News & Events

20/04/2012 - The 4th Africa Carbon Forum (ACF),opened its doors this week to more than 1,000 registered participants from across the world to foster a discussion on climate change and carbon finance in Africa. The message resonating this year from the Forum is that Africa represents a golden opportunity for a green future.

Categories: Climate Change, African Carbon Support Program

22/02/2012 - The African Carbon Support Program (ACSP) held a seminar on 12 January 2012 for staff of the African Development Bank (AfDB) on the outcomes of COP17 and how they relate to the Bank’s current and planned climate change initiatives, particularly those involving carbon finance.

Categories: Climate Investment Funds (CIF), Climate Change, African Carbon Support Program

15/12/2011 - After extended negotiations, the UN Climate Change Conference in Durban concluded with the adoption of the "Durban Platform," a set of decisions that lay the groundwork for adopting a legal agreement on climate change as soon as possible, and no later than 2015. Governments, including those from 35 industrialized countries, also agreed on a second commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol from 1 January 2013. Parties to this second period will submit their quantified emission limitation or reduction objectives for review by 1 May 2012.

Categories: Climate Investment Funds (CIF), Climate Change, African Carbon Support Program

23/11/2011 - An Ethiopia-Kenya hydropower interconnection project may be the first to benefit from work beginning conducted by the African Development Bank (AfDB), through the African Carbon Support Programme (ACSP), to develop a new Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) methodology that would make interstate electricity connection eligible for CDM revenue.

Categories: Kenya, Ethiopia, Energy & Power, Infrastructure, Climate Change, Climate Investment Funds (CIF), African Carbon Support Program

22/11/2010 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) has launched a two-year technical assistance program - the African Carbon Support Program, which is being implemented by its Energy, Environment and Climate Change Department. The program, launched on 4 November 2010, is geared toward assisting Bank clients in regional member countries to access carbon finance in order to ensure the commercial viability of their investments.

Categories: Climate Change, Enhancing Private Sector Assistance for Africa: EPSA Initiative, African Carbon Support Program