Three weeks from now, the United Nations High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development will open its doors in New York. For energy professionals working across Africa and the Caribbean, HLPF 2026 is not a peripheral event — it is arguably the most consequential UN moment of the year for the sector. SDG 7, affordable and […]
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The clean energy investment story coming out of Africa in 2026 is, in headline terms, a good one. Multilateral development banks have made landmark commitments. Major corporate players have announced multi-billion dollar programmes. The Africa Forward Summit in May produced €27 billion in pledges that attracted global attention. The numbers are the largest they have […]
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The clock is running. The UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development opens in New York on July 7 — 22 days from now. For energy professionals, policymakers, and investors working in Africa and the Caribbean, this is not a diplomatic calendar item to monitor passively. It is the most significant global energy accountability moment […]
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In the 1990s, vast swathes of sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean archipelago skipped the landline telephone era entirely. They never built the copper wire networks that connected households in Europe and North America. Instead, they leapfrogged directly to mobile telephony — and in doing so, they became among the most mobile-first economies in the world. […]
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The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) released its 2026 World Energy Transitions Outlook earlier this year, and the headline message is both encouraging and sobering: renewable energy deployment is accelerating globally, but the pace and distribution of that acceleration remain deeply unequal. For Africa and the Caribbean, the Outlook contains critical signals for policymakers, investors, […]
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The investment window in African and Caribbean clean energy is not opening — it is already open, and it is the widest it has ever been. As of mid-2026, more capital has been committed to clean energy projects across Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean in the prior twelve months than in any comparable period in […]
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The 2026 Summit on Clean Cooking in Africa, scheduled for July 9–10 in Nairobi, has been canceled. Co-hosted by Kenya, Norway, the United States, and the International Energy Agency, it was to be one of the most significant clean energy convenings of the decade. That event is no longer happening. But the crisis that made […]
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A Continent at an Investment Inflection Point Africa is no longer a frontier energy market in the conventional sense — it is the frontier. As global clean energy investment surpassed fossil fuel spending for the first time in 2023 and continued its record-breaking trajectory through 2024 and 2025, a structural shift is underway: international capital […]
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On July 7, 2026, the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) opens at United Nations Headquarters in New York. Running through July 15 — with the ministerial segment from July 13 to 15 — it is the most consequential annual multilateral sustainability convening on the global calendar. And this year, it carries particular weight […]
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The Caribbean is at an inflection point. For decades, island economies across the region have been hostage to expensive imported fossil fuels — running diesel generators at some of the highest electricity costs in the world, exposed to every swing in global oil prices. Now, a convergence of regional policy ambition, multilateral financing, and rapidly […]
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