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22AprApril 22, 2025

World Bank‑IMF Spring Meetings: Investors Call for Priority Investor Status to De‑risk & Scale Allocations to African NDCs

African NDC‑Aligned Green Industrial Infrastructure as a Globally Competitive Investable Asset Class Executive Summary During the World Bank-IMF Spring Meetings, investors advocated for the creation of Priority Investor Status (PIS), a proven framework designed to de‑risk and scale the mobilization of institutional capital for Africa’s NDC‑aligned green industrial infrastructure and SDG‑aligned investments....

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17DecDecember 17, 2024

How Institutional Investor-Public Partnerships Can Drive GreenTech Innovation Beyond Moore’s Law

Dr. Hubert Danso, Chairman, Africa investor (Ai) Group Every year of delayed green technology deployment costs the world an estimated $1.6 trillion in climate damages and lost opportunities—a stark reminder of the urgency to act. The challenge of achieving net-zero targets amidst systemic climate finance gaps is one of the defining crises...

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26NovNovember 26, 2024

How development banks are failing to attract enough private money to climate fight

As officials from around the world strive this week to reach a deal on funding for poorer countries to tackle climate change, investment manager Rob Drijkoningen is the sort of person they're hoping will help get them there. Drijkoningen is head of emerging market debt at U.S. asset manager Neuberger Berman,...

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04NovNovember 4, 2024

Natural Capital on African Governments’ Balance Sheets initiative introduced at COP16

The Sustainable Markets Initiative (SMI) Africa Council has unveiled a new initiative aimed at making natural assets a core component of national balance sheets. The Natural Capital on African Governments’ Balance Sheets initiative is an institutional investor-public partnership led by the SMI Africa Council, which brings together institutional, technology and legal...

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25OctOctober 25, 2024

Private Sector Observers Seek More Information From GEMs Database

Partially lifting the lid on a “treasure trove” of international economic data has not dampened interest in getting a closer look inside, but the crystal ball for the future is hazy. The valued data in question is known by the acronym GEMs. There’s information from 26 development finance institutions covering 20,000...

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24OctOctober 24, 2024

The magic pony of private finance fails to fund the global green transition

By now it’s a well-established pattern. A bright-eyed new World Bank president, the current one being the former Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga, comes in promising to leverage judicious injections of public money to unlock the vast reserves of private sector cash itching to invest in infrastructure in developing countries. The...

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27SepSeptember 27, 2024

Global Investors Back African NDCs as Platform to Build a World-Leading Green Technologies Manufacturing Hub

New York, September 24, 2024 Global institutional investors, representing over $50 trillion in assets as universal owners, have committed to supporting Africa’s Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) by assisting governments in transforming them into investable, bankable projects. At the African NDC Institutional Investment Summit, held during New York Climate Week alongside the UN...

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30JulJuly 30, 2024

Unleashing the Power of the Institutional Investor-Public Partnerships Framework’s Presidential Climate Investment Authority

The challenge of climate change demands innovative solutions, especially for African governments looking to accelerate green development and economic growth. Enter the Institutional Investor-Public Partnerships (IIPP) framework's Presidential Climate Investment Authority (PCIA) — a game-changing platform designed and championed by the African Green Infrastructure Investment Bank (AfGIIB), the African Union, Africa...

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17JulJuly 17, 2024

Institutional investment community urged to speak up to help improve private capital mobilization

Publish What You Fund, a global campaign for aid transparency, has published a draft proposal outlining a new approach for boosting private capital mobilization (PCM) for emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs). According to an executive summary of the draft proposal, there is a desire for more resources for multilateral development...

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11JulJuly 11, 2024

Private Capital Mobilisation – why we need to speak up, not just pay up

Dr Hubert Danso, Chairman and CEO of Africa Investor (Ai) Group, Chair, CFA Asset Owners Council, Co-Chair SMI Africa Council. The concept of Private Capital Mobilisation (PCM) is being touted as a big part of the solution to the ever-growing SDG and climate financing gap for emerging markets and developing economies...

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