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Africa’s sustainability changemakers unite: YES ESG and Beyond Awards

ESG Africa Conference Africa’s sustainability changemakers unite: YES ESG and Beyond Awards

4 Jul 2025

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Kenyan eco-entrepreneur tackles food waste with sustainable solutions

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28 Oct 2024

Stepping up youth employability for jobs and better life chances

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#ActForSRHR digital campaign launches

11 Jul 2025

#AfricaMonth: How Sarah Collins, founder of Wonderbag, is changing lives globally

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Evan-Lee Courie 13 May 2025

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Droga5's Once Upon a Future campaign for the UN to engage the youth

4 Oct 2024

Pedestrians walk outside the Safaricom mobile phone customer care centre during the launch of its 5G internet service in the central business district of Nairobi, Kenya, 27 October 2022. Reuters/Monicah Mwangi/File Photo

Kenya's Safaricom raises $117m with local sustainability-linked loan

25 Sep 2024

Source: Islamic Development Bank Institute (IsDBI).

IsDBI unveils flagship Islamic finance marketplace

3 Jan 2024

Riham ElGizy, CEO of Regional Voluntary Carbon Market Company (RVCMC), speaks during a Reuters interview ahead of the voluntary auction of carbon credits, with projects in Kenya, Rwanda, Egypt and South Africa, at the auction in Nairobi, Kenya, 14 June 2023. Reuters/Thomas Mukoya

Saudi companies buy 2.2 million tonnes of carbon credits in Kenya auction

Duncan Miriri 15 Jun 2023

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Call for applications - Green Entrepreneurship Awards 2023

6 Mar 2023

Organisation of African Geological Surveys, AU sign MoU to promote development in Africa

Organisation of African Geological Surveys, AU sign MoU to promote development in Africa

9 Feb 2023

IFC launches roadmap to decarbonising the mining of critical minerals

IFC launches roadmap to decarbonising the mining of critical minerals

3 Feb 2023

ESG integration is required to promote a just energy transition in Africa

ESG integration is required to promote a just energy transition in Africa

Vincent Obisie-Orlu 26 Jan 2023

What does ESG mean? Two business scholars explain what environmental, social and governance standards and principles are

What does ESG mean? Two business scholars explain what environmental, social and governance standards and principles are

Luciana Echazú and Diego C. Nocetti 16 Jan 2023

Climate change: What a just transition means for Africa

Climate change: What a just transition means for Africa

Garth Napier 4 Nov 2022

L-R: Zingisa Motloba, founder and MD of Alchemy Africa and an advisory committee member of the IUCN, and Gabi Mkhatswa, senior manager for climate change and sustainable development at Eskom

#ESGAfricaConference: Why integrating the environmental and social components of ESG is key

Sindy Peters 3 Nov 2022

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Responsible Minerals Initiative cuts ITSCI from approved traceability list

Helen Reid 1 Nov 2022

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H&M Foundation on the lookout for sustainable fashion innovators

24 Oct 2022

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Are asset owners ready to finance a transition to net zero?

17 Oct 2022

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New WWF report makes case for circular plastics economy in Africa

18 Jul 2022

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Newly launched African Green Hydrogen Alliance aims to supercharge projects on the continent

30 May 2022

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Renewable energy continued to grow, gain momentum in 2021

4 May 2022

Plastic waste floats near the entrance to the Ruzizi I hydroelectric plant in Bukavu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo October 20, 2021. | Source: Reuters/Crispin Kyalangalilwa

Congolese city turns its plastic problem into profit

Crispin Kyalangalilwa 8 Apr 2022

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Africa's rural communities will be the hardest hit by plastic pollution

Joshua Amponsem 1 Apr 2022

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$5.7tn investment in energy transition needed per year until 2030 - Irena outlook

29 Mar 2022

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Recycling grows in Africa, creating job and business opportunities

18 Mar 2022

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Anglo American reduces emissions by 10% in sea trial using biofuel, VLSFO blend

17 Mar 2022

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How Africa can ride the green wave and lift itself out of energy poverty

Sindy Peters 16 Mar 2022

Kenneth Engblom, vice president, Wartsila Energy, Europe and Africa

How Africa can adopt renewable energy on a massive scale and save billions along the way

Kenneth Engblom 15 Mar 2022

3D printed layers of a wall element. Mehdi Chougan, Author provided

Future cities could be 3D printed - using concrete made with recycled glass

Seyed Ghaffar, Mehdi Chougan, Pawel Sikora 2 Mar 2022

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