Climate Change
“Climate change is central to the core business of the African Development Bank and requires urgent action.” AfDB President
Climate change seriously threatens sustainable development, poverty reduction and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), particularly in Africa. It is taking a heavy toll on Africa’s agricultural productivity, food and water security, disease control, biodiversity and land degradation.
Tackling climate change issues in Africa is critical to achieving the African Development Bank’s mandate. To this end, the Bank addresses climate change as a crosscutting corporate issue and has adopted an integrated results oriented Climate Change Action Plan that permeates all Bank operations to address mitigation, adaptation and financing.
Highlights
| The AfDB Addressing climate change |
Climate change is a contributing factor in the current humanitarian situation in the east and the horn of Africa. Careful monitoring and creating programs on cimate change is a step towards mitigating the so called 'slow moving emergencies'. Wonderful AfDB.
Your contribution to CCA is of good use especially to the indigenoues groups in Africa. I wish you would extend and support it especially to the grassroot communities majority of who are the primary beneficiaries
It is quite a welcome development from Afdb to address the issue of climate change in Africa. This effort should be sustained coupled with pragmatic measures.
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08/02/2012 - Bringing information on climate change to farmers for effectiveness of our actions – Nogoye Thiam, Climate change expert
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08/02/2012 - AfDB’s senior managers receive training on climate change, agriculture and natural resources
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15/12/2011 - AfDB to explore new climate financing from Nordic countries and Korea in 2012
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15/12/2011 - African Carbon Support Program looks back at COP17 and ahead to 2012
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15/12/2011 - African Water Facility to commit approximately €25 million in 2012
