Category: Environment & Sustainability

Sydney, Australia – Until recently, Rosco Jewell sold about one used electric vehicle every two months on his online marketplace, Amazing EV.

Amman, Jordan// — The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), has signed a Joint Statement of Intent with the Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD) (https://ICD-PS.org) and the Islamic Corporation for the Insurance of Investment and Export Credit (ICIEC) —both members of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group—introducing a new blended finance […]

UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) have launched a new partnership to accelerate the transition toward more sustainable, resilient and inclusive global maritime transport.

Abidjan, Ivory Coast// — Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) (www.AfricaFC.org), the continent’s leading infrastructure solutions provider, has reached financial close and disbursed €43 million under the Poro Power Green Bond, the first project finance green bond in Cote d’Ivoire and the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU).

In the quiet evenings in Ablekuma-Fanmilk, a suburb in Ghana’s Greater Accra Region, thirteen-year-old Abdul Latif and his younger brother, Ali, walk from house to house carrying a small sack.

Ashanti region’s water security is facing a growing threat as two of the main treatment plants supplying the Greater Kumasi metropolis are gradually being choked by silt and heavy pollution of plastics.

Used and discarded indiscriminately, plastics often end up in gutters, on street corners, or burning in red-lit heaps at night. But inside the Material Recovery Facility in Accra, the same plastic is handled with care.

As countries scramble to secure the minerals needed for clean energy, digital technologies, AI, and defense industries, the new era of resource competition implies both great promise and grave peril. Transparency is essential to ensure that producer countries are not left poorer, more divided, and more indebted than before. AUCKLAND/MONROVIA – With the global order […]

Andrew King, The University of Melbourne It’s no secret our planet is heating up.

As global energy markets reel from renewed conflict in the Middle East, Africa can no longer afford to ignore the link between fossil fuel dependence and economic vulnerability.