Archive for March 2023
Blended finance: Mobilising capital to avert Africa’s climate crisis
This month, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an advisory body to the UN, published its latest report on global warming. The conclusions were alarming: hitting the target of ensuring that the world’s temperature does not rise by more than 1.5°C is all but impossible, with this ceiling likely to be breached by as…
Read MoreMining Elites in Africa 2023: Health and Safety Winner – AngloGold Ashanti
To counter the problem, AngloGold Ashanti’s Iduapriem mine in Ghana has introduced a successful fatigue management system to limit the health and safety risks related to fatigue. Called ‘Life by SmartCap’, the system has shown an 18% increase in alertness levels among employees over a 12-month period. This improvement was seen at all hours of…
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