Powering Africa’s carbon future, together.
Meet the organisations helping shape a high-integrity, inclusive carbon market for Africa.
We are proud to collaborate with strategic partners committed to shaping Africa’s carbon market future:
Host organisation
UNDP
UNDP is the United Nations’ lead agency on international development. We support countries and communities to eradicate poverty while protecting the planet. We advocate for transformative change, and we connect countries to the resources they need to help people build a better life, creating trust-rich pathways by which leaders, organisations, and societies can thrive.
Strategic partner
AUDA-NEPAD
AUDA-NEPAD is the African Union Development Agency, the technical body for implementing Agenda 2063, which coordinates projects in areas like technology, R&D, and regional integration to support sustainable development across the continent. It offers technical and capacity-building support to African countries and their Regional Economic Communities (RECs) in sectors such as food and nutrition, energy, water, and biosciences.
Diamond sponsor
TASC
TASC is a carbon project developer headquartered in Cape Town, with projects across South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Uganda, and Australia. Since 2019, TASC has distributed over 1.2 million clean household devices (including more than 950,000 in South Africa alone) and manages over 700,000 hectares under regenerative agricultural practices. To date, the company has issued more than 10 million verified carbon credits.
Focused on high-integrity, scalable climate solutions, TASC is committed to building a carbon market that works for Africa. Its projects are rooted in science, shaped by community realities, and designed to deliver measurable benefits for people and ecosystems alike — ensuring carbon finance flows where it matters most.
Gold sponsors
Trees for the Future
As a UN World Restoration Flagship, TREES is recognized as one of the best large-scale ecosystem restoration efforts on the planet. The prestigious Flagship award is part of an effort by the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration to ensure that measurable progress is made on the UN’s environmental goals by 2030.
We believe in a world where farmers leave a legacy of opportunity through sustainable land practices. We are witnessing farmers reclaiming their agency, breaking the cycles of climate change and generational poverty, and rebuilding our food systems from the ground up.
Our mission is to improve livelihoods of impoverished farmers by revitalizing degraded lands.
SGS
SGS is the world’s leading Testing, Inspection and Certification company. We operate a network of over 2,500 laboratories and business facilities across 115 countries, supported by a team of 99,500 dedicated professionals. With over 145 years of service excellence, we combine the precision and accuracy that define Swiss companies to help organizations achieve the highest standards of quality, compliance and sustainability.
Our brand promise – when you need to be sure – underscores our commitment to trust, integrity and reliability, enabling businesses to thrive with confidence. We proudly deliver our expert services through the SGS name and trusted specialized brands, including Brightsight, Bluesign, Maine Pointe and Nutrasource.
Silver sponsors
Our aim is to mobilise capital, especially domestic private capital, to provide long-term financing for Africa’s development needs and create systemic change in the financial markets. Based in Nairobi, our team of financial sector experts works alongside governments, business leaders, regulators and policymakers to design and build ambitious programmes that make financial markets work better for everyone. We support market development through policy and regulatory reform, thought leadership and capacity support. Our investment arm, FSD Africa Investments, provides early-stage, risk-bearing, catalytic and patient capital to innovative commercial organisations to stimulate capital flows in support of green economic growth, benefiting people and planet. Established in 2012, FSD Africa is incorporated as a non-profit company limited by guarantee in Kenya. It is funded by UK aid from the UK government.
FSD Africa
Poly Renewable Energy PTY Ltd
Africa Carbon Coin (ACC) is a blockchain-powered, SAP-integrated marketplace that tokenises Verra-certified carbon credits, linking Africa’s climate assets to global compliance and voluntary markets. Delivering secure, transparent, and scalable climate finance, ACC harnesses the 5th Industrial Revolution to advance Africa’s leadership in sustainable investment, inclusive growth, and climate technology innovation.
GIZ
As a service provider in the field of international cooperation for sustainable development and international education work, we are dedicated to shaping a future worth living around the world. We have over 50 years of experience in a wide variety of areas, including economic development and employment promotion, energy and the environment, and peace and security. The diverse expertise of our federal enterprise is in demand around the globe – from the German Government, European Union institutions, the United Nations, the private sector, and governments of other countries. We work with businesses, civil society actors and research institutions, fostering successful interaction between development policy and other policy fields and areas of activity. Our main commissioning party is the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
Knowledge partners
Climate Policy Initiative
CPI is an analysis and advisory organization with deep expertise in finance and policy. Our mission is to help governments, businesses, and financial institutions drive economic growth while addressing climate change. CPI has seven offices around the world in Brazil, India, Indonesia, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Frost & Sullivan
Frost & Sullivan is a global strategy consulting and market intelligence firm with a long-standing presence in Africa. Frost & Sullivan helps organisations advance by informing them of market dynamics, advising on how to respond to these dynamics, and connecting them to relevant stakeholders in Africa and beyond.
Supporting organisations
The Global Trust Project
The Global Trust Project is a multidisciplinary advisory, consultancy and learning practice working to enable trust-rich pathways at personal, professional and societal levels. Trust is a cornerstone of human flourishing at all levels and across all domains. Grounded in a scientifically validated approach to diagnose, measure, develop and amplify trust, The Global Trust Project is dedicated to building trust by co-creating trust-rich pathways by which leaders, organisations, and societies can thrive.
