CASI Co-hosts Africa Sustainability Forum as G20 Side Event

Capacity-building Alliance of Sustainable Investment (CASI) Benin Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Chad Comoros Cote d'Ivoire Djibouti Ethiopia Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea Equatorial Guinea Kenya Liberia Madagascar Mali Namibia Niger Nigeria Central African Republic Congo, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, The Republic of the Senegal Sierra Leone South Africa Sudan Tanzania Tonga Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe Algeria Angola Botswana Cape Verde Egypt Eritrea Guinea-Bissau Lesotho Libya Malawi Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Rwanda Sao Tome and Principe Seychelles South Sudan Swaziland Togo Tunisia

Ma Jun, Chairman of CASI, believes that Africa's has significant potentials for green growth, citing its vast renewable energy resources and carbon sinks. He noted that Africa' s sustainable finance market could focus on investing in renewable energy, greening its mining and agriculture sectors, and supplying carbon credits to the rest of the world.

Marcos Neto, UN Assistant Secretary-General and Director of UNDP's Bureau for Policy and Programme Support, Head of Secretariat for G20 Sustainable Finance Working Group (SFWG), highlighted the urgent need for capacity-building in sustainable finance across Africa and acknowledged the important role CASI can play.

Gcobisa Magazi, Director of the Deputy-Director General Office of South Africa National Treasury,  spoke on behalf of the South African G20 Presidency.  She highlighted the need to develop a robust sustainable taxonomy and to improve interoperability of taxonomies across jurisdictions.

Nan Li Collins, Senior Director of Investment and Enterprise at UNCTAD, stressed the importance of transparency, reliable data, and regulatory oversight to build investor trust and scale sustainable investment in developing markets.

At the Forum, CASI released new online learning modules – with 26 modules available to learners now -- and AI-powered learning tools with multilingual functions. It was also announced that the next CASI Sustainability Forum would be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in July 2025.

Since its launch at COP28 at end-2023, CASI has provided capacity building and TA services to over 5000 participants from over 50 countries and jurisdictions, most of which are emerging markets and developing economies.

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