Building Zimbabwe's green economy from the ground up
The Green Economy Summit 2026 at the University of Zimbabwe brings the public and private sectors into one room on 25–26 June. Here is what we intend to put on the table.
By Terra Verde
On 25–26 June 2026, Terra Verde convenes the Green Economy Summit at the University of Zimbabwe — our most ambitious public engagement to date, bringing government, industry, finance and academia into a single working conversation.
Why a summit, and why now
Zimbabwe's climate economy is being built from several directions at once: carbon project development on communal and conservancy land, industrial decarbonisation in mining and manufacturing, water and energy infrastructure, and a policy environment still taking shape.
Those threads rarely meet. Project developers do not sit with the lenders who would finance them; ministries do not hear what industry actually needs to comply; students graduate into a sector they have read about but never entered.
What the two days are for
- Practical sessions, not keynote theatre. Working sessions on project readiness, MRV capacity, Article 6 authorisation and industrial decarbonisation.
- A deal room, not a networking lounge. Structured introductions between project owners, capital providers and offtakers.
- A skills pipeline. A dedicated student track, because the sector's binding constraint in five years will be trained people, not land.
The student question
Zimbabwe's students should not be spectators to the green economy. The measurement, verification, legal and financial skills this sector needs are learnable, and the institutions to teach them already exist.
Our position is straightforward: build the curriculum with industry in the room, and give students real project data to work on before they graduate.
What we want to leave with
A short, public list of commitments — from the private sector, from public institutions and from the university — that can be checked in twelve months. A summit that produces a communiqué and nothing else has failed.
Details on registration and the programme will be published here as they are confirmed. If your organisation wants to contribute a session or a case, contact the practice.