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Activists in Paris Wednesday called out two banks involved in the financing of a controversial fossil fuel project in East Africa, part of a coordinated

TotalEnergies owns 62% of the company which holds the licence for the pipeline. SMBC are financial advisors to EACOPs operators and South Africas Standard Bank.

Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana is delivering the 2023 Budget Speech to the National Assembly at Cape Town City Hall.

Proposals submitted to several of the largest U.S. banks seek stronger commitments on reducing financing for the fossil-fuel industry and 2030 greenhouse gas emission targets.

Long before environmental, social, and governance ("ESG") entered the corporate world's vernacular, these principles were very much present in various aspects of project development and in the policies...

Investegate announcements from The Mauritius Commercial Bank, Mauritius Commercial Bank Limited (MCB) Acts as Mandated Lead Arranger in Apex’s Egyptian Natural Gas Investment

DJ Mauritius Commercial Bank Limited (MCB) Acts as Mandated Lead Arranger in Apex's Egyptian Natural Gas Investment The Mauritius Commercial Bank Ltd (MCB) Mauritius Commercial Bank Limited (MCB)

MZIMBA DISTRICT, Malawi — For 16 years, people in villages around the Kanyika hills in Mzimba district in northern Malawi have lived with uncertainty and anxiety. In 2006, an Australian firm, Globe Metals & Mining, began exploration for rare earth metals niobium and tantalum in the Kanyika hills. By 2012, the firm had confirmed enough […]

In a small room at a safe house owned by a human rights group in rural Liberia, away from prying eyes and passing ears, Decontee explains why she quit her job on the Salala plantation. It was hard work, setting out at 5:30 in the morning every day to trek through the rows of tall […]

A recent Harvard study indicates 81% of institutional investors in the US and 83.6% in Europe plan to increase their ESG allocations over the next two years.