Covid-19 and the war in Ukraine have ushered in skyrocketing inflation and a low-growth, low-investment era, but a focus on the present could obscure the risks of longer-term threats.
A recent report by the Global Center on Adaptation shows that financing adaptation to climate change will be more cost-effective than paying for increasingly frequent and severe crises response.
A historic agreement at Cop27 to compensate African nations for climate change loss and damage is welcome, but much more adaptation and mitigation finance is required.
The push for renewables offers Africa a chance to extricate itself from colonial economic models – but how can the continent achieve this? Kwame Ofori Appiah looks at the possibilities, the barriers and what the Africa Finance Corporation can offer.
Delegates at “Africa’s Cop” in Sharm El-Sheikh welcomed a rich world plan to fund loss and damage recovery for developing nations but rued a lack of breakthrough on binding global emissions targets.
Presidential candidate Bola Ahmed Tinubu's plan to return Nigeria's oil production to 2.6m barrels per day flies in the face of global decarbonisation and market dynamics, say critics.
The ClimaTech Run competition recognised African climate tech, but closing the capital gap for African green startups will require a radical shift in funding priorities.
