Blended Finance: Key to Affordable ‘Green’ Housing Delivery in Nigeria

  From Billions to Trillions In the lead up to the Paris Climate Summit of 2015, it became clear that efforts at achieving the ambitious targets of the SDG’s, would require equally ambitious efforts at utilising the “billions” in ODA (official Development Assistance) and available development resources to attract, leverage, and mobilize “trillions” in investments…

Is Green Building Really New to Africans?

According to the IFC, buildings account for about 40% of global energy consumption and 19% of greenhouse gas emissions. Given these statistics, reducing energy and resource consumption in buildings is increasingly becoming a focus of efforts at mitigating the effects of global climate change. In the lead up to COP21, buildings were recognized and identified…