crude oil is about 159 litres; however, refining turns it into fuels, petrochemical feedstocks, asphalt, lubricants and other products woven through everyday economic life.
More than 1,500 commercial ships stranded around the Strait of Hormuz may be accumulating marine organisms on their hulls. When trade resumes, those vessels could disperse invasive species through a highly connected port network.
Global climate finance has reached historic levels, yet only a small share reaches Africa. The missing link is increasingly institutional: projects are scattered, governance is weak, and pipelines are rarely investment-ready.
A budget is not cost control. It is the starting hypothesis against which scope, time, resources and risk must be managed. A 2026 project cost guide sets out four steps: plan resources, estimate costs, determine the budget and control spending.
Waiting for ideal funding, perfect certainty or complete support can become a respectable form of inaction.
Several IFRS amendments became effective on 1 January 2026, while IFRS 18 will replace IAS 1 from 2027 and require the preceding-year comparative amounts. That makes 2026 an implementation year, not a waiting period.
Global private capital fundraising fell 13.3% in 2025 to $1.254 trillion, extending a reset shaped by weak distributions and investor caution. Real assets and secondaries moved against the decline.
Nature-related reporting has moved quickly from specialist discussion to a market practice backed by organisations representing more than $20 trillion in assets under management.

Africa’s energy transition is often framed as a financing challenge. While capital remains essential, it cannot compensate for weak governance, poor stakeholder engagement or businesses that fail to earn public trust. ESG is no longer a corporate buzzword; it is becoming a strategic advantage for African energy companies seeking to attract investment and deliver sustainable growth.
Deloitte's Bridging the Climate Finance Gap report (January 2026) flags a critical figure: $472 billion, the maximum annual sum Article 6-enabled, harmonised carbon markets could deliver by 2035.
The WEF's June 2026 report identifies five tailwinds and five headwinds shaping the Regenerative Blue Economy. For Africa, the message is urgent: today's choices could unlock trillion-dollar regenerative industries, or entrench decline for ecosystems supporting hundreds of millions.
Over 600 million Africans live in cities facing rising temperatures, rapid urbanisation, and strained electricity grids. Growing demand for cooling is driving a surge in individual air conditioners, worsening peak-load stress, urban heat islands, and household energy costs.

Africa’s climate and development story is still too often framed elsewhere, through crisis, compliance and risk, while African evidence, innovators and communities remain supporting characters.

Global business has not retreated from sustainability: 92% of leaders expect competitive advantage, while 89% maintained or increased climate-related investment.
Summary and evidence-based insights into corporate, government, and organisational sustainability disclosures across Africa, highlighting achievements, uncovering gaps, and spotlight opportunities for progress.