Download: Accelerating Mining Value Add Projects
Project Finance in Accelerating Mining Value Add Projects African government can potentially achieve increased economic benefits through Mining Value Add using beneficiation. Smelting and refining facilities would provide some employment opportunities, and there could be spillover benefits for related industries... Read More →
Harnessing Knowledge and Information to Transform Global Food Crisis Response
Tackling the severe global food crisis requires a giant leap in resources, over US$90 to US$120 billion per year according to the World Bank latest estiamtes. The first step in getting there is making greater use of the knowledge and... Read More →
Tripling Renewable Power and Doubling Energy Efficiency by 2030
Representing global perspectives within the renewable energy and climate change space, the report by the COP28 Presidency, IRENA and the Global Renewables Alliance (GRA) provides recommendations on the means to triple renewable power generation capacity and double the energy efficiency... Read More →
Removing Barriers for Green Hydrogen Deployment
According to IRENA’s World Energy Transition Outlook, hydrogen and its derivatives are projected to make up 14% of global total final energy consumption by 2050 in a world aiming to stay under a 1.5-degree temperature increase. The eighth meeting of... Read More →
Strategies to Strengthen Infrastructural Development in Africa’s Public Health Sector
Health Infrastructure Development in Africa According to Business Day, health infrastructure across the continent is unevenly distributed, with major gaps in the coverage of rural areas and often of poor quality. A third of Africans live more than two hours... Read More →
Key Solutions to Building a Better Food System
In an increasingly interconnected world, the imperative to build better food systems has taken center stage. The way we produce, distribute, and consume food has far-reaching consequences, touching upon matters of health, sustainability, economics, social equity, and even global security.... Read More →
Climate Technology: Which Technologies Will Help Us Fight Climate Change?
Climate change poses an ever-apparent challenge for life on our planet as we know it, but technology offers an exciting new opportunity to combat the global problem and create solutions to help us protect the planet. Which technologies will be... Read More →
The G20 and African Climate Finance
Climate Change, African Climate Finance & G20 COP27 has concluded with some progress having been made on issues that matter most to Africa. A breakthrough on loss and damage negotiations has been achieved (albeit limited), an additional $230 million has... Read More →
How Insurance Can Help Mobilize Blended Finance for Projects in Africa
Blended Finance for African Projects Blended finance — the process of structuring and combining public and private capital in order to facilitate investment — is a common theme in Africa. Project developers and development finance institutions (DFIs) are constantly looking... Read More →
Financing Mining & Metals Projects in Africa in 2023
Financing new mines is and always has been a risky business. Long project timelines, price volatility, navigating political conditions, ESG risks and more are now colliding with rising interest rates and fears of a global economic downturn.
