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STONECOMMS
RESEARCH AND INTELLIGENCE
Independent research for Africa’s climate economy
Evidence for
Africa’s transition
And the people
living it.
StoneComms is an independent research and intelligence firm examining the systems shaping Africa’s climate economy. We investigate the questions behind investment, policy and commercial decisions, combining public evidence, original enquiry and lived experience to produce clear, decision-useful intelligence.
Our field of view
Africa
Energy
Industry
Voice
Capital · infrastructure · adoption · voice
Our research services
Independent research. Commissioned intelligence.
StoneComms publishes freely accessible research into the markets, infrastructure and investment shaping Africa’s climate economy. We also undertake bespoke commercial research for investors, businesses and institutions exploring opportunities across African markets, with particular interest in growth that contributes to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
01 / Public research
Research for everyone.
Independent, evidence-led research published freely on our website to inform debate, improve understanding and make the evidence accessible.
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Research for your decision.
Bespoke, commercially focused African market research and intelligence addressing a question that matters to your organisation. You bring the question. We investigate it.
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Latest research
Sovereign Climate Finance in Africa: Converting National Plans into Investable, Accountable Infrastructure Pipelines
The Africa Sovereign Climate Facility creates a new route from national climate plans to sovereign infrastructure finance. Its value will be determined less by the amount announced than by whether four governments can select projects with material climate value, prepare them to investment standard, carry the resulting obligations transparently and measure services that communities and businesses actually receive.
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View all researchThe enquiry
“What does the evidence change about the decision?”
Our research starts with a question worth answering — and ends with evidence that helps someone decide what to do next. Each flagship paper separates evidence from assertion and keeps limitations visible.
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Where commercial opportunity meets sustainable development.
StoneComms brings together journalistic judgement, public evidence, original enquiry and commercial understanding to investigate the questions shaping Africa’s climate economy.
Guided by the UN Sustainable Development Goals, StoneComms provides independent research and market intelligence to help investors, institutions and businesses identify opportunities, assess risks and answer the questions that matter to their decisions.
THE INFORMATION GAP
What do you need to know?
Information about African markets is abundant, but often fragmented across datasets, policy documents, company disclosures, research, local sources and institutional records. StoneComms brings that evidence together, tests what it tells us and investigates what is still unclear. You bring the question. We investigate it.
The StoneComms evidence standard
Useful intelligence should show its workings.
Limits visible
Uncertainty, incomplete data and competing interpretations remain part of the published record.
People count
Investment and policy are tested against the experience of those expected to live with them.
Human accountable
AI supports discovery and analysis. Lee Breheny remains editor and accountable author.
Commission StoneComms
Sometimes the information gap is too important to leave unresolved.
StoneComms undertakes commissioned research for organisations financing, building and governing Africa’s climate economy — investigating specific market, policy, investment and commercial questions where evidence needs to be brought together, tested or interpreted.
Market opportunity and entry · Investment risks and conditions · Policy and regulation · Market demand and adoption
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Editor and Research Director
Lee Breheny
From newsroom to boardroom, with the evidence kept in view.
Lee is a former BBC editorial leader and communications executive. He helped build the public narrative of African electric-mobility company Spiro and later served as Chief Communications Officer for multi-billion-dollar African industrialisation and investment platform Equitane. His research at Oxford Brookes examines voice, marginalisation and editorial inclusion in UK journalism.
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