The newly launched Continental Circular Economy Action Plan for Africa marks a major milestone in building a shared framework that enables investment, policy alignment, and innovation across the continent. The African Union (AU) and the European Union (EU) announced the launch of the Continental Circular Economy Action Plan (CEAP) for Africa (2024–2034) on 17 July in Nairobi, in the context of the 2025 African Ministerial Conference on the Environment.
The UN Environment Programme estimates that by that point urban Africa will be the second largest global consumer of materials, at 18 billion tonnes annually.
And the African Development Bank estimates that only half of the physical infrastructure needed across the continent by 2050 has been built. In this version of the future African economies will only survive and thrive if they are reimagined along circular lines.
Source: Sitra
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