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US investors with more than $1 trillion (nearly R17 trillion) of assets under management are in South Africa to look for investment opportunities.
The visit being facilitated by USAID and Prosper Africa, the US government’s initiative to increase trade and investment between African nations and America, started on Tuesday and will coincide with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s trip. Blinken arrives in the country on Sunday — his second official trip to Africa. He will also visit the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda.
South Africa, the world’s 13th-biggest source of greenhouse gases, will need to spend $250 billion over the next three decades to fund the closing down of coal-fired plants and development of replacement green energy such as wind and solar, according to a report released in May. The world’s richest nations at COP26 in Glasgow in November pledged just $8.5 billion in climate grants and concession
US investors head to SA to talk renewables | Business
US investors with more than $1 trillion of assets under management are in South Africa to look for investment opportunities.