What: COP27 Leaders’ Event: Accelerating Adaptation in Africa
Who: African Development Bank, the African Union, and Global Center on Adaptation
When: 8 November 2022, 11:00 EGY (GMT+2)
Where: Meeting Room MR20, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt
Event description:
The African Union (AU) welcomed the Netherlands’ contribution of EUR 110 million in support of the Africa Adaptation Acceleration Program (AAAP) ahead of the COP27 Leaders’ Event on Accelerating Adaptation in Africa.
What: 2022 Youth Adaptation Solutions (YouthADAPT) Challenge Awards Ceremony
Who: African Development Bank and the Global Center on Adaptation
When: 10 November 2022, 10:30-12:30 GMT+2
The United Kingdom has announced a significant increase in its financial support to the poorest African countries that bear the brunt of climate change.
Your Excellencies, ladies, and gentlemen.
I am delighted to welcome you to this special session on the launch of the Alliance for Green Infrastructure in Africa (AGIA). AGIA is a platform that has just been created to speed up the development of green infrastructure in Africa in our collective drive towards net zero emissions.
Ms. Sanda Ojiambo, CEO and Executive Director, UN Global Compact
Business leaders, ladies, and gentlemen.
I like businesspeople. They make decisions fast when the opportunities are clear.
In the pilot agropole of Kara, located some 423 kilometres north of Lomé, the capital city of Togo, there is a constant hum of bulldozers and harrowers. A few metres away from the deafening noise, engineers and agricultural technicians are supervising the work and talking to community representatives.
Your Excellencies,
We are delighted that you can join us for this special high-level event on Africa Adaptation Acceleration Program. Thank you, President Macky Sall, for your support for our collective efforts on climate change challenges facing Africa.
Thank you Secretary General Guterres and world leaders for being here.
Africa can no longer keep quiet.
La Banque africaine de développement va financer la construction du corridor routier Bissau-Dakar. Son Conseil d’administration en a donné le feu vert, mercredi 9 novembre 2022, à Abidjan, pour un financement de 100,73 millions de dollars américains, destinés à la réalisation de la première phase du projet Farim-Tanaff...
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Fund for International Development and the African Development Bank Group have signed a memorandum of understanding to expand their partnership to support sustainable economic and social development in Africa.
