“AfDB at Rio+20 : voicing up Africa’s agenda”, by Aly Abou-Sabaa, Chair, Climate Change Coordination Committee Rio+20 Website

Land valuation was the topic of the first event held by the African Development Bank (AfDB) at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20, in Rio de Janeiro. The AfDB held the event, entitled “Economic Valuation of Land: An Approach to Advance Sustainable Development in the...

the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20, in Rio de Janeiro. The event, entitled “Facilitating Green Growth in Africa: Perspectives from the African Development Bank”, was held on 14 June. The AfDB’s Chief Climate Change Specialist at the AfDB, Frank Sperling, explained...

The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) is at Rio+20 to voice Africa’s agenda until 22 June, with fellow African institutions such as the African Union Commission and the UN Economic Commission for Africa and many leaders from across the continent. The theme for Rio+20 is “The Future We...

To increase energy security, strengthen regional integration and promote industrial growth and diversification,  Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia have joined together to expedite the deployment of concentrated solar power (CSP) and exploit the region's vast solar energy resources...

African Development Bank (AfDB) projects to develop concentrated solar power in Morocco and geothermal power in Kenya are two of some 20 renewable energy initiatives being covered by Africa Express, a year-long study of sustainable energy in Africa, and,what organizers hope will be  the...

The African Development Bank (AfDB) hosted a Joint MDB Adaptation Finance Tracking Workshop on the sidelines of the Climate Change Conference of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC), held from 14 to 25 May in Bonn, Germany. The MDBs discussed the adaptation concept that they will...

After six months of operations, the Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA), a joint initiative of the African Development Bank and the Danish government, designed to encourage private investment in small/medium-scale renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in Africa, has built an...

The Swedish government has pledged to commit €7.5 million to a special fund of the Climate for Development in Africa Program (ClimDev-Africa) established to pool resources and finance demand-driven projects in Africa that intend to generate and disseminate climate information to all...