01/26/2021
Due to the success of the structure, Norfund the Norwegian Investment Fund for Developing Countries have agreed to become a co-senior lender and to provide BLK1 with USD 15 million of additional senior debt which will enable the expansion of the receivabl
01/26/2021
The OECD will publish Effective Carbon Rates 2021
01/25/2021
EBRD joins call for more reporting of climate risk
01/21/2021
The panel covered discussion of British innovation and experience in the context of partnering with Africa to advance its economic development
01/15/2021
He stated that clean and renewable energy was the way to go for sustained power sector reforms in the country to hand over a prestigious legacy in the power sector for successive governments.
01/08/2021
QIA, one of the world’s biggest sovereign wealth funds, has stopped investing in fossil fuel companies and is focusing increasingly on the development of green technologies.
01/05/2021
The board of directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved $7 million to boost investment in green mini grids in Africa. This funding is being committed through the Sustainable Energy Facility for Africa (SEFA).
01/05/2021
South Africa has set the goals of reducing GHG emissions by 42% by 2025 and diversify its electricity production to reduce its reliance on coal-fired power by 2050.
12/23/2020
Natural capital is the stock of renewable and non-renewable natural resources, such as plants, animals, air, water, soils and minerals
12/17/2020
AfDB has announced a new $90million donation from Germany, Sweden, others for sustainable energy in Africa.
12/16/2020
Eskom, South Africa pushing for lower renewable energy prices
12/16/2020
It’s a sobering reminder that, five years after the landmark Paris Agreement on climate change was signed, we’re still worse off than we were back then, and our chances of reversing course keep getting slimmer.
12/14/2020
Emerging economies are much more vulnerable to rising global temperatures than their advanced counterparts.
12/11/2020
The bank justified its continuing financing of thermal coal extraction by saying most of Africa’s electricity is still generated by burning coal.
12/10/2020
S.African insurer Sanlam sees challenging environment ahead
The company said HEPS rose by 4% for the 10 months ending Oct. 31, with the operating environment improving since June as governments eased coronavirus curbs, supporting sales from Sanlam’s traditional life insurance distribution channels.
12/09/2020
The Bank's partnership with IRENA will support Africa's energy transition and our goal to achieve universal access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy in Africa by 2030." - Bank VP Kevin Kariuki
12/06/2020
The shortage has reached acute levels in many of the 20 High Impact Countries across Africa and Asia with the largest access gaps that the reports track using the latest available data from 2018, including Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopi
12/04/2020
The JSE Finance Sector constitutes 10 percent of the total market capitalisation of all JSE-listed companies, contributing 20 percent to gross domestic product and 15.6 percent to employment.
12/01/2020
Country performance is commonly expressed in GDP – but GDP numbers fail to reflect the underlying elements that shape the development of a country.
11/30/2020
These policy shifts will drive major changes in business across entire value chains from product design to production, distribution and recycling.