News & Events
25/03/2013 - On March 13-14, 2013, a wide range of stakeholders gathered in Dar-es-Salaam for a Tanzania Government-hosted workshop to consider the country’s “Geothermal Legal and Regulatory Framework”. Participants included government officials, private developers, geothermal resource survey specialists, development partners, lawyers and civil society representatives.
Categories: Tanzania, Energy & Power, Environment, Climate Change, Climate Investment Funds (CIF)
27/02/2013 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) has laid out solutions some African countries are about to apply, with help from the AfDB and the Climate Investment Funds (CIF), to respond to complex problems that climate change is creating on their combined sectors of water, food and energy.
Categories: Climate Change, Climate Investment Funds (CIF), Energy & Power, Water Supply & Sanitation, Food Production, Agriculture & Agro-industries
25/02/2013 - Stakeholders across Mozambique gathered in a consultation on the country’s developing Green Growth Action Plan (GGAP) in December 2012. The African Development Bank (AfDB) team lead the work to support the Government. Participants in the consultations involved representatives from Government, private sector, civil society, development partners and academia in full-day presentation and discussion events in the three regions of the country: north, centre and south.
Categories: Mozambique, Climate Change, Climate Investment Funds (CIF), Green Growth Initiative
22/02/2013 - The Climate Investment Funds (CIF) has announced an agreement to provide Nigeria with US $50 million to support an African Development Bank-supported program of financial intermediation for renewable energy and energy efficiency through local banks, as part of the country’s national Investment Plan endorsed by the CIF in 2010. The money, being provided under the CIF’s Clean Technology Fund (CTF), is designated to stimulate alternative and efficient ways to generate electricity and to reduce dependence on energy sources which contribute significantly to greenhouse gas emissions.
Categories: Nigeria, Infrastructure, Energy & Power, Environment, Climate Change, Climate Investment Funds (CIF)
22/02/2013 - The Climate Investment Funds (CIF) has approved a grant of US $950,000 to help Nigeria prepare for a proposed project to revamp Abuja’s mass transit system. The request for the project preparation money was submitted to the CIF by the Government of Nigeria and the African Development Bank (AfDB). This is the first time the CIF has approved a sustainable transport project preparation grant within Africa, and marks the way forward for the transport sector as part of the AfDB and CIF work to help Africa move toward low-carbon and climate-resilient development.
Categories: Nigeria, Transport, Infrastructure, Environment, Climate Change, Climate Investment Funds (CIF)
20/02/2013 - The African Development Bank’s Financing Change: The AfDB and CIF for a Climate-Smart Africa is the Bank’s second semi-annual report on its work to implement the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) in Africa, covering July-December 2012.
Categories: Climate Change, Environment, Climate Investment Funds (CIF), Energy & Power
16/01/2013 - At a CIF Partnership Forum event hosted by the African Development Bank on November 7, 2012 in Istanbul, a panel of speakers considered key points underpinning private sector investment in CIF operations, including fiscal ones, and lessons from specific countries which have been successful at attracting private sector investment at least in some sectors.
Categories: Turkey, Climate Investment Funds (CIF), Climate Change, Environment, Private Sector Development
16/01/2013 - The African Development Bank hosted a two-day meeting of international finance institutions (IFIs) in Istanbul on November 8 and 9, 2012 to advance the analysis and information-sharing regarding the role that Climate Change Development Policy Operations (CC DPOs) can play in promoting structural changes towards climate-smart development pathways.
Categories: Turkey, Climate Investment Funds (CIF), Climate Change, Environment
16/01/2013 - During the 2012 Climate Investment Funds Partnership Forum, which took place in Istanbul, Turkey, on November 6 and 7, Mafalda Duarte, CIF Coordinator for the African Development Bank, represented the Bank and other multilateral development banks (MDBs) on a panel discussing Civil Society Participation in the Climate Investment Funds.
Categories: Turkey, Environment, Climate Investment Funds (CIF), Climate Change, Civil Society
16/01/2013 - The African Development Bank showcased its work in the domain of climate change in Africa through an array of printed and audiovisual materials at the CIF Partnership Forum on November 8-9, 2012 in Istanbul. The CIF in Action semi-annual report, published recently by the Bank’s Energy, Environment and Climate Change Department (ONEC), highlights the AfDB’s work in expanding access to international climate change financing and was prominently displayed at the entrance to the CIF Partnership Forum’s Knowledge Bazaar.
Categories: Turkey, Climate Change, Environment, Climate Investment Funds (CIF)
