Category: Sustainability

Africa’s plants: a database project has recorded 65,000 species – and is still growing

First Published: July 10, 2025 4.00pm SAST,The Conservation Author: Cyrille Chatelain, Scientist, Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de Genève (CJBG) The African Plant Database lists 65,000 species of flowering plants, ferns and conifers found on the African continent and Madagascar. Since 2006, every plant species ever documented in Africa and Madagascar has been included in the massive online database, with about 200 new species added every year. Cyrille Chatelain is a curator at the Geneva Botanical Garden in Switzerland. He’s researched plants in Côte d’Ivoire, Madagascar and north Africa and manages the plant database. Here…

Africa’s Clean-Cooking Drive Hinges on Carbon-Credit Reform, Transport Upgrades

Africa’s long-delayed transition to clean cooking will fail without a serious overhaul of how the continent finances, transports and regulates LPG, senior executives said during a high-level panel on clean cooking and LPG at the G20 Africa Energy Investment Forum in Johannesburg on Friday. Speakers pointed to a rare alignment of political support – following G20 endorsement of clean cooking as a priority area – but warned that critical infrastructure gaps and a broken financing ecosystem are slowing progress. South Africa’s LPG demand sits “just below 500,000 metric tons,” yet…

Afreximbank Calls for Africa’s Sustainable Dev’t,Industrialisation & Just Transition at COP30

BELEM, Brazil, November 13, 2025/ — At the ongoing 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) in Belem, Brazil, African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) (www.Afreximbank.com) is strategically advocating for a climate agenda that aligns with Africa’s sustainable development and industrialisation ambitions as outlined by its President, Dr. George Elombi. The Bank’s delegation is advocating for a pan-African climate narrative that builds on the outcomes of the African Climate Summits and previous COPs. Afreximbank’s engagements are anchored on the core principles of the AU Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want, and emphasizes the…

Why Ghanaian Parents Must Prepare Their Children for the Jobs of 2030-By(Yakubu Lantam Abdul-Jabar),

In a classroom in Accra, Kumasi,Tamale, or a village near Kpandai and Salaga, a child is memorising notes for a job that does not yet exist in the Ghanaian economy. By 2030, the country will need hundreds of thousands of new roles to power a digital economy, fight climate collapse, and serve a population projected to hit 40 million. The World Economic Forum, McKinsey, and Deloitte warn that half of today’s jobs will be transformed or gone. If parents keep pushing only WASSCE certificates and government desk jobs, their children…

All set for Bindira Chugu(Traditional Culinary Art Festival) 2025

Report: Mohammed A.Abu The second edition of Bidira Chugu (culinary art festival) and exhibition is due shortly to take off in Ghana’s Northern Regional capital of Tamale. This year’s edition is scheduled to take place from October 17th and 18th,2025 under the theme, “Reclaiming Our Food, Restoring Our Identity,” focusing on indigenous foods and their role in a sustainable future. Symposium and Exhibition For the symposium component of the event, one hundred and fifty (150) participants, 6 speakers, and 20 exhibitors are expected.  Partners The key partners to the event…

Elevating the Greening of Africa’s Real Estate/Built Environment

Need for Integration,Strategic Partnerships et al, echoed…. As ACEACRES 2025 ends in Accra By: Mohammed A. Abu The Third edition of the Africa Construction, Engineering, Architecture, & Real Estate Summit (ACEACRES 2025) the flagship event of the Africa Engineering and Construction Network(ACECEN) has ended in Accra with an acknowledgment of the enormous task ahead as it relates to the green transitioning  of Africa’s real estate sector and her built environment as a whole. Speakers,Presenters and panelists were however  optimistic that, there is light at the end of the tunnel in…

UDS Academic, Dr. Abdul-Basit Tampuli Abukari, Featured in J-PAL’s African Scholar Spotlight

The University for Development Studies (UDS),proudly celebrates Dr. Abdul-Basit Tampuli Abukari, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Agricultural and Food Economics, who has been profiled by The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) in its African Scholar Spotlight of 16th September 2025. The African Scholar Spotlight is part of J-PAL’s ongoing series that highlights the contributions of African economists who are advancing development through rigorous, evidence-based research. In its latest feature, J-PAL recognized Dr. Abukari for his pioneering work in agricultural development, impact evaluation, and the digital transformation of farming…

About African Gov’ts and carbon market readiness

UNDP-Vuka Group Join hands for Carbon Markets Africa Summit “How is it possible that in 2025, when we are able to send people to the moon, when we are able to create driverless vehicles, we’ve not been able to solve the problem of cooking energy in Africa’s rural areas?” asks Maxwell Gomera, Resident Representative of UNDP South Africa and Director of the Africa Sustainable Finance Hub. He continues: “This is something that is within our means. And as the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Africa Sustainable Finance Hub, we are…

Making an Input into Ghana’s Circular Economy Drive

Tahir Field Recycling Turns “Dirty Oil” into Goodies By: Mohammed A. Abu Ghana is actively transitioning from the wasteful, take-make-use-waste-discard linear economy to a circular (resources use efficiency oriented) economy through policies like the National Plastic Management Policy. Key initiatives include developing Circular Economy Centres and Hubs for technical training and business incubation, supported by organizations like the UNIDO, UNDP and the European Union. These efforts aim to reduce waste and pollution, promote resource efficiency, and ensure a just transition that includes women and youth in economic opportunities. Circular economy principles appreciates waste in…

All Set for EARLYFEST 2025: Africa’s Festival for Children, Innovation and Sustainability

The TERIA Foundation has announced the 5th edition of EARLYFEST 2025, Africa’s leading festival dedicated to children, innovation, and sustainability. This was contained in an official statement issued in Accra, Saturday.The festival, the statement said, will take place on 21st–22nd November 2025 at the Efua Sutherland Children’s Park, Accra, Ghana. EARLYFEST 2025, it disclosed, will bring together children, educators, innovators,organizations, and businesses across Africa to celebrate creativity, promote sustainable solutions, and highlight the importance of early childhood development. “EARLYFEST is more than a festival. It is a movement to reimagine…