ABAN
Established in 2015, the African Business Angel Network (ABAN) is the largest pan-African organization of angel investors. ABAN supports early-stage ecosystems across Africa by providing essential human and financial capital to startups, driving job creation continent-wide. Today, ABAN spans 72 members in 35 African countries and the Diaspora, representing over 5,000 angel investors.
SACEEC
The SACEEC represents the capital equipment and project sector for new projects and the aftermarket. It is also the endorsed representative body for the consulting engineers and their associated bodies, merchant bankers – with reference to their involvement in financing capital projects, capital equipment suppliers and suppliers of services to the capital project sector.
The SACEEC is an indispensable part of the globalisation of the Southern African industry and provides a facilitating role in assisting capital equipment sector companies to grow their business through exporting.
GreenCape
GreenCape is a not-for-profit company that drives the widespread adoption of economically viable green economy solutions from South Africa. GreenCape works with businesses, investors, academia and government to help unlock the investment and employment potential of green technologies and services, and to support a transition to a resilient green economy. GreenCape was established in 2010 to support the development of South Africa’s green economy.
SAVCA
The Southern African Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (SAVCA) is a non-profit industry association, representing over 230 members in Southern Africa, who collectively manage in excess of R237bn in assets.
SAVCA promotes Southern African private equity, private debt, and venture capital by engaging with regulators and legislators on a range of matters affecting the industry; providing relevant and insightful thought leadership and research on aspects that impact the industry; offering training and capacity building opportunities to stakeholders in the ecosystem; and by creating meaningful networking opportunities for industry players, investors and capital seekers.
In print and online, the Startups Magazine team works hard to deliver unique content to startups providing valuable insights from industry experts, advice on business fundamentals and most importantly - a platform to introduce tech startups to the world stage.
NBI
The National Business Initiative (NBI) is a coalition of companies driving sustainable growth in South Africa since 1995. As a partner of global initiatives, NBI focuses on environmental sustainability, economic growth, social transformation, and strengthening government capacity through thought leadership and collective action. The NBI’s vision is that of a sustainable, equitable and thriving society that makes South Africa one of the world’s greatest places to live, work and conduct business in.
AVCA
AVCA acts as the trusted independent source of information, insight, and intelligence inspiring investor confidence; making the case for both commercial returns and impact of private capital in Africa.
As the voice of the industry, they represent a community of capital allocators, investors, fund managers, advisors, entrepreneurs and professional services committed to our shared vision of a prosperous Africa that is sustainable, inclusive, and innovative.
CAMAK
CAMAK Description: The Carbon Markets Association of Kenya (CAMAK) is a platform focused on developing and regulating the carbon market in Kenya. It serves as a voice for the sector, promoting best practices, ensuring market integrity, and advocating for progressive policies. CAMAK also plays a crucial role in aligning Kenya's carbon credit supply with global market demands.
Host media
ESI Africa
ESI Africa – Africa’s trusted power, energy and utility multimedia platform – is positioned as an impartial industry mouthpiece, delivering the latest technical developments, breaking news and analysis in both print and digital formats.
Since 1996, ESI Africa has presented unique market opportunities to buyers and sellers, facilitating sector stakeholder engagement through key event media partnerships and our position as the official Host Media publication of Africa's Green Economy Summit. Thus, the brand’s various routes to market are expertly primed to build a bridge between readers and solution providers as ESI Africa sifts through the daily noise and delivers the tale of Africa’s sustainable transformation to the African and global market.
Media Partners
Africa.com
Founded in 2010 by Teresa Clarke, Africa.com embodies a powerful vision to redefine perceptions of Africa, breaking stereotypes and revealing the continent’s rich complexity. Through an array of platforms, Africa.com seeks to inspire, educate, and entertain while fostering a positive narrative that highlights Africa’s accomplishments and advancements. More than just a media outlet, Africa.com represents a genuine passion for Africa’s growth and potential, capturing its true essence as a land of boundless opportunities, talents, and possibilities.
Africa Sustainability Matters
At Africa Sustainability Matters, we are passionate advocates for positive change and sustainable development across the African continent. Our platform serves as a dynamic hub where ideas, innovation, and collaboration converge to address pressing environmental, social, and economic challenges facing Africa today.
Argus Media
Argus is the leading independent provider of market intelligence to the global energy and commodity markets. We offer essential price assessments, news, analytics, consulting services, data science tools and industry conferences to illuminate complex and opaque commodity markets.
Headquartered in London with 1,500 staff, Argus is an independent media organisation with 30 offices in the world’s principal commodity trading hubs.
Companies, trading firms and governments in 160 countries around the world trust Argus data to make decisions, analyse situations, manage risk, facilitate trading and for long-term planning. Argus prices are used as trusted benchmarks around the world for pricing transportation, commodities and energy. Founded in 1970, Argus remains a privately held UK-registered company owned by employee shareholders and global growth equity firm General Atlantic.
