AGES 2025: Constructing a local weather resilient Africa – catalysing funding and innovation within the inexperienced and blue economies
Sanlam Investments is proud to sponsor Africa’s Inexperienced Economic system Summit (AGES) 2025, scheduled to happen from 19-21 February 2025 on the Century Metropolis Convention Centre in Cape City. AGES is a premier occasion designed to attach international capital with transformative inexperienced economic system companies and initiatives throughout Africa, starting from entrepreneurial start-ups to large-scale nationwide infrastructure initiatives.
Carl Roothman, CEO of Sanlam Investments, feedback, “The theme of AGES 2025, Constructing a Local weather Resilient Africa: Catalysing Funding and Innovation within the Inexperienced and Blue Economies, aligns completely with our sustainability north star.”
“AGES presents a singular alternative for international traders to have interaction with economically enticing high-impact African initiatives, unlocking new pathways for sustainable progress. Final yr, investments have been dedicated in the direction of over 30 inexperienced initiatives valued at greater than US$1.4 billion. Because of this AGES is an important platform for aligning capital with Africa’s inexperienced and blue economic system targets. In 2025, we’d like a unified deal with investing in options that tackle Africa’s most pressing challenges, akin to clear power, resilient infrastructure and local weather change, whereas providing traders the prospects of compelling funding outcomes.”
Management and Experience at AGES 2025
AGES 2025 will deliver collectively main voices in sustainability and finance, together with:
• Abel Sakhau, Chief Sustainability Officer, Sanlam Group, South Africa • Andrew Johnstone, Chief Govt Officer, Local weather Fund Managers, the Netherlands • Ibrahim Shelleng, Senior Advisor to the President on Local weather Finance, Nigeria • Harsen Nyambe, Director of Sustainable Surroundings and Blue Economic system, African Union, Ethiopia
• James Mnyupe, Presidential Financial Advisor and Hydrogen Commissioner, Authorities of The Republic of Namibia
• Seewraj Nundlall, Director, Financial Growth Board, Mauritius • Geordin Hill-Lewis, Mayor, Metropolis of Cape City, South Africa
• Shameela Soobramoney, CEO, Nationwide Enterprise Initiative (NBI)
These consultants will present invaluable insights and sensible steering to assist form Africa’s inexperienced economic system and speed up its transition to a climate-resilient future.
Exploring inexperienced hydrogen and carbon market alternatives
The worldwide push for decarbonisation has made inexperienced hydrogen a cornerstone of sustainable power. Africa, with its ample renewable sources, is well-positioned to steer on this area. AGES 2025 will discover how investments and partnerships can unlock the potential of inexperienced hydrogen for each native and international affect.
Moreover, a pre-conference masterclass on navigating carbon market alternatives will present individuals with the instruments to optimise carbon revenues and drive impactful local weather motion.
2025: Targeted on affect
The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) formally named 2024 the warmest yr on document. Given the tempo of local weather change and its continent-wide affect, Roothman hopes 2025 will deliver renewed deal with these matters, a lot of which might be cornerstones of dialog at AGES:
• Renewable power enlargement: A big enhance in photo voltaic, wind and hydro initiatives. Sanlam Investments is supporting this by means of its personal stability sheet in addition to by means of funds such because the Sustainable Infrastructure Fund, funding business, industrial and utility scale initiatives, and the Resilient Funding Fund, backing SMEs like Power Companions to scale clear power options.
• Inexperienced hydrogen management: Southern Africa turning into a worldwide chief in inexperienced hydrogen, unlocking each export and native power alternatives, pushed in Namibia and South Africa by Sanlam Investments’ pioneering associate Local weather Fund Managers.
• Capital harvest: Establishing agricultural cultivations from the bottom as much as assist generate jobs and help extra households.
• Inclusive local weather finance: Empowering SMEs and underrepresented teams to entry and leverage climate-focused investments, enabling all African communities to profit from inexperienced progress.
• Sustainable funding: Extra investments in initiatives and companies that stability progress with environmental accountability, demonstrated by means of initiatives just like the Sanlam Residing Planet Fund, in partnership with WWF.
• Blue economic system initiatives: Harnessing Africa’s oceans and water sources for sustainable financial progress, with Local weather Fund Managers supporting Oceans Finance Firm (OFC) to shut the world’s largest debt-for-nature swap which is able to assist defend the Galapagos Islands, one of many planet’s most important ecosystems.
Be a part of AGES 2025
The summit provides a singular platform to attach, collaborate and speed up the inexperienced economic system throughout Africa. By bringing collectively international capital, cutting-edge options, and visionary management AGES 2025 will play a key position in advancing Africa’s inexperienced transition.
Roothman concludes, “Africa stands on the threshold of a transformative period. Sustainable investing is evolving, and there’s a rising want for traders to maneuver past conventional ESG concerns to deal with scalable and impactful investments. It’s time to cease speaking and desirous about coverage and regulation alone – it’s time for motion.
“From AGES, I need to see dedication to new, inexperienced alternatives for our nation and the continent. In South Africa, significantly, our nation is prime for inexperienced investments – for one, economically and secondly, we’ve the optimum local weather, open landscapes, the ocean, wind and
solar. At the moment, asset allocation in the direction of these investments is inadequate. AGES provides a platform for significant dialogue and actionable commitments to create lasting affect.”
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