Event to Spotlight Transformative Solutions for Net Zero, Energy Transition, and Climate Financing in Africa on November 19
Formerly known as the Africa Climate Tech Pitch Day, the newly rebranded Africa Climate Finance Day returns on November 19, 2024. This event, hosted by Impact Hub Lagos in partnership with Jordan Forester, will convene climate tech founders, investors, and stakeholders from Africa and the United States, catalyzing partnerships and investment for impactful climate solutions.
Africa Climate Finance Day will showcase pioneering startups tackling the continent’s pressing environmental issues. At the last event, participating startups raised approximately $1 million from attending investors and gained access to global accelerator programs, fast-tracking their paths to growth and impact. This year promises even more potential for meaningful connections and collaborations aimed at Africa’s sustainable future.
The event spotlights the essential role of collaborative climate financing in tackling Africa’s environmental challenges. By providing a platform for climate tech entrepreneurs to pitch pioneering solutions, Africa Climate Finance Day aims to connect innovators with the funding and resources needed to scale their impact. Attendees will benefit from exclusive access to investment-ready, transformative solutions targeting sustainability and climate resilience.
Event Highlights
- Date: November 19, 2024
- Location: Lagos, Nigeria
- Key Topics: Net Zero, Energy Transition, Climate Financing, and Scaling Climate Solutions in Africa
- Program: Startup pitches, panel discussions, and networking opportunities with leading climate finance players
“The Africa Climate Finance Day is a crucial meeting point for African and U.S. players to collaborate on driving climate tech innovations,” said Idowu Akinde, MD/CEO, Impact Hub Lagos. “Our goal is to channel impactful investments into deserving but otherwise-unseen Climate solutions for Africa.”
“Africa is the elephant in the room — and I’m not just talking about the injustice that Africa will bear most of the risk of the climate crisis despite contributing only 4% of global emissions,” says Jordan Forester, who helped build Courial (backed by Elemental Impact) after his Wall Street career. “With a population projected to make up a quarter of earth’s total by 2040, unfair geographic advantages (think geothermal abundance in Kenya for direct air capture), and increasingly competitive workforce, it feels silly to think Africa won’t be a driver of global decarbonization and massive returns for the investors who take early bets now. The “Flutterwave”s of climate tech are being built in Africa before our eyes. Attend this year’s African Climate Finance Day to meet a few of them. For me, I would bet on the elephant.”
Register to Attend
Climate tech founders, investors, and stakeholders interested in building a resilient climate ecosystem are invited to register at https://tinyurl.com/ACFD-2024
About Impact Hub Lagos
Impact Hub Lagos, a member of the Impact Hub Network, is an ecosystem enabler, accelerating inclusive and sustainable innovation at scale. Today, Impact Hub is the world’s largest network of social entrepreneurs, spanning 120+ Impact Hubs, 69+ countries, and 500,000 impact makers. Launched in September 2017, Impact Hub Lagos has worked relentlessly towards inspiring, connecting and enabling impact-driven entrepreneurs with the intellectual, social, and financial capital they need to drive and scale sustainable ventures that solve real problems. Impact Hub Lagos has successfully carried out projects in partnership with organizations like GIZ, UNDP, Verraki, Advantage Austria, Afrilabs and Google to name a few.
About Jordan Forester
Jordan Forester is an entrepreneur currently advising climate tech startups in emerging markets including Africa, Southeast Asia, and LatAm. Jordan co-founded Courial to democratize the gig economy and decarbonize the mobility sector, leading to investment from Elemental Impact. He began his career with NYC investment banks JPMorgan and BofA Merrill Lynch (energy leveraged finance) after studying economics at College of the Holy Cross in Boston. At Elemental, Jordan learned about the potential of applying new climate technologies such as carbon removal and green cement in emerging markets to fight the climate crisis.
