2022 Annual Meetings: Africa needs to turn climate change challenges into green job opportunities for youth and women

Africa — the main victim of climate change, despite emitting only 3% of greenhouse gases — should turn its climate challenges into opportunities to create green jobs for youth and women. This was the message that emerged at a knowledge event held on the sidelines of the African Development Bank Group’s Annual Meetings in Accra.,

Winners of the 2021 YouthADAPT Challenge acquire skills to accelerate climate adaptation innovation and create green jobs

Winners of the Africa Adaptation Acceleration Program’s 2021 YouthADAPT Challenge have received training to equip them to produce and scale climate-related innovation and create green jobs.
The challenge competition awards business grants of up to $100,000 to young entrepreneurs and micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises in Africa to develop innovative solutions on climate adaptation and resilience.

Key lessons in mainstreaming green growth and climate change in the African Development Bank’s interventions

The African Development Bank has won praise, in particular from UN Secretary-General António Guterres, for setting the bar in 2019 by allocating half of its climate finance to adaptation.
To find out how the Bank has fared in mainstreaming green growth and climate change into its policies, strategies, and operations, the Independent Development Evaluation (IDEV) unit conducted an assessment covering the period between 2008 and 2018.

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