Land ecosystems are becoming less efficient at absorbing CO2

Land ecosystems are becoming less efficient at absorbing CO2

Land ecosystems currently play a key role in mitigating climate change. The more carbon dioxide (CO2) plants and trees absorb during photosynthesis, the process they use to make food, the less CO2 remains trapped in the atmosphere where it can cause temperatures to...
Renewables investments set to bounce back to pre-Covid levels

Renewables investments set to bounce back to pre-Covid levels

Global capex spending on renewables is poised to bounce back in 2021, rising 8,5% to $255-billion – in line with 2019 levels. According to Roger Diwan, vice president: financial services and the IHS Markit Energy Advisory Service, annual spending is expected to...
Disappointing sales growth for technical goods

Disappointing sales growth for technical goods

South African consumers focused their spending on buys for the home such as refrigerators over the Black Friday promotional period this year and conducted careful online research before making their purchases. That’s according to consumer research and point of sale...
Santa Tracker ready to go live on Christmas Eve

Santa Tracker ready to go live on Christmas Eve

Like almost every other 2020 holiday, Christmas won’t be quite the same. But there’s one custom we can still count on: Santa and his sleigh will navigate from the North Pole to your rooftop to drop off your gifts (while he wears a face mask). We know this thanks to...
Covid drives healthy growth for global PC market

Covid drives healthy growth for global PC market

The Global PC market is expected to grow 35% in the fourth quarter of 2020, then levelling out over 2021 at 1,4% for the year. Analysis from Canalys’ recently published PC market outlook report details key growth trends for the sector in 2021 and beyond. PC shipments...

Covid drives contraction for African trade figures

The last two years haven’t told a good story for African trade, according to Afreximbank’s annual African Trade Report (ATR). This year’s report examined trade and economic developments in Africa in 2019, a year dominated by trade wars and escalating...