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Africa's Green Economy Summit, Belmont Park, Cape Town Southern Suburbs (2025)

22/08/2025

🌍👉Namibia’s Green Hydrogen Future: Building Skills, Building a Nation

Namibia’s renewable energy ambitions are accelerating, with world-class green hydrogen projects taking shape in the ǁKharas Region and beyond. But the real game-changer? Investing in people.

✍️✒️From artisans and engineers to project managers and technicians, the country is rapidly upskilling its workforce to meet global standards and ensure Namibians are at the heart of this clean energy revolution.

Read the full story by IOL News here: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0mvlLx0

22/08/2025

💡Africa’s Path to Becoming a Renewable Energy Superpower

“Africa has everything it takes to become a renewable superpower,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres at the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD). 🌍⚡

🌄From solar and wind to critical minerals, the continent holds the keys to powering a low-carbon future – but unlocking this potential will require bold investment, technology transfer, and strong partnerships.

What steps do you think are most critical to accelerate Africa’s green energy transformation?

Read the full story by ENCA here: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0mvqbL0

21/08/2025

🚨🖥️WEBINAR REMINDER🚨🖥️ Come along to the "Stacking Nature’s Value: Where Biodiversity Credits Fit In" webinar!

Join us for a deep dive into this emerging opportunity: how these markets can work together, what’s holding back demand, and the policies, incentives, and financial tools needed to scale impact for both nature and communities.🍃🌍

💡WEBINAR DETAILS:
🗓️Date: Wednesday, 3 September
🕰️Time: 1pm WAT| 2pm SAST | 3pm EAT
✒️Structure: 75 minutes | Interactive Poll | Live Q & A
Register here:https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0mtl4f0

📣Moderator:
- Candice Stevens, Founder & CEO, Sustainable Finance Coalition

🗣️Speakers (confirmed to date):
- Pauline Nantongo, Executive Director, Ecotrust (Environmental Conservation Trust of Uganda)
- Toral Shah, Biodiversity Coordinator, Plan Vivo Foundation,
- Simon Morgan, Science Lead, CreditNature
- Alister Scott, Executive Director, Global Rewilding Alliance
- Monique Atouguia, Senior Consultant, Global Africa Nature Market, NatureFinance

21/08/2025

🌊 Safeguarding East Africa’s Blue Economy: Introducing The Jahazi Project

For centuries, the Indian Ocean has sustained East African communities — as a source of food, culture, and economic opportunity. But today, illegal and unsustainable practices are draining over US$415 million annually and threatening the livelihoods of millions.

🚢 Enter The Jahazi Project, a new initiative by Ascending Africa, named after the traditional Swahili dhow — a symbol of resilience and navigation. This project is charting a new course by:
✔️ Combating illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing
✔️ Empowering coastal communities with sustainable livelihoods
✔️ Strengthening regional policies and maritime enforcement
✔️ Inspiring the next generation to protect their marine heritage

By 2030, East Africa’s Blue Economy could be worth US$405 billion — but only if development and environmental stewardship move hand in hand. The Jahazi Project is about restoring this balance, ensuring that oceans remain a source of life, prosperity, and pride for generations to come.

🌍 The future of East Africa is tied to the sea — and with The Jahazi Project, the region is taking a decisive step to protect it.

Read the full story by The Chanzo here: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0mt83X0

21/08/2025

💧 Durban’s Bold Leap: From Toilet-to-Tap, Pioneering Water Security in South Africa

👉As water scarcity intensifies, cities are being pushed to rethink supply. Durban is set to become South Africa’s first city to recycle and purify sewage into drinking-quality water — with advanced ultra-filtration, reverse osmosis, and UV disinfection ensuring safety. 🌍

While the idea may spark a “yuck” reaction, global precedents like Windhoek show how reclaimed water can be safe, sustainable, and a source of civic pride. 🗨️

With 37% of Durban’s water currently lost to leaks and theft, innovative solutions like this could be key to building resilience in the face of climate change.

👉 Would you drink it?

