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25 Jan 24

Bankers Push World Bank to Unlock Secret Data For Climate Loans

As the finance industry faces mounting pressure to play its part in fighting the climate crisis in the developing world, bankers point to a significant hurdle—one the World Bank and other public sector financiers have yet to remove. The problem, they say, is data. Executives from banks, including Citigroup Inc., say they…

24 Jan 24

Cheers to the New Year

Happy New Year, 2023 was a phenomenal year for climate and SDG’s investment leadership under Africa’s COP27 Presidency. Ai was pleased to see its MDB Reform Roadmap recommendations endorsed by shareholders this year and to champion the institutional investor voice at President Macron’s New Global Financial Pact Summit, President Ruto’s Africa Climate Summit,…

14 Dec 23

Scaling Private Capital Mobilization: Call to Action to heads of state, policymakers and multilateral development bank officials

There is overwhelming agreement on the urgent need for a significant increase in investment in Emerging Markets and Developing Countries (EMDCs) to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement goals, including a just energy transition. There is a gap of more than USD 4 trillion per…

11 Dec 23

His Excellency Sheikh Shakhboot bin Nahyan highlights United Arab Emirates commitments to Africa at Conference of the Parties (COP28)

His Excellency Sheikh Shakhboot bin Nahyan Al Nahyan, Minister of State, participated in the ‘Africa Investment Earthshot Leaders’ Summit’ at the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28), which is currently being held at Expo City Dubai. During a keynote speech, His Excellency…

11 Dec 23

Mercer unpacks Asset Allocation at The COP28 Africa Investment Earthshot Leaders’ Summit

Mercer, a business of Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC), the world’s leading professional services firm in the areas of risk, strategy, and people advising trillions of institutional assets, shared asset allocation assumptions at the COP28 Africa Investment Earthshot Leaders’ Summit, hosted by the COP28 Presidency, in association with The African Union…

09 Dec 23

Investable Green Industrial Cities Standards previewed at COP28 Africa Investment Earthshot Summit

While Special Economic Zones (SEZs) are well-recognised place-based investment tools for economic development, there is an urgent need to evolve bankability models and practices in the direction of investable Green Industrial Cities (GICs). GICs are destinations that nurture productive, long-term growth and attract industrial capital at scale. However, they do…

06 Dec 23

Africa investor NDC Investment Award Winners announced at COP28

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…

03 Dec 23

Ai and Global investors issue Heads of State Call to Action at COP28

Announced during the Leaders Summit at COP28 in Dubai, to fight climate change and deliver on the Sustainable Development Goals announced, Africa investor and 9 other global institutional investment organisations—representing over $100trn of assets under management and advisement—jointly issued a Call to Action to Scale Private Capital Mobilization to Heads…

26 Oct 23

Hidden GEMS: Costs to Developing Countries of MDB’s not Democratizing investor access to the GEMs risk database

The majority of emerging markets and developing countries (EMDCs), climate, SDG financing and investment needs (more so than advanced economies) finance by private capital at scale, during current and historic times, when the high perception of EMDC risk remains a binding constraint to attracting private capital at scale, compounded by…

20 Oct 23

Africa: A hub for green investment

Dr. Hubert Danso, CEO and Chairman of the Africa Investor (AI) Group, joins Vince Molinari to talk about Africa’s position on climate change. They also discuss how Africa is shaping itself as a hub for green investment opportunities and how value can be added to the continent’s extensive raw materials.…