Country Report No. 2022/284

IMF Executive Board Concludes 2022 Article IV Consultation with Republic of Estonia

Country Report No. 2022/287

Departmental Paper No 2022/014

Amid a call for urgent action to safeguard the continent from climate change, Gabon’s President Ali Bongo Ondimba opened the 2022 Africa Climate Week by highlighting his country’s efforts to boost climate action and calling for continuous collective efforts.
“For more than ten years, we have intensified our efforts to protect our remarkable forestry heritage and build a low-carbon economy,” Ondimba said. “Consequently, Gabon, which has already achieved the objectives set by the Paris Agreement, is considered the most carbon-positive country in the world.”

African Development Bank Vice-President for Private Sector, Infrastructure and Industrialization, Mr. Solomon Quaynor, officially visited Mozambique last week. He met with Mozambican government representatives and members of the private sector. Discussions covered the bank’s country strategy for Mozambique, recent reforms the government has undertaken, and the country’s strategic energy and transport sectors in particular.  

What:             Africa Adaptation Summit
Who:              The Global Center on Adaptation in collaboration with the African Union, the African Development Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Africa Adaptation Initiative and the Climate Vulnerable Forum

The year is 2018. Sitting in her office in the southwest of Madagascar, Razay Zanabaindrano recounts a tragic incident that resulted from poor roads in her hometown.
Zanabaindrano is a midwife and pharmacist in Toliara — formerly Tulear — the coastal capital of southwest Madagascar and one of the most prominent trading hubs in the country. “There was once a sick man and we used a zebu cart to take him to a car…We could not even reach where the car was waiting and he died,” she explained.,

African countries must chart their unique paths toward achieving a just transition, experts during  a session said, to assess the needs, challenges, and opportunities of implementing a just energy transition in Africa at Africa Climate Week.
The event, titled The Just Transition in the African Context, was jointly organized by the African Development Bank and the African Climate Foundation. Laura Becerra of Neyen Consulting moderated.  

Date:                 6 September 2022
Time:                 20:00-21:40 (JST), 11:00-12:40 (GMT)
Co-organizers: African Development Bank and United Nations Development Programme
Venue:              Online
Languages:      English /French/ Japanese/ Arabic/ Portuguese