Read the full article by IOL News here: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0mt7C80

20/08/2025

🚨🖥️NEW MODERATOR ALERT🚨🖥️ Candice Stevens, Founder & CEO, Sustainable Finance Coalition will be moderating the "Stacking Nature’s Value: Where Biodiversity Credits Fit In" webinar!

🗣️Candice Stevens is the Founder and CEO of the Sustainable Finance Coalition and Co-Chair of the IUCN WCPA Sustainable Finance Specialist Group. Candice is a visionary in green finance and sustainable solutions and leverages her expertise to develop innovative and impactful finance solutions for preserving our natural landscapes and seascapes.

In her regional and global roles, she collaborates with industry leaders and diverse stakeholders to bridge Africa’s nature finance gap. Her groundbreaking work in innovative finance has garnered prestigious recognition, including the UN Pathfinder Award, Ecologic Awards, Greening the Future, and Mulago Foundation Fellowship. With a strong background in law, commerce and tax, Candice has extensive experience in protected and conserved area financing, environmental law and policy-making on financial incentives. She is represented on numerous national, regional and international committees focused on financing, resourcing and area-based conservation including the Advisory Task Force on Financial Reporting to the Convention on Biological Diversity. Notably, Candice’s partnership with the Government of South Africa led to the introduction of the world’s first effective biodiversity tax incentive within the South African protected areas network, earning her a Pathfinder Award Special Commendation for this pioneering global innovation.

Join us for a deep dive into this emerging opportunity: how these markets can work together, what’s holding back demand, and the policies, incentives, and financial tools needed to scale impact for both nature and communities.🍃🌍

💡WEBINAR DETAILS:
🗓️Date: Wednesday, 3 September
🕰️Time: 1pm WAT| 2pm SAST | 3pm EAT
✒️Structure: 75 minutes | Interactive Poll | Live Q & A
Register here:https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0ms1KM0

🗣️Speakers (confirmed to date):
- Pauline Nantongo, Executive Director, Ecotrust (Environmental Conservation Trust of Uganda)
- Toral Shah, Biodiversity Coordinator, Plan Vivo Foundation,
- Simon Morgan, Science Lead, CreditNature
- Alister Scott, Executive Director, Global Rewilding Alliance
- Monique Atouguia, Lead, Global Africa Nature Market, NatureFinance

20/08/2025

🌍💡South Africa Moves to Tighten Carbon Tax, Weighs Offsets and Penalties

South Africa has proposed key amendments to its carbon tax framework:

- Allowing the use of carbon removals/offsets within the system
- Introducing stricter penalties for major emitters

The shift signals a balancing act—giving companies some flexibility through removals while ensuring stronger enforcement to drive decarbonisation.🗨️

👉As the country edges closer to its net zero transition, these adjustments could reshape how industries engage with both compliance and voluntary markets.

Read the full story by Carbon Pulse here: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0mrRFY0

20/08/2025

♻️ From Waste to Wealth: Circular Economy Strategies for Nigeria’s Supply Chain

Nigeria faces mounting supply chain challenges—rising inflation, import dependency, infrastructure gaps, and climate stressors. Yet hidden in its 32 million tonnes of annual waste lies a massive opportunity for sustainable growth and resilience.🌍

By empowering SMEs and informal waste pickers, Nigeria can build circular economy hubs that transform waste into raw materials, strengthen local supply chains, and reduce reliance on imports.

Drawing on global precedents from Brazil, India, and Colombia, this strategy highlights how community-driven innovation and inclusive business models can unlock economic potential while tackling waste and unemployment.

👉 Nigeria’s future supply chain resilience may lie not in imports, but in circular, local solutions led by SMEs.

Read the full story by Business Day Nigeria here: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0mrR4K0

20/08/2025

🌱 Low-Cost, High-Impact Farming Transforms Food Security in Malawi

Rising fertilizer costs and land degradation have long left many smallholder farmers in Malawi struggling to produce enough food. But innovative, low-cost solutions like Mbeya fertilizer and zero tillage are changing lives.

