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COP17 | UN biodiversity summit faces final-day deadlock over 0 billion finance gap and corporate contributions

COP17 | UN biodiversity summit faces final-day deadlock over $700 billion finance gap and corporate contributions

eriinfo.com1 week ago015 mins

COP17 | UN biodiversity summit faces final-day deadlock over $700 billion finance gap and corporate contributions COP 17 President Hambardzum Matevosyan, Minister of Environment, Armenia. PHOTO/IISD/ENB – Mike Muzurakis. By PATRICK MAYOYO [email protected] The 2026 United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP17) is heading towards its conclusion on Friday amid unresolved disagreements over biodiversity financing, corporate contributions, benefit-sharing…

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Wcaf V – African Development Bank Group and UK Export Finance Sign MOU to Mobilise Financing for Africa

eriinfo.com2 weeks ago04 mins

The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) and UK Export Finance (UKEF), the United Kingdom’s export credit agency, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen cooperation on co-financing projects across Africa and mobilise additional resources for the continent’s sustainable development. Abdul Kamara, Officer in Charge, Vice President of the African Development Bank Group, and Tim…

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Africa: West Africa Urged to Unite for Climate Finance At COP31

eriinfo.com2 weeks ago05 mins

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is pushing for increased climate financing to help vulnerable countries in the sub-region tackle the growing threat of climate change. Ahead of the 31st United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP31), the bloc is calling for stronger international support to address climate-related losses, improve adaptation and ensure that…

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Africa: Wall Street to Host Africa Cocoa Finance, Investment Forum

eriinfo.com3 weeks ago04 mins

The Africa Cocoa Finance & Investment Forum (ACFIF) 2026 will bring together investors, financial institutions, policymakers, cocoa industry leaders, development partners and entrepreneurs on October 26, 2026, at Wall Street in New York’s Financial District. The forum will link Africa’s cocoa sector with global capital, strategic partners and United States commercial opportunities. Following its successful…

Africa: To Finance Africa at Scale, Build Its Capital Markets at Home

eriinfo.com3 weeks ago010 mins

In a RootsToFoods Capital Series interview, Wasim Tahir, Senior Advisor at ODI Global and former director at British International Investment, explains how development finance actually moves private capital into emerging markets, and why the lasting answer lies in deep domestic capital markets and national development banks. Ovidiu Bujorean, chief executive officer of OviBees Ventures, spoke…

India’s finance minister confirms trade impasse with the U.S.

eriinfo.com1 month ago04 mins

India’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said trade talks with the U.S. had reached a plateau, adding to growing skepticism around a deal between New Delhi and Washington. “Negotiations are still ongoing, although we’d like to believe that both sides have reached a plateau beyond which giving or taking might be very very difficult,” Sitharaman said,…

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Africa: When African Smallholders Access Finance, They’ll Show You What’s Possible

eriinfo.com1 month ago07 mins

Nairobi, Kenya — I was born in Rwanda, but my family soon became refugees in Uganda during the conflict and unrest on the cusp of independence. My father was a teacher and went to great lengths to make sure I was well educated. My parents were also smallholder farmers, and I saw firsthand the challenges…

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Africa: Healthcap Africa Urges Pension Funds to Finance Healthcare

eriinfo.com1 month ago03 mins

As international donor funding from USAID and other foreign assistance programs for healthcare continues to shrink, leading financial stakeholders convened by HealthCap Africa, at its Private Markets & Healthcare Roundtable called for a stronger domestic capital ecosystem to help finance Africa’s critical healthcare needs. Pension fund representatives at the meeting came from institutions collectively managing…

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African Farmers Demand Affordable Finance As Governments Fall Short On Funding

eriinfo.com2 months ago012 mins

Kigali — Agriculture remains underfunded in Africa as governments struggle to deliver on decades-old promises to dedicate 10% of national income to agriculture. But for many farmers, mobilising finance is only half the battle. Reaching smallholder farmers in the last mile with the little available finance remains a challenge. Some of the funding is heavily…

Africa Gets Only 23% of the Climate Finance It Needs – and Pays Too Much for It

eriinfo.com2 months ago015 mins

African countries have committed themselves to cutting greenhouse gas emissions and protecting their people from the worsening effects of climate change. These commitments form part of the Paris Agreement, an international climate treaty adopted in 2015 in which countries agreed to take steps to limit global warming. Doing this requires billions of dollars in climate…