DLA Piper Drafts Model Law To Unlock Funding For African Climate Projects
DLA Piper designed the ML-IIPP, a 130 page document that delivers the fast tracking, de-risking and scaling of private capital participation DLA Piper (www.DLAPiper.com), in collaboration with the African Green Infrastructure Investment Bank (AfGIIB), Africa investor (Ai) and the CFA Asset Owners Council (AoC), has launched the Model Law on Institutional Investor-Public Partnerships (ML-IIPP) initiative which […]
Big Climate Financing Wins For Africa On Day 3 Of COP27
The issue of climate adaptation continued to dominate the African agenda on Day 3 of COP27. On Wednesday, the International Capital Market Association (ICMA), who set the rules in the bond market, laid out plans for countries hit by climate induced natural disasters, such as flooding and hurricanes, to automatically freeze debt payments. The ICMA introduced […]
Africa Energy Week Conference Addresses SA’s Energy Poverty
In the latest episode of Connecting Africa, CNN International’s Eleni Giokos visits Cape Town for Africa’s Energy Week, where leaders gathered to discuss the issue of energy poverty and the transition to renewable energy. Verner Ayukegba, Senior Vice President of the African Energy Chamber describes the energy situation, “600 million people without any kind of access to energy, […]
Heading To Egypt: Voices And Solutions From The Front Line Of Climate Crises
What can we do now? Indigenous leaders, top scientists, leading politicians, and activists from Africa and the globe seek and provide answers at GLF Climate Conference alongside the most important climate conference of the year Humanity is facing a barrage of interconnected crises: climate change, conflict, hunger, high inflation, energy crisis and the enduring impacts […]
Mending Africa’s Digital Infrastructure Gaps: inq. Fabric Is The First African-developed Automated Provisioning And Routing Solution
To help stitch together the gaps in Africa’s digital infrastructure landscape, leading edge solutions provider inq., has launched Fabric, the first African-developed cloud connectivity, Network as a Service software for automated provisioning and routing. Following an 18-month development cycle, inq. Fabric has emerged as an optimised mega portal network software that provides businesses – from […]
