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
21/05/2012 - 2012 Annual Meetings Spot 2
21/05/2012 - 2012 AfDB results
It is important for AfDB to continue emphasising on climate change issues even as it continues to contrinute towards Africa's growth path. It is important to intergrate CC issues in all development programs of African countries since CC could wipe out all development gains.
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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18/05/2012 - Green Growth: Creating an Enabling Environment
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18/05/2012 - The Road to Rio +20: Challenges and Opportunities for Africa
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10/05/2012 - Renewable Energy in Mali: Achievements, Challenges and Opportunities
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08/05/2012 - Ethiopia, Nigeria get financial boost for clean energy from the Climate Investment Funds
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04/05/2012 - Promoting Growth within Social and Planetary Boundaries - Oxfam
