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Wendy Dobson, Head of Group Policy, Advocacy and Sustainability at Standard Bank Group As Africa grapples with a plethora of social, economic and environmental challenges, there is a substantial opportunity for large corporates to introspect and determine whether they are still staying true to their core purposes. For some time, much of the corporate world […]
...Measuring Stakeholder Capitalism: World’s Largest Companies Support Developing Core Set of Universal ESG Disclosures 140 of the world’s largest companies support effort to develop a core set of common metrics and disclosures on non-financial factors to their investors and other stakeholders. Chief executive officers increasingly see topics of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) and Sustainable […]
...You may have seen a variant of this meme before. A map of North Africa is shown, with a surprisingly small box somewhere in Libya or Algeria shaded in. An area of the Sahara this size, the caption will say, could power the entire world through solar energy: Area of Sahara you’d need to cover […]
...This article is part of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting Boycotting oil and gas firms in Africa is a misguided course of action. Many are diversifying into renewables. Africa’s time to grow is here – and its natural resources are a part of that. In a 2014 article, Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa argued for an […]
...This article is part of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting Africa is missing out on the benefits global trade can bring. Tackling corruption, governance and security of contracts is crucial to boosting trade. The continent needs a network of logistics infrastructure to drive intra-continental trade. Something has gone wrong in the worldwide conversation about global […]
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