If you’re interested in the Saudi VCM event that took place in #nairobi this week, check out my blog eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%… My personal reflections on an inspiring event Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet FSD Kenya Bogolo Kenewendo Juliet Munro Nigel Topping Sustainable Energy for All

Mo Ibrahim in #paris at the #NewFinancingPact railing against the credit rating agencies for keeping the cost of capital for #africa excessively high - if this persists, he says, we can forget about private sector investment FSD Kenya Nigel Topping Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet

High Level Climate Champions Special Adviser .Bogolo Kenewendo talking to .@FSDAfrica Chair Frannie Leautier today at #NewFinancingPact about the urgent need for project dev’ment support to drive demand for #greenfinance Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office 🇬🇧 The Children's Investment Fund Foundation Bezos Earth Fund @IKEAFoundation

Honoured and grateful to have .⁦Chapel Hill Denham⁩ CEO Baloji Balogun joining ⁦@FSDAfrica⁩’s Capital Market Roundtable in #lagos this morning ⁦Pension Fund Operators Association Of Nigeria⁩ ⁦InfraCredit⁩

Excellent piece on developing country debt from Egypt’s High Level Climate Champion .Mahmoud Mohieldin - characteristically impassioned bit.ly/3YozjYJ Bogolo Kenewendo Nigel Topping #sdg Center for Global Development ODI Global | odi-global.bsky.social @FSDAfrica

Former ⁦Women's World Banking⁩ Africa Advisory Board member ⁦Dr Monique Nsanzabaganwa⁩ and now Dep Chair of the ⁦African Union⁩ Commission urging partners “to trust us [AU] more” to deliver on #climatefinance ⁦@FSDAfrica⁩ ⁦Arunma Oteh OON⁩ ⁦Mary Ellen Iskenderian⁩

How can #africa’s city leaders mobilise upfront capital to insulate their cities from climate change and deliver jobs and basic services at the same time. Awesome responsibility for them. Come to today’s event at ACS ⁦Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE⁩ ⁦Sakaja Arthur Johnson⁩ ⁦Nasra Nanda⁩

Have had an inspiring 2 days in Nairobi with host and C40 Cities Vice Chair for Africa, Nairobi Governor H.E. Sakaja Johnson, other #C40Cities Mayors and the regional secretariat team! I am attending the #AfricaClimateSummit in my capacity as outgoing #C40Cities Vice Chair for

Packed house for the launch of the Gender Bonds Toolkit by ⁦@FSDAfrica⁩ and ⁦UN Women Africa⁩ - profound thanks to all our partners on this ⁦FSDNetwork⁩ ⁦Gates Foundation⁩ - especially authors ⁦@ParallelleFin⁩ ⁦British International Investment⁩ ⁦MFA Luxembourg 🇱🇺⁩

Kudos to FSD Kenya on the launch of the county green finance assessment report - an exciting moment for sub-national green financing FSDNetwork @FSDAfrica Tamara Cook #ClimateFinance

President Samia Suluhu Hassan of Tanzania speaking at the clean cooking summit in #paris today, hosted by .⁦International Energy Agency⁩. She highlighted “the need to recognise the essential role of gas in Africa’s energy transition” ⁦Clean Cooking Alliance (CCA)⁩ ⁦FSDNetwork⁩ ⁦African Development Bank Group⁩

At International Energy Agency clean cooking summit where #norway just announced $50m for clean cooking and where African Development Bank Group just announced it would spend $2bn on clean cooking in next 10 years - or 20% of total energy spend…

Interesting fact from ⁦Simon Stiell⁩ of .⁦UN Climate Change⁩ - only 60 of the #ndcs from LICs have commitments on clean cooking. With the NDCs being updated this year, there’s an opportunity to elevate clean cooking as a priority ⁦International Energy Agency⁩ ⁦Climate & Clean Air Coalition⁩ ⁦⁦

Great insights from Mark Napier during the opening of #Ancasummit2024.

Many congrats to Equity Bank Kenya on the launch of their #EquitySustainabilityReport2023 - another milestone in the bank’s remarkable journey. Delighted to reconnect with G Wamala after so many years! CGAP FSD Uganda FSD Kenya

Very gracious words from Dr James Mwangi Equity Bank Kenya acknowledging Reshma Shah’s role in driving sustainability at the bank - two agents of change working together. Best of luck to Oscar in the equity sustainability role! @fsdkenya Tamara Cook Juliet Munro

If you are at the #hsc2024 Hamburg Sustainability Conference join our “solutions pitch” at 3pm in the Boersensaal - I am pitching financing solutions with friends at CIFOR-ICRAF - should be good! UN Environment Programme CGAP WWF Deutschland Bundesentwicklungsministerium ODI Global | odi-global.bsky.social The Nature Conservancy @ANCAlliance

Climate finance in #africa is on the up - but at $44bn is still less than a quarter of what’s needed. Did an interview on this on CNBC Africa after launching the latest Landscape report we did with Climate Policy Initiative. bit.ly/3CgfKel Barbara Buchner Center for Global Development @cgap @FSDAfrica

⁦Sixt Rent a Car⁩ OMG one hour late opening - shop still not@oke . Lots of angry customers

So this is ⁦Sixt Rent a Car⁩ at Victoria Station - where we were told the only Sixt person here is attending to another customer in the car park. Apparently that’s not even true!! 75 mins late opening