40:40 Vision – Dr. Hubert Danso

40:40 Vision

Providing you with insightful quotes and sayings from Dr. Hubert Danso

A stable legal and regulatory framework

Asking MDB's to disclose GEMs data

We have an MDB Market Failure

Institutional Investors commanding over $300 trillion globally

Its about Culture

A stable legal and regulatory framework

Asking MDBs to disclose the GEMs data is “like asking a turkey to vote for Christmas"

Curate out ‘odious proposals’ so they are palatable

Publish things worth viewing or do things worth publishing!

A philosophical struggle

Make Development Investable not Investment Developmental

The Nairobi Declaration is Africa’s Green Investment Deal market signal

We’re allowing ourselves to be perceived as a development project

Inspiring possibilities

Innovate, don't critique

Don’t let subsistence development finance distract you from fighting poverty

It's not about institutional investment, its about Institutionalizing investment

Forget theory of change, ⁠change the theory

It's not about the Global North or the Global South, it’s about the $10trn per annum Global Green industrial Economy

We need to move from GEMs2.0 mere disclosure, to GEMs3.0: an at-scale asset allocation platform

Institutional Investor Public Partnerships (IIPPs) are innovative infrastructure investment partnerships

Governments spend 90% of their time with MDBs who can only solve 10% of the private capital mobilisation gap

We need Climate Investment Statesmanship to deliver the trillions

To mobilize the trillions we need to establish African Green Industrial Infrastructure as a Globally competitive investable asset class

African Green Industrial Cities are the cornerstone to decarbonizing the globe at industrial scale

‘⁠MultiPolarism’ Where continental alliances and sovereign economic interests collaborate to meet each other’s development and finance needs

Trillions-to-Quintillions, time to move on from Billions to Trillions

⁠Scale means less Coordination, more Correlation

⁠Africa’s opportunity is to underpin the $10trn per annum and growing global green industrial economy

The Just Transition Investors Alliance (JTIA)

⁠MDBs only address 10% of Emerging Markets Private Capital Mobilization needs

MDBs not democratizing investor access to the ⁠GEMs Risk database

Governments - Don’t overestimate the availability of concessional climate finance

Africa cannot finance its transition on an MDB Concessional Climate Finance Credit Card

The G20 mandates that for every $1 of MDB finance provided

We need to mobilize private capital at scale

We’ve moved from Polluter Avoids to ⁠Polluter Profits

Transformation

Private Capital is now 500 times larger than MDB finance

The ⁠MDB’s Global collective balance sheet

On Cost of Capital

Seek Ye First

Africa needs to mobilize more investment in 6yrs for its NDCs ($3trn)

Africa owns 60% of worlds arable land

Let's Be The Market

Full Scale Ahead

The Inflation Reduction Act

We should price actual not perceived risk

More shares are traded on the NYSE in half a day

In Africa we consume what we don’t produce

We must invest in ourselves

African SME’s need RaaS (Regulations-as-a-Stimulus)

Africa’s climate finance gap

The Global Financial Architecture Reform Agenda

There will be no Just Energy Transition without Global Offtakes

Africa spends more on Import Substitution

The Africa investment Earthshot

There will be no Net Zero without an exponential increase of global institutional capital allocations

The African Unions 5% Institutional Investment Agenda

The African Green Infrastructure Investment Bank (AfGIIB)

Africa is the World’s largest Donor through its raw material exports

Mainstreaming ‘Institutional Investor-Public Partnerships

Blended Investment not Blended Finance

The African Green Infrastructure Investment Bank's (AFGIIB) Commitment

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