This chapter addresses Russian environmental finance from a different angle than most of the chapters in this book. The discussion focuses on how Russian companies and Russia, generally, engage in outward investment activity within the Southern African countries.This chapter is based on the...

Russia's direct investment of about USD 3 billon in Southern Africa over the past decade has placed before the country's government and corporate sector two choices in the accelerating race among foreign investors into Africa. The first choice is to follow the established path of direct...

The Russian attack on Ukraine in February 2022 shook continental geopolitics and led to a major shift in EU energy policy. The necessary speed of the combined diversification away from the Russian energy sources, fossil fuel phase-out and mass scale-up of low-carbon energy and technologies are...