Committed to a sustainable, prosperous Africa

There is no doubt: the multiple impacts of climate change are disproportionately more damaging to Africa than any other part of the world. Climate action is integral to solving the continent’s most-pressing issues, and the private sector has a critical role to play.

The Africa Business Leaders Coalition (ABLC) is committed to sustainable development and ambitious climate action by bringing the perspectives of African CEOs and Board Chairs into the global conversation.

Africa Business Leaders’ Climate Statement

At COP27 – the African COP – in Sharm El Sheikh, the ABLC released the African Business Leaders’ Climate Statement. This statement, informed by the six regional roundtable discussions held by the ABLC from June to August, and signed by 56 African companies from a diverse range of sectors, includes commitments around adaptation and resilience, a just transition and mitigation, and calls to action for the international community to support the African continent in these endeavors.

We commit to participate in the UN Global Compact and to uphold its Ten Principles in our business practices and with our suppliers and customers.

We commit to develop robust company resilience plans to improve our adaptive capacity and build systemic resilience by explicitly accounting for climate risks in our business and investments and enabling our suppliers to do the same.

We commit to uphold the guiding principles of a just transition as central to all our climate actions and advocacy, starting with developing company-level just transition plans, ensuring no one is left behind.

We commit to set company targets to drastically increase the share of renewables in our energy use that will contribute to the continental ambition of 27% of renewable power generation by 2030.

We call on the international community to fulfil and enhance the 100-billion-dollar goal by 2023 at the latest and ensure that at least 50% is invested in adaptation and resilience.

We call for the creation of an enabling environment that facilitates increased access to finance and ensures that African businesses can leverage global markets to accelerate the transition to a future fit economy.

We call African Governments to translate climate plans, such as their NDCs and NAPs, into pipelines of bankable climate projects.

We call on the international community to promote technology and knowledge exchange to make decarbonization and adaptation technologies and knowledge more accessible to local companies, communities, and Governments.

We commit to elevate the voice of the African private sector and bring the African perspective to global stages – such as COP27 – to advocate for the sustainable prosperity of our people, our businesses, and our continent.





