Africa's Green Economy Summit (AGES) 2026 opened in Cape Town in late February with the Climate, Carbon and Nature Financing Academy, a multi-day intensive programme designed to translate ambitious cl…
Mozambique's network of marine protected areas, covering nearly 10 percent of its vast Indian Ocean coastline, is demonstrating measurable recovery in coral reef ecosystems and fish populations that h…
Six nations sharing the Congo Basin — the world's second-largest tropical rainforest — have signed a landmark agreement that will channel billions of dollars in carbon credit revenues directly to fore…
South Africa's white and black rhino populations are showing the strongest recovery in a generation, as a combination of enhanced anti-poaching operations, private conservancy expansion, and internati…
Rwanda has maintained its status as one of the world's cleanest countries, sustaining a nationwide ban on single-use plastics that has been in force for over fifteen years and has fundamentally change…
Kenya's Maasai communities have demonstrated that traditional land stewardship and modern conservation science can combine to protect biodiversity at scale, with community conservancies in southern Ke…
The Okavango Delta, Botswana's jewel and one of the world's most extraordinary natural wonders, is thriving as a result of innovative community-based management systems that have aligned the economic …
Ethiopia has planted more trees than any nation in history as part of its Green Legacy Initiative, with the reforestation effort not only restoring degraded land but rebuilding the water cycles, soil …
Cape Verde, a small island nation of half a million people, has set and is systematically achieving the most ambitious climate targets of any African nation — a commitment to carbon neutrality by 2030…
The Congo Basin, home to the world's second largest tropical rainforest and a carbon store of global significance, is showing measurable signs of recovery in areas where community-based conservation p…
Zambia is implementing Africa's most ambitious wildlife corridor programme, establishing protected links between fragmented national parks and game management areas that allow elephant, lion, wild dog…