Building Africa’s Bankable Green Infrastructure Projects Pipeline

07 Sep 23

Green Industrial Cities Make Africa ‘renewable energy superpower’

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 Institutional Investor-Public Partnerships (IIPPs) to […]
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07 Jul 23

Summit calls for pension fund, SWF investments through African Green Infrastructure Investment Bank

The New Financial Pact Summit, which took place June 22–23 in France, convened heads of state and government, Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs), international organizations and hundreds of civil society private sector and investment leaders. Private-sector recommendations from the summit called for African collaborative pension fund and sovereign wealth fund investments at scale, made through the […]
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04 Jul 23

NDC Investment Awards 2023 to be presented at COP28 in UAE – Call for entries:

The hunt is on for the public and private sector institutions that are contributing most to private capital mobilization and developing bankable and investable Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) projects in Africa. Africa as a continent, needs to mobilise $3trn in order to meet its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) projects by 2030, while the whole world […]
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04 Jul 23

Model Law on Institutional Investor-Public Partnerships underpins DLA Piper’s shortlisting at coveted African Legal Awards 2023

The Model Law on Institutional Investor-Public Partnerships (ML-IIPPs) has underpinned DLA Piper’s shortlisting for ESG Initiative of the Year at the coveted African Legal Awards 2023. Now in their 10th year and hosted by Law.com international and partnered with the Corporate Counsel Association of South Africa (CCASA) and Africa Legal, the African Legal Awards recognise […]
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30 Jun 23

Macron New Financial Pact Summit recommends mainstreaming of Institutional Investor-Public Partnerships (IIPPs)

The New Financial Pact Summit private sector recommendations called for the mainstreaming of Institutional Investor-Public Partnerships (IIPPs) in its recommendations to mobilize private capital at scale, to close the financing and investment gap in emerging markets and developing countries (EMDCs). IIPPs are innovative infrastructure investment partnerships between a government and an institutional investor or investors, […]
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30 Jun 23

Macron Summit Calls for African pension and sovereign wealth fund co-investments through the African Green Infrastructure Investment Bank (AfGIIB)

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 supposed to mobilize $10 of […]
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22 Jun 23

Support for Green Industrial Cities in Africa announced at Macron New Financial Pact (NFP) Summit

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 Communities (UC) based […]
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