During London Climate Action Week (LCAW), Africa Investor (Ai) released two flagship publications in support of the historic South African G20 Presidency, advocating for significant changes in nature-based investing and global climate finance.
The Sustainable Markets Initiative (SMI) Investable Asset Classes Working Group and Africa Investor collaborated to create the G20 Nature Investment Roadmap 2.0, which calls on G20 leaders to embrace a strategic change that acknowledges natural capital as a real, productive public asset. The roadmap warns that if nature and ecosystem services are not protected, the global economy could lose $80 trillion over the next 25 years. It provides a workable framework for incorporating ecosystem services into national accounts, sovereign balance sheets, and public investment strategies.
The GEMs 3.0 Institutional Investor User Survey, created with assistance from EY and published concurrently by Africa Investor, gathers information from a subset of SMI institutional members that oversee more than $6 trillion in assets. According to the poll, top investors are using artificial intelligence (AI) and digital platforms to open up low-carbon investment and transition finance opportunities in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs). The results confirm that AI-driven asset allocation is quickly becoming a game-changing tool for large-scale long-term institutional capital mobilization.
As stated by Dr. Hubert Danso, CEO and Chairman of Africa Investor and Co-Chair of the SMI Africa Council, “these groundbreaking Institutional Investor–Public Partnership initiatives for Emerging Markets and Developing Economies (EMDEs), announced at London Climate Week, are crucial milestones on the road to COP30 in Brazil, Africa’s G20 in South Africa, and next year’s G7 in France.” “Let’s be the market—and move beyond ‘Theory of Change’ and ‘Change the Theory,'” Dr. Danso said, thanking the SMI, ecosystem collaborators, and institutional investment leaders for furthering this crucial work.
When taken as a whole, these reports highlight Africa Investor’s creative leadership in providing investable, scalable frameworks that strengthen institutional investor-public partnerships, speed up climate action, preserve the environment, and promote green industrialization both in Africa and globally. They demonstrate that global investors can benefit from risk-adjusted, mandate-aligned, and resilient portfolios that are beneficial to both Africa and the planet.
