Solomon Islands Tribes Sell Carbon Credits, Not Their Trees
Via Yale e360, an article on the Solomon Islands where – in a South Pacific nation ravaged by logging – several tribes joined together to sell “high integrity” carbon credits on [...]
Chinese Exodus Leaves Cambodia Boomtown with 500 ‘Ghost Buildings’
Via Nikkei Asia, a look at how Sihanoukville has been saddled with unfinished projects due to casino clampdown and COVID: An exodus of Chinese real estate companies has left this Cambodian seaside [...]
African Coastal Nations See Opportunities While Landlocked Pay The Price
Via The East African, an article on the opportunities seen by African coastal nations: Summary UNCTAD says long distances to the sea, poor road or railway have left these countries “with far higher [...]
US Senate Introduces 16-year AGOA Renewal
Courtesy of The Africa Report, an article on the US Senate’s introduction of a 16-year AGOA renewal: The proposed bill would make several adjustments to the trade agreement to improve investor [...]
The African Legion: Russia’s Newest Tool To Advance Its African Agenda
Via Diplomatic Courier, a report on Russia’s plan to replace the Wagner Group in Africa with a new, less independent paramilitary group called the African Legion. The goal is to better place [...]
The New Corridor Competition Between Washington and Beijing
Via Carnegie Endowment, a look at the new corridor competition between Washington and Beijing, and how these groundbreaking infrastructure projects will shape cities and geopolitics: These corridors [...]

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Wildcats & Black Sheep is a personal interest blog dedicated to the identification and evaluation of maverick investment opportunities arising in frontier - and, what some may consider to be, “rogue” or “black sheep” - markets around the world.

Focusing primarily on The New Seven Sisters - the largely state owned petroleum companies from the emerging world that have become key players in the oil & gas industry as identified by Carola Hoyos, Chief Energy Correspondent for The Financial Times - but spanning other nascent opportunities around the globe that may hold potential in the years ahead, Wildcats & Black Sheep is a place for the adventurous to contemplate & evaluate the emerging markets of tomorrow.