Carbon Credits
CarbonCredits.com is your source for carbon news, carbon pricing, carbon investment opportunities and more.
Our research focuses on the Carbon Markets, Oil and Gas, Alternative Energy and Green Technology, generating and distributing cutting-edge news, market insights and data to a global audience.
We are recognized as a trusted voice in commodities information, providing the best-in-class news, data and insights. CarbonCredits.com is committed to building a net zero future and bringing you the best in intelligence.
At CarbonCredits.com, our goal is to be a leading platform for promoting environmental sustainability through the dissemination of knowledge and access to carbon credits.
Carbon Pulse
Carbon Pulse is an online, subscription-based B2B service that has become the go-to source of breaking news and intelligence for compliance and voluntary carbon markets. More recently, we have expanded our offering to the broader net zero agenda and emerging nature & biodiversity credits. See What we offer or Register for a free 2-week trial.
Construct Africa
Construct Africa is the leading provider of news, analysis, industry reports, data and project intelligence relating to construction, infrastructure and the built environment in Africa. Construct Africa’s products and solutions provide decision-makers, investors and construction industry stakeholders with clear insights into African construction markets, enabling them to identify business opportunities and make informed opinions about the future of the industry and trends.
Engineering News
Engineering News is South Africa’s premier source of weekly real economy news on projects, products, policies, personalities and technoeconomic progress, covering a wide range of industries – from agroprocessing to information technology. Each week, 13 604 copies are circulated and read by 40 481 readers. The Engineering News Online website provides real-time news reportage through originated written, video and audio material. A mobile version of Engineering News Online is available at m.engineeringnews.co.za and Engineering News apps are available for iPhone and Android devices.
Global Africa Network
Global Africa Network Media is a publishing company in South Africa, producing print and digital business-to-business publications, including a series of annual journals profiling South Africa and each of its nine provinces as business and investment destinations, and quarterly magazines such as the Journal of African Business and Opportunity providing information about business and investment in Southern Africa and the rest of Africa.
Our monthly digital newsletter, TradeInvestAfrica, promotes business, trade and investment in Africa.
Green Economy Media
GreenEconomy.Media is a media company focused on policy, thought leadership, best practice, technology and innovation in the green economy in South Africa and regionally. Their content communicates the fundamental issues and facilitates the action needed for a more environmentally responsible production into the future.
The Green Agenda
We are a Multi-Media company focused on the green economy in South Africa, down the value chain of industry, covering all sectors of Sustainable Development. The Green Economy is here to stay. The Green Agenda advocates for innovation, transitioning the economy toward our sustainable future. The Green Agenda Magazine serves to establish thinking of business and social leaders who recognise ‘’sustainability’’ and grow within a developing economy and conceptualizing the impact of green in terms of sustainability, along with the environment responsibility in economic development.
Startups Magazine
Startups Magazine is a publication which champions tech startups - the entrepreneurial heroes disrupting industries and the creators’ challenging norms and breaking boundaries. In print and online, the Startups Magazine team works hard to deliver unique content to startups providing valuable insights from industry experts, advice on business fundamentals and most importantly - a platform to introduce tech startups to the world stage. Subscribers of the publication have access to so much! You can read gold-dust content from experts, receive upcoming issues, be the first to be invites to events and can have their own startup featured editorially!
Mining Review Africa
Mining Review Africa is the premier, multi-media industry engagement platform focused on Africa’s diverse mining sector. Our diverse digital offering is an engagement tool for the African mining community, facilitated by an editorial team with 30+ years of experience in the field. Mining Review Africa’s focus is to bring you the highest standard of technical content and mining-relevant news on a daily basis.
Highways Today
Highways.Today is the leading website featuring News, Information and Resources for the International Infrastructure Construction Industry, including news on international contracts; roads; airports; bridges; tunnels; rail; infrastructure; plant; equipment; and the latest technologies.
Partner event
Africa’s Green Economy Summit (AGES)
AGES is a unique platform dedicated to explore the vast potential of green investments in Africa and to support the development of green projects that will drive a sustainable, equitable and a net-zero economy. Under the 2025 theme: "Building a climate resilient Africa: Catalysing investment and innovation in the green and blue economies", the summit addressed five key thematics: climate finance, biodiversity and nature, regulation and policies, building and maintaining sustainable cities and green industrialisation.
Brought to you by
Go Green Africa
A unique and motivated cohort of industry influencers connect under a shared mission of a net zero Africa, with a diversified and sustainable economy able to provide all of its citizens with the desired quality of life. Africa will need to embrace the green transformation that is now underway across the globe and Go Green Africa is starting this journey in Cape Town, with an initial focus on the e-mobility sector and the huge opportunity that it holds to drive this transition.
Do you want to become a partner?
Partnering as a media or supporting organisation with the Carbon Markets Africa Summit offers mutual value—amplifying your brand’s visibility while supporting vital conversations on climate finance in Africa.
It’s a chance to align with a high-impact platform driving policy, investment, and community-led solutions across the continent.
Reach out now to find out how to become a partner