Africa’s financial sector must cope with climate risk for smooth transition to Net Zero: Report

At least 49 banks in Africa have over $200 billion in lending across sectors with high-potential climate risks  

Switch to renewables can grow Africa’s economy by 6.4% in 2050: IRENA

Energy-efficiency investments have the potential to create more than 5.2 million jobs between 2019 and 2030 in Africa

‘Developed countries need to double funding to Africa for adaptation to climate change’

Summit discussed Africa's COP 27 agenda; Calls for flowing funds to continent's Adaptation Acceleration Program

Africa climate programme to benefit 5.4 million small-scale farmers in Sahel

The programme aims to restore degraded land, provide climate information systems and agricultural insurance

Africa's waste challenge

For Africa, solid waste management is becoming a major concern. The writer reports from Zanzibar and Swaziland on how two contrasting scenarios …

African economies to grow by 4.5 per cent in 2015

Modernising local economies will be the key to improving living standard of the people, says report

Bonds for a cause

World Bank and African development bank raise funds through financial bonds to meet Caribbean catastrophes and reduce African poverty

Independence is at the heart of the African Development Bank’s ability to be effective

African Development Bank was first and only organisation to offer support to regional member countries’ effort at managing COVID-19 crisis

Africa meet to focus on innovation and knowledge sharing

Speakers at the upcoming African Economic Conference will explore how Africa can achieve inclusive growth

African ministers call for universal climate agreement

Africa, with its vulnerable communities and vast potential, has perhaps the most to lose from climate change and the most to gain from an …

World bodies to push for bringing Africa into carbon trade net

African Carbon Forum meet an opportunity to review progress on climate change mitigation in the continent'

GM or organic: The choice before African nations

An African Development Bank report pushes for GM technologies for achieving food security, while some African nations are showing the way with …

‘Disasters like Ebola threaten Africa’s progress towards MDGs’

Report launched at the ninth African Economic Conference says the continent made headway in human development but its continuation is threatened …

Development banks, industry say they are climate ready

Multilateral development banks reaffirm their pledge to boost climate financing ahead of Ban Ki-moon’s Climate Summit; a report says big …

Is Urbanisation the best way to preserve the African environment?

A new report seems to suggest so

A Bang for the Buck: Leveraging flexible seed money to improve impact

A mix of integrated financial approaches is needed to bring about transformative change

Seychelles gets ambitious with its waste

Government unveils master sanitation plan to protect environment

Resource mobilisation can help Africa be self-sufficient

African Development Forum discusses ways to reduce dependence on foreign donors