This paper examines the impact of trade and political institutions on environmental sustainability in Africa and explores whether political institutions matter to the trade-environment relationship. We use data from a large group of African countries, covering the period 1990-2008 and two...

The project’s sector goal is to contribute to poverty reduction and environmental protection. Specifically, it aims to improve the sustainable management of forest resources and increase the population’s incomes.

Representatives from the Industries and Services division of AfDB’s Private Sector Operations Department (OPSM.2) participated in the Rubber Plant & Palm Oil Africa conference from September 4-7 in Accra, Ghana. The OPSM.2 team contributed to the roundtable discussion on “Agriculture...

The African Development Bank (AfDB) embarked on a consultation exercise across Africa on its proposed Integrated Safeguards System (ISS). The Bank consulted governments, representatives of civil society, the private sector and academic/research institutions. Five regional consultation...

The menace of aquatic weeds (Water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) and Water fern (Salvinia molesta), and Water lettuce (Pistia stratiotes)) has been a major source of concern in the management of major multinational water bodies in Nigeria. Most riparian communities along these water bodies are...

The African Development Bank approved on August 29, an African Water Facility (AWF) grant of €950,000 to support a project to help the Government of Zambia develop, test and adopt updated guidelines, which will be used as framework for programming as well as designing the financing,...

African Development Bank (AfDB) staff from the Energy, Environment and Climate Change Department (ONEC3) and the Sierra Leone Field Office (SLFO) undertook a mission from September 3-7 in Sierra Leone to support the Government in its efforts to mainstream green growth into its Agenda for Prosperity...

In its 69th meeting held in Bangkok, September 9-13, the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Executive Board of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) approved a new methodology – the AM0108 “Interconnection between electricity systems for energy exchange.” The methodology...