Signatories

  • Arrie Rautenbach, Group CEO
    ABSA GROUP LIMITED
    South Africa
  • Dr. Herbert Wigwe, CEO
    ACCESS CORPORATION
    Nigeria
  • Segun Ogunsanya, CEO & Managing Director
    AIRTEL AFRICA PLC
    Nigeria
  • Stephan Saad, Chief Executive & Head of Board
    ASPEN PHARMACARE HOLDINGS LIMITED
    South Africa
  • Hassanein Hiridjee, Co-CEO
    AXIAN
    Madagascar
  • Seddiq Hassani, Group Managing Director
    BAMBURI CEMENT
    Kenya
  • Brahim Benjelloun Touimi, Director and General Manager
    BANK OF AFRICA
    Morocco
  • Olukayode Pitan, Managing Director & CEO
    BANK OF INDUSTRY
    Nigeria
  • Habib Ben Saad, CEO
    BANQUE DE TUNISIE
    Tunisia
  • Mohamed Agrebi, General Manager
    BANQUE INTERNATIONALE ARABE DE TUNISIE SOCIÉTÉ ANONYME
    Tunisia
  • Mohamed Mahmoud Eletreby, Chairperson
    BANQUE MISR
    Egypt
  • Nompumelelo Madisa, CEO
    BIDVEST
    South Africa
  • Charles Kimani Njuguna, Acting Group Managing Director
    BRITAM HOLDINGS PLC
    Kenya
  • Bolaji Balogun, CEO
    CHAPEL HILL DENHAM
    Nigeria
  • Bertina Engelbrecht, CEO
    CLICKS GROUP LIMITED
    South Africa
  • Nasim Mohamed Devji, Group CEO, Managing Director & Executive Director
    DIAMOND TRUST BANK KENYA LIMITED
    Kenya
  • Rita Maria Zniber, CEO & Chairperson
    DIANA HOLDING
    Morocco
  • Jane Karuku, Group Managing Director & CEO
    EAST AFRICAN BREWERIES LIMITED
    Kenya
  • Ademola Ayeyemi, Group CEO
    ECOBANK TRANSNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Nigeria
  • Sebastien de Montessus, CEO, President & Board Member
    ENDEAVOUR MINING PLC
    MNC
  • Dr. James Mwangi, CEO
    EQUITY GROUP HOLDINGS PLC
    Kenya
  • Adesola Adeduntan, Managing Director/CEO
    FIRST BANK OF NIGERIA LIMITED
    Nigeria
  • Omoboyede Olusanya, CEO & Group Managing
    FLOUR MILLS OF NIGERIA PLC
    Nigeria
  • Karim Dostmohamed, General Manager
    FRIGOKEN LIMITED
    Kenya
  • Hichem Elloumi, Chairperson & CEO
    GROUPE ELLOUMI (COFICAB)
    Tunisia
  • Phumzile Langeni, Chairman and Non-Executive Director
    IMPERIAL LOGISTICS LTD
    South Africa
  • Hend el Sherbini, CEO
    INTEGRATED DIAGNOSTICS HOLDINGS (IDH)
    Egypt
  • Karim Bernoussi, CEO
    INTELCIA
    Morocco
  • Fani Titi, CEO
    INVESTEC GROUP
    South Africa
  • Galeb Gulam, CEO
    IPS KENYA
    Kenya
  • Juliet Anammah, Chairperson & Group Chief Sustainability Officer
    JUMIA
    Nigeria
  • Paul Russo, CEO & Managing Director
    KCB GROUP PLC
    Kenya
  • Dr. Toseef Din, CEO
    M P SHAH HOSPITAL
    Kenya
  • Imad Toumi, Chairperson & CEO
    MANAGEM S.A.
    Morocco
  • Phuthi Mahanyele-Dabengwa, CEO, South Africa
    NASPERS
    South Africa
  • Stephen Gitagama, Group CEO
    NATION MEDIA GROUP PLC
    Kenya
  • Iain Williamson, CEO
    OLD MUTUAL LIMITED
    South Africa
  • Alioune Ndiaye, CEO of Orange Middle East & Africa
    ORANGE S.A.
    MNC
  • Yasmine Mohamed Farid Khamis, Chair
    ORIENTAL WEAVERS
    Egypt
  • Mohamed Mahjoub LANGAR, CEO
    POULINA GROUP HOLDING S.A.
    Tunisia
  • Ahmed Heikal, Founder & Executive Board Member
    QALAA HOLDINGS S.A.E.
    Egypt
  • Tarek El Gamal, Chairperson
    REDCON CONSTRUCTION
    Egypt
  • Peter Ndegwa, CEO
    SAFARICOM LIMITED
    Kenya
  • Paul Hanratty, Group CEO
    SANLAM LIMITED
    South Africa
  • Tavaziva Madzinga, CEO
    SANTAM LIMITED
    South Africa
  • Alexander van Coller Thiel, CEO of Sappi Southern Africa
    SAPPI LIMITED
    South Africa
  • Martin R. Ochien’g, Group Managing Director
    SASINI PLC
    Kenya
  • Helmy Abouleish, CEO
    SEKEM GROUP
    Egypt
  • Yaseen Abdel-Ghaffar, Managing Director
    SOLARIZE EGYPT
    Egypt
  • Orlando Lyomu, Group CEO
    STANDARD MEDIA GROUP
    Kenya
  • Mohammed Bouzoubaâ, CEO
    TRAVAUX GÉNÉRAUX DE CONSTRUCTION DE CASABLANCA S.A
    Morocco
  • Chris Jardine, CEO
    TSEBO SOLUTIONS GROUP (PTY) LTD
    South Africa
  • Peter Njonjo, CEO
    TWIGA FOODS
    Kenya
  • Dr. Amir Barsoum, CEO & Co-founder
    VEZEETA
    Egypt
  • Mohamed Shameel Aziz Joosub, CEO
    VODACOM GROUP LIMITED
    South Africa