Actis and Mainstream Renewable Power have sold Lekela Power to the Infinity Group of Egypt and the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC). With an installed wind power capacity of 1 GW, Lekela Power is Africa’s largest pure-play renewable energy independent power…
Partnerships: Impacting Africa beyond COVID-19 pandemic to achieve SDGs
By Fabian Ekeruche, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) When the United Nations (UN) adopted the Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs) in 2015, it did not prefigure that a devastating COVID-19 pandemic will emerge few years later to become a clog in the…
NDC Partnership provides developing countries with enhanced financing tools to ramp up implementation of climate measures
Developing countries will access new climate funding and finance tools to address climate change, thanks to a Finance Strategy launched by the NDC Partnership in Montego Bay, Jamaica. The Most Honourable Andrew Holness, Prime Minister of Jamaica, launched the new Strategy with…
Sustainable Innovation Forum seeks effective delivery of high level commitments by world leaders on Day 1.
Following a week of significant progress at the COP26 summit in Glasgow, the Sustainable Innovation Forum in the Climate Action Innovation Zone opened Monday with three days of discussion focused on how high-level commitments made by world leaders can be…
Group launches campaign for COP26: Climate Finance for Women in Africa
Activities to frontline issues concerning women access to climate finance has been given a huge boost as the Centre for 21st century Issues (C21st), a not-for-profit/non-governmental organization headquartered in Nigeria recently launched its advocacy campaign on Women for Climate Finance,…
Partnership opens Call for women-led climate solutions in Nigeria
The Centre for 21st century Issues (C21st) with support from BothEnds, Netherlands, have opened calls for project proposals on women-led climate solutions initiative across Nigeria; to mitigate climate related challenges. In a statement credited to the group; in a world…
Matt Damon and Gary White, Co-Founders of Water.org and WaterEquity join Reuters Impact Speaker line-up
MOBILIZING GLOBAL BUSINESS TO DELIVER ON CLIMATE ACTION Reuters Impact has received a major boost as the Duo of Matt Damon, (the Jason Bourne series actor) and Gary White have confirmed their acceptance to speak at the Virtual Forum set…
Sempra Launches Sustainable Financing Framework Aligned With Company’s ESG Initiatives
Aug. 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Sempra (NYSE: SRE) (BMV: SRE) today published its Sustainable Financing Framework, outlining its criteria and other parameters for any issuances by Sempra, San Diego Gas & Electric Co. (SDG&E) or Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) of sustainable financing…
Experts insist Banks must partner with fintech to accelerate the digital banking transformation
In a webinar discussion hosted by TagPay and moderated by Omar Ben Yedder from African Banker; Yves Eonnet (TagPay), Djiba Diallo (Ecobank Group), Obinna Ukwuani (Bank of Kigali) and Carl Manlan (VISA), discussed how the digitalisation of banks is a…
Mark Carney, UN Race to Zero campaign, COP26 Presidency launch Net Zero Financial Alliance
Press Release: Industry-led and UN-convened Net Zero Banking Alliance also announced today, co-launched by the UNEP Finance Initiative and the Financial Services Taskforce of the Sustainable Markets Initiative The Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), chaired by Mark Carney,…