🌄Through FAO’s Land Use Planning and Sustainable Land and Water Management project, funded by the Government of Flanders, farmers like Maganizo Lukhere have seen maize yields jump from just 10–13 bags to 40 bags per acre—enough to eliminate hunger in his household.

Made from locally available materials and just a small amount of inorganic fertilizer, Mbeya fertilizer is affordable, sustainable, and scalable—proof that simple innovations can deliver big impacts for food security, soil health, and resilience.✒️

Read the full story by FAO here: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0mrSzD0

19/08/2025

💡🗣️PARTNER UPDATE💡🗣️ AP3 Advisory Masterclass Webinar goes LIVE today!

AP3 Advisory is the Advisory Partner for AGES 2026🤝

The conversations we’ve been queuing up goes live today.
Our Facilitators are ready.

Practitioners who care less about perfect slide decks and more about projects that stand up to scrutiny fiscally, technically, and socially.

👉In the next few hours, we’ll delve into the institutional capabilities behind bankable PPPs: how units earn and utilize their mandate, how teams develop repeatable skills, and how alignment is negotiated, not assumed.

If your work touches PPP delivery in any way, there’s still time to join us and add your voice.

🔗 Join us now: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0mr5px0

This session is one step in the Masterclass journey toward our October 5-day in-person intensive.

19/08/2025

🚨🖥️NEW SPEAKER ALERT🚨🖥️ Monique Atouguia, Senior Consultant, Global Africa Nature Market, NatureFinance will be speaking on the "Stacking Nature’s Value: Where Biodiversity Credits Fit In" webinar!

🗣️Monique is the Global Africa Lead at NatureFinance, where she is leading NatureFinance’s role as Knowledge Partner in the G20 Global Initiative on the Bioeconomy (GIB). Previously at NatureFinance she led the landscaping study mapping how biodiversity credit projects are emerging across the African continent, Investing in Africa, Investing in Nature, and before that she managed the Taskforce on Nature Markets. Monique’s background is in policy analysis and advisory, socio-economic development and multi-stakeholder engagements. She has worked and published on a broad range of issues - from the governance gap on the African continent, to a range of sector specific policy and implementation recommendations; from the grossly unequal gendered experiences within the South African film and television industry to analysis of youth leadership initiatives on the African continent. Hitherto Monique has worked in consulting, specialising in conflict resolution, consensus-building, multi-stakeholder relations and policy advisory.

Join us for a deep dive into this emerging opportunity: how these markets can work together, what’s holding back demand, and the policies, incentives, and financial tools needed to scale impact for both nature and communities.🍃🌍

💡WEBINAR DETAILS:
🗓️Date: Wednesday, 3 September
🕰️Time: 1pm WAT| 2pm SAST | 3pm EAT
✒️Structure: 75 minutes | Interactive Poll | Live Q & A
Register here:https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0mqTVq0

📣Moderator:
- Candice Stevens, Founder & CEO, Sustainable Finance Coalition

🗣️Speakers (confirmed to date):
- Pauline Nantongo, Executive Director, Ecotrust (Environmental Conservation Trust of Uganda)
- Toral Shah, Biodiversity Coordinator, Plan Vivo Foundation,
- Simon Morgan, Science Lead, CreditNature
- Alister Scott, Executive Director, Global Rewilding Alliance

19/08/2025

💨⚡ Standard Bank backs Seriti Green’s 155 MW Mpumalanga wind farm, driving SA’s Just Energy Transition

A milestone for South Africa’s energy heartland. 🌍

Standard Bank has enabled financial close for Seriti Green’s Ummbila Emoyeni 3 (155 MW)—doubling installed capacity at the Mpumalanga wind cluster to 310 MW.

This landmark project brings:
✅ ZAR 2.45bn in project finance from Standard Bank
✅ Over 800 construction jobs and youth training opportunities
✅ Long-term offtake with EXSA, strengthening the private energy market
✅ Cleaner, more inclusive power for South Africa’s Net Zero journey

As coal-dependent Mpumalanga transitions, projects like these show how finance, renewables, and community development can converge to reshape the region’s future.

Read the full story by Engineering News here: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0mqHNv0

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