New Africa Renewable Energy Manufacturing Initiative to Unleash 1.2 Terawatts of RE, Create 14 Million Jobs and Increase GDP by over 6% by 2050
On 17 January 2023 during Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week, Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL), the African Climate Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, ClimateWorks Foundation and the Chinese Renewable Energy Industries Association (CREIA) launched the Africa Renewable Energy Manufacturing Initiative (AREMI) to drive investment and mobilise action in African countries to scale up renewable energy manufacturing capabilities. With a […]
Shaping the Continent’s Energy Future while Navigating the New Scramble for Africa
Africa is increasingly becoming a geopolitical and geo-economic playground for powerful countries and blocks as they look to African resources to secure both their short and long-term energy security needs. This has been particularly evident in the past year, following the outbreak of conflict in Ukraine and the subsequent dash for African gas by European […]
Deal with investment blockages to secure trillions needed for SA’s just transition – Intellidex report
South Africa requires between R4 trillion and R8.5 trillion for its just energy transition (JET), a report written by market researchers Intellidex found. But there are several blockages in the existing capital market landscape that curtail the key role that the private sector will need to play in providing the scale of finance needed. The […]
Financing South Africa’s Just Energy Transition
The Just Energy Transition (JET) requires substantial quantities of new finance, continually, over a long period of time. Transitions could take 30 years for emerging markets (EMs) such as South Africa and estimates range on the investment needed for the country from R4tn to R8.5tn. It will be a steady pathway towards net zero over […]
Natural Gas In Africa Amid A Low-Carbon Energy Transition
Nigeria, Egypt, Algeria, Equatorial Guinea, and Angola are already established gas producers, serving global and, in some cases, domestic markets. Others, including South Africa, Namibia Senegal, Mozambique, and Tanzania are classed as emergent producers, potentially seeking to grow their gas industries. The war in the Ukraine has contributed to supply constraints and price hikes on […]
Natural Gas In Africa Amid A Low-Carbon Energy Transition: A Case Study of Mozambique and Tanzania
Mozambique and Tanzania both have substantial gas reserves, but development of the countries’ gas industries has been hampered by political and economic factors. Looking ahead, future global action on climate change poses the risk of new infrastructure in both countries being stranded, due to declining gas markets and prices, as well as declining capital availability […]
Supporting Pre-COP27 Convenings: Nigeria’s National Dialogue on Energy Transition
It is critical that Nigeria and other African countries experience just energy transitions that takes into consideration the need to meet the huge energy gap on the continent, the National Dialogue on Energy Transition heard. Presently Nigeria’s economy is centred around fossil fuels, with oil companies still playing a dominant role and gas resources also luring […]
Just Energy Transitions and Natural Gas in Africa
Africa is increasingly being viewed as an important player in the natural gas sector, with over 40 percent of global gas discoveries between 2011 and 2018 made on the continent. Mozambique and Tanzania alone accounted for 24 percent of global discoveries over this period. For mature LNG producers, like Algeria, Nigeria and Egypt, gas represents […]
Food Systems Transformation in Africa | Part 2
Food markets across the continent are failing African consumers, with malnutrition and broader food insecurity on the continent growing. Production and trading of key food commodities are highly concentrated within and across African countries. At consumer level, the ‘supermarketisation’ of food retail is shaping household choices through packaging, marketing, promotions and positioning on shelves. The […]
Towards an African Green Industries Value Chain within the AfCFTA
Regional integration has long been seen as a critical means of creating the scale required to underpin deep structural transformation in Africa. In the context of transitioning to low-carbon economies, the AfCFTA has the potential to support a continental green industrialisation agenda. This requires greater synthesis between programmes and projects seeking to promote climate resilience […]
