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Africa’s Climate Finance Pivot: The Rise of National Funds in a Post-Pledge World
For more than a decade, Africa’s climate transition has rested on a delicate fiction: that global climate finance, however slow and insufficient, would eventually scale up. Pledges would harden into...
Gas, Phase-Out, and Africa: What the Debate Is Really About
I have lost count of how many times I have heard the same sentence, delivered with confidence and concern in equal measure: Africa needs gas as a transition fuel. It is said in conference halls,...
What Happens to Climate Negotiations When Big Emitters Walk Away
For years, global climate negotiations have relied on a fragile yet powerful idea: that collective action, however imperfect, is preferable to unilateral drift. The machinery of climate governance...
When the United States Walks Away: What Trump’s UN Climate Withdrawal Means for Africa’s Energy Transition
When the United States withdraws from global climate institutions, the consequences are never confined to Washington. They ripple outward through markets, multilateral banks, diplomatic alignments,...
Africa’s Fossil Fuel Politics: The Quiet Divisions Shaping the Energy Transition
Africa often arrives at global climate summits speaking the language of unity. “A just transition.” “Common but differentiated responsibilities.” “Development first.” Behind the scenes, the reality...
Africa’s Minerals and the Global Clean-Tech Race: Beyond Extraction to Industrial Strategy
Africa’s minerals are no longer peripheral to the global economy. They now sit at the centre of the clean-technology transition that will define industrial power in the twenty-first century. Lithium,...
Minigrids at the Investment Crossroads: Why 2026 Will Decide Africa’s Power Future
Mini-grids are one of the rare areas in Africa’s energy transition where consensus exists. They work. They deliver reliable power faster than grid extension, cleaner power than diesel, and more...
Reimagining Africa’s Energy Futures: From Models to Action by 2030
Africa’s energy future has been modelled in extraordinary detail. The real question is why so little of it materialises. Across think tanks, multilateral banks, consultancies, and academic...
Financing Fair Energy Transition & Energy Access in Africa
“Only 14% of committed mini-grid funding has actually been disbursed.” That figure should stop every energy conversation in its tracks. I have spent years travelling through African communities where...
Africa’s Minerals Corridors Could Make or Break the Energy Transition
Africa’s minerals have long been exported raw, but new corridors could turn them into a strategic asset, reshaping value, infrastructure and the energy transition.
What Young Africans Are Teaching Us About the Energy Future
The most radical thing I have learned about Africa’s energy future did not come from a policy report, a donor strategy, or a conference panel. It came from watching young Africans refuse to wait. In...
Africa, China and the US: The New Geopolitics of the Energy Transition
For much of the last decade, the global energy transition was framed as a technical exercise, a matter of replacing fossil fuels with renewables, coal plants with solar farms, and internal combustion...