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Lighting up Africa requires coordination in energy initiatives
10-Dec-2015 - The mushrooming of energy initiatives in Africa is a welcome development, but there is need for coordination of these initiatives to ensure their success, African Development Bank’s (AfDB) Kurt Lonsway has said. Lonsway, Manager of the Environment and Climate Change Division at the AfDB, which hosts the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) Africa Hub, added that coordination is crucial in these energy initiatives in order to avoid duplication.African Environment Ministers reiterate call for binding agreement or nothing at all at Paris climate talks
10-Dec-2015 - African Environment Ministers, under the auspices of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN), have restated their resolve to collectively demand for a binding legal agreement from the ongoing UN climate conference in Paris (COP21). The Ministers met on Sunday, December 6, after a brief meeting with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. The meeting, which was also a platform for Ministers to get updates from the African Group of Negotiators (AGN) on the ongoing negotiations, was attended by over 50 Environment Ministers from...COP21: Africa requires curricula review, green economy to tackle unemployment
10-Dec-2015 - African governments have been urged to review their education curricula to have relevant skills and human capital development for green growth and climate adaptation and green jobs on the continent. Speakers during a discussion on the 10th day of the UN climate change conference (COP21) in Paris, France, observed that most education systems in Africa are rigid and must be reviewed for the continent to move towards a low carbon development and create vibrant green economies.
Lancement du Projet Dorsale à fibre optique d’Afrique centrale
10-Dec-2015 - La Banque africaine de développement et le Cameroun ont procédé le lundi 30 novembre, à Yaoundé, au lancement officiel de la composante du Cameroun du Projet Dorsale à fibre optique d’Afrique centrale communément appelé en anglais Central Africa Backbone (CAB), projet prioritaire dans le cadre du Programme de développement des infrastructures en Afrique (PIDA). La mission de lancement s’est achevée le 2 décembre 2015.Entrepreneurs showcase climate-smart technologies that have changed lives in rural Africa
09-Dec-2015 - Small innovation projects by Africans in Africa are already changing the lives of poor people on the ground. This is an indication that the continent is moving forward, offering solutions to climate-related challenges. In an event at the Africa Pavilion during the second week of the UN climate negotiations in Paris (COP21), entrepreneurs demonstrated that it was possible and affordable to introduce people in remote rural areas to climate-friendly sources of energy.COP21: AfDB President meets with African Parliamentarians and civil society
09-Dec-2015 - Akinwumi Adesina, President of the African Development Bank Group, held a meeting with African Parliamentarians and representatives of African civil society, on the sidelines of the COP21 climate conference in Paris.
Experts cite urgent need to expand and improve Africa’s ports to meet rising demand
09-Dec-2015 - The competitiveness of Africa’s economies will depend on the efficiency of African ports, according to the African Development Bank’s first Transport Forum held at its headquarters in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire in November 26-27, 2015.Green growth can turn Africa’s problems into opportunities, experts say
09-Dec-2015 - Africa has been facing a number of challenges such as high inequalities, underdevelopment and lack of power, but these and many others can be turned into opportunities if the continent takes the path of green growth, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said. The Commissioner with the New Climate Economy and former Nigerian Finance Minister made these comments during a panel discussion on Financing Sustainable Pathways for Development, on Tuesday, December 8 at COP21 in Paris.Eco-innovation is critical to solving Africa’s climate challenges
09-Dec-2015 - Researchers and academics from institutions of higher learning in Africa have been challenged to step out of their comfort zones and provide practical solutions to climate change. Speakers at the Eco-Innovation Strategies for Tackling Climate Change in Africa meeting on Monday, December 9 at the ongoing Paris climate conference (COP21) noted that for Africa to tackle climate change challenges, collaborative efforts among universities, the community and business owners is crucial.African Ministers insist on a legally binding agreement in Paris
08-Dec-2015 - African Ministers for the Environment held a high-level meeting at the Africa Pavilion at the ongoing United Nations climate change conference in Paris, France. The Ministers from Africa’s 54 nations were briefed on the status of the Conference of Parties (COP21) and key points which they should focus on in the penultimate session of the discussions.
