The UK-funded technical climate assistance programme Climate Finance Accelerator (CFA) South Africa has launched a fourth call for proposals for low-carbon businesses seeking investment for... 

Blended finance to support projects that reduce greenhouse-gas emissions or reduce the risks from future climate-related events is transitional in nature, a panel of investment and development... 

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has signed a memorandum of understanding and a licensing agreement with a California-based data and life sciences platform, PromptBio, to... 

National Energy Regulator of South Africa- (Nersa-) licensed renewable-energy buyer and trader Africa GreenCo has announced that Isabel Fick will be joining the company as group head of trading and... 

In its first report analysing the landscape of global standards, the World Bank has found that a proliferating set of international standards that covers everything from food labelling to the... 

Despite Johannesburg's population growing from 4.2-million in 2010 to 5.9-million in 2025, the amount of electricity the city sells is decreasing. City Power’s data shows a sharp drop. In 2009/10,... 

Somewhere in Linden, Johannesburg, Albertus Bekker is putting the finishing touches to a new violin after almost 150 hours of painstaking work. Bekker is what is known as a luthier – he handcrafts,... 

Bank of America Global Research yesterday reported that the US has lost three-quarters of its aluminium smelters, China has capped its aluminium production, US consumers are now having to pay the... 

Following its ordinary meeting on December 9, the Competition Commission has approved JSE-listed construction materials and industrial minerals company Afrimat’s proposed acquisition of Ochre... 

A US House committee on Wednesday approved a bill that would renew for another three years Washington's preferential trade programme for Africa, and there was no immediate mention of excluding... 

Renewable-energy provider Scatec has started commercial operation of the second 60 MW phase of the 120 MW Mmadinare Solar Cluster in Botswana, completing the country’s first utility-scale solar PV... 

Investment companies Mergence Investment Managers and Creation Capital have incorporated a new special purpose vehicle called Sustent Holdings, which has made an offer to buy JSE-listed renewable... 

Mining Weekly has just visited the laboratories that Rainbow Rare Earths has established very innovatively on the north-western fringe of Greater Johannesburg as part of its journey towards... 

Absa Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) acted as sole lead arranger and infrastructure finance structuring agent for the National Treasury’s R11.8-billion Infrastructure and Development Finance... 

JSE-listed real estate investment trust (Reit) Growthpoint has launched the new R26-million Sandton Drive Link Bridge as part of a larger effort to enhance safety, accessibility and walkability for... 

Strategy consulting business PwC Strategy&, in its December ‘South Africa Economic Outlook’ report, says South Africa’s real GDP per capita declined by a cumulative 4.2% over the past ten years....