sustainable development goals

In a major step toward digital sustainability, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has launched a new machine-readable Sustainability Taxonomy, offering African companies a timely opportunity to modernize and harmonize ESG reporting.

In a move expected to strengthen environmental accountability and ethical business practices across Kenya’s agribusiness sector, Del Monte Kenya Limited has officially joined the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative. 

The European Union has launched the Horizon Europe Work Programme 2025, unveiling the “Africa Initiative III”—a funding envelope of €500.5 million dedicated to Africa-focused research and innovation.

How can we lift millions out of poverty, create more than 600 million jobs, reduce inequalities, protect the environment and grow the economy? This question is what government leaders, innovators,…

Last week, I wrote about impact investing and mentioned that one of the ways of financing such projects is via bonds—green, social and sustainability ones. As a result, readers reached…

The New Year has rolled around, coming along with new goals to score. While many efforts have been made ever since the global community adopted the sustainable development goals (SDGs)…

It is now clear that COVID-19 has brought with it challenges that have drastically affected the 17 sustainable goals with the main focus of this report being two goals; Health…

Nordic countries led by Sweden and Denmark have cemented their sustainability profiles, occupying the top three spots in the sustainable development goals (SDGs) index. The SDG index tracks country performance…

Telecommunications giant Safaricom believes that embedding green behaviour across the entire value chain can mean black ink, not just a better society and business longevity. In Kenya, the telco is…