6th China-Africa Cooperation Forum highlights unique partnership and the role of the AfDB
08-Dec-2015 - China is Africa’s largest trading partner for the sixth year running, according to Charles Boamah, African Development Bank’s Vice-President of Finance. The trade volume between the two amounted to US $220 billion in 2014. This is reportedly more than double the trade level between the United States and the African continent. The same is true for investments. Boamah made the remarks during an interview on China Central Television (CCTV) at the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), which took place on December 4 and 5, 2015 in Johannesburg...Can Africa’s regional flagship programmes change the continent’s development narrative?
08-Dec-2015 - “If we want Africa to achieve land degradation neutrality by 2030, if Africa must transform its agriculture and drive its development priorities to acceptable levels, then we have to take the regional flagship programmes outlined by New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) and partners very seriously,” cautioned Estherine Fotabong, Director of Programmes for the NEPAD Agency, as she opened a panel discussion on Africa’s Green Growth Strategies at a COP21 side event on Saturday, December 5 in Paris.
Gabonese Prime Minister opens 11th Annual African Symposium for Statistical Development in Libreville
08-Dec-2015 - The Prime Minister of the Republic of Gabon, Daniel Ona Ondo officially opened the 11th African Symposium on Statistical Development (ASSD) organized by the African Development Bank (AfDB) in collaboration with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the African Union Commission (AUC), Statistics South Africa and the Gabon Bureau of Statistics.Africa needs more funding for adaptation
07-Dec-2015 - More finance, capacity building for communities and institutions and use of technology are vital to making Africa adapt to climate change. Speakers during a side event entitled “Climate Change Adaptation Funding in Africa: Experience from the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) and Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF) and African Development Bank (AfDB)” expressed the need for more money for adaptation and resilience-building since Africa bears the brunt of climate change.EU set to boost post-COP21 climate financing to developing countries
07-Dec-2015 - Blending projects with climate finance is helping to bring many climate change related projects to life in several regions around the globe, thanks to the dedicated commitment and engagement of the European Union. At the European Union side event “EU and International Climate Finance: delivering and leading ahead”, at COP21 in Paris on Friday, December 4, experts expressed the need to mobilize finances to support climate-related projects on mitigation and adaptation especially in developing countries.Remarks by Kevin Chika Urama, on behalf of President Akinwumi A. Adesina of the African Development Bank at the LPAA Focus on Energy, December 7, 2015, COP21, Paris.
07-Dec-2015 - Your Excellencies, I bring you greetings from Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, President of the African Development Bank. He is not able to join us today due to other appointments in Abidjan. As he has underscored in his speeches at COP21, “Climate change has no borders. Africa, the least emitter of greenhouse gases in the world, now suffers the most from climate change. Multiple effects of climate change are destroying livelihoods, displacing populations, triggering rising waves of fragility, migration and conflicts. This is neither sustainable nor...Africa ties its agricultural transformation agenda to COP21 climate outcome
07-Dec-2015 - A high level panel of African agricultural experts has said that the continent’s agricultural transformation depends on the successful outcome of the climate negotiation process. Speaking during a panel discussion organised by the African Development Bank at the ongoing UN climate change conference (COP21) in Paris, France, Akinwumi Adesina, President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), said the future of Africa depends on agriculture.INDCs: Absence of data, means of implementation may affect Africa
07-Dec-2015 - Although the objective of the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) is definitive, most of them lack both practical and technical methods of implementation. The INDCs combine the top-down system of a United Nations climate agreement with a bottom-up system through which countries put forward their agreements in the context of their own national circumstances, capabilities and priorities, within the ambition to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions enough to keep global temperatures from rising beyond 2 degrees Celsius.Financing water is key to Africa’s transformation, experts say
07-Dec-2015 - Experts at the ongoing Paris climate conference have underlined the need to prioritise climate finance for water and climate change adaptation in Africa.