With more than $100trn of domestic and global institutional assets represented at the Summit, influential public and private sector investment leaders gathered at the COP28 Africa Investment Earthshot Leaders’ Summit, in the first major international gathering of institutional investors following the Africa Climate Summit. The aim is to shape an...
Dubai, Johannesburg, Nairobi, Lagos, Washington, Brussels, Beijing, Dubai – 5th December 2023: Africa investor (Ai), a leading international investment group, today announced that African Governments and business leaders, were honoured at the Africa investor (Ai) NDC Investment Awards, held on the 5th of December 2023 at COP28, during The COP28...
3 December 2023: The Infrastructure Corporation of Nigeria (InfraCorp), a US$15 billion government-backed, privately managed infrastructure development, is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with the African Green Infrastructure Investment Bank and Solarge International BV, a leading European manufacturer of lightweight solar panels, for establishing a solar panel manufacturing factory...
New York, 20th September 2023 – Africa investor (Ai) participated in the 78th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) attended by over 130 heads of state and government and the UN Climate Week activities, under the theme ‘We Can. We Will.’ This year’s Climate Week was bigger than 2022, which was the...
The shortlist for the highly coveted NDC Investment Awards, sponsored by the African Green Infrastructure Investment Bank (AfGIIB), was unveiled at UN Climate Week in New York, following the UN Secretary Generals Ambition Summit. These first-of-their-kind global African climate investment awards, launched at COP27 in Egypt and showcased during the successful...
Nairobi, Kenya, 7th September 2023 – Africa investor (Ai) participated in the African Unions’ inaugural Africa Climate Summit (ACS), on "Driving Green Growth and Climate Finance Solutions for Africa and the World." The ACS held between the September the 4th to the 6th of September 2023, bringing together 25 Heads...
Nairobi, Kenya, Oslo, Norway 7th September 2023 - “Africa has the potential to become a world leader in renewables and green growth”. ‘Kenya’s President Ruto’s´ message to the 2023 African Climate Summit (ACS), echoed by African Union Heads of State and UN Secretary-General Guterres’, calling for the immediate creation of...
The New Financial Pact Summit private sector recommendations called for African collaborative pension fund and sovereign wealth fund investments at scale, through the African Green Infrastructure Investment Bank (AfGIIB), to counter the Multilateral Development Banks’ (MDBs) private capital mobilization market failure in Africa. According to the G20, Multilateral Development Banks are...
Paris, France/Sandton, South Africa/Vienna, Austria Selected cities will become lighthouse cities in Africa and for the world through the concept development and implementation of a blueprint for African cities becoming Green Industrial Cities. The Just Transition Investor Alliance (JTIA) from South Africa and United Cities – International Centre for Sustainable Cities and...
Cape Town, Addis Ababa, London, Paris, Washington, Beijing, Dubai, Brasilia, Tokyo The timely AfCFTA Business Forum, co-hosted by the AfCFTA Secretariat and the Government of South Africa in Cape Town, South Africa this week was a resounding success, according to African institutional investment leaders. The AfCFTA Business Forum, is Africa’s...
