March 23, 2020
Africa: Coronavirus and Climate Change - Observing World Water Day
A message from Dr. Jennifer Blanke Vice-President, Agriculture, Human and Social Development African Development Bank Read more »
March 03, 2020
Africa: The African Development Bank Group Appoints Dr. Kevin Kanina Kariuki As Vice-President, Power, Energy, Climate and Green Growth
The African Development Bank Group is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Kevin Kanina Kariuki as the Vice President for Power, Energy, Climate & Green Growth, effective… Read more »
January 21, 2020
Africa: ACCF Grants U.S$4.7 Million to Support Projects in African Countries
The Africa Climate Change Fund (ACCF) recently approved seven new project proposals amounting to around $4.7 million. Read more »
December 23, 2019
Africa: Funding Options for African Countries Hit By Climate Change - Africa Climate Change Fund Shows Results
The debate around climate change often focuses on the targets that need to be achieved. Read more »
Africa: Global Gender Summit 2019 - Climate Investment Funds Can Cushion Women From Adverse Effects of Climate Change
Gender-sensitive climate action can help reduce women's vulnerability to climate change, according to experts. Read more »
December 16, 2019
Africa: Cop 25 - African Development Bank Urges African Nations to Persist With Climate Change Ambitions As Marathon Talks End in Madrid
The African Development Bank has urged the continent's nations to stay the course on climate action, after a marathon session of talks at the twenty-fifth Conference of Parties to… Read more »
December 13, 2019
Africa: African Development Bank Joins Forces With International Organisations to Help Developing Countries Build Resilience to Extreme Weather
The African Development Bank has joined forces with 11 other international organizations to assist developing countries to build resilience against the impact of natural disasters… Read more »
Africa: Cop 25 - African Islands Want Their Place in the Sun As They Grapple With Climate Change
Africa's small island states are bearing the brunt of climate change, even though technology exists to prevent the worst impacts of extreme weather. Read more »
December 16, 2019
Africa: Cop 25 - Africa Pushes for Special Consideration in Madrid Climate Talks
As terrible floods inundate their country, close to 100 Kenyan delegates have convened in Madrid, Spain, along with thousands of global leaders, for the COP 25 climate conference. Read more »
December 12, 2019
Africa: Cop 25 - Kenya Experience Suggests Gender Equality Is Best Path to Achieve SDGs
Stakeholders at COP25 climate talks, citing Kenya's example, called on developing countries to boost women's involvement in the fight against climate change. Without gender… Read more »
Africa: COP 25 - African Parliamentarians Called on to Speak as One for their Voice to be Heard
African parliamentarians should speak as one to make their voice heard in climate negotiations, Arona Soumaré, the African Development Bank's principal expert in climate… Read more »
December 06, 2019
Africa: Are Nature Based Solutions the Key to Africa's Climate Response?
While the UN climate talks are celebrating their 25th year, carbon emissions around the world have continued to climb. For many, that is where natural solutions could play a key… Read more »
December 02, 2019
Africa: Government of Flanders Grants 1 Million Euros to the Africa Climate Change Fund to Support 5 Projects in Malawi, Mozambique and South Africa
The Government of Flanders this year has committed 1 million euros to the Africa Climate Change Fund (ACCF) to support five projects in three African countries - Malawi, Mozambique… Read more »
Africa: Africa Climate Change Fund Grants Nearly $1 Million to Support Access to Climate Finance in Benin and Lesotho
The Africa Climate Change Fund (ACCF) has approved a project proposal for a total of $997, 524 to support Benin and Lesotho to access international climate finance, an initiative… Read more »
November 29, 2019
Africa: Hola, Madrid! African Development Bank Takes the Continent's Climate Agenda to Cop25 in Spain
The Bank is playing a leading role in guiding progress on climate change on the continent. The Bank has doubled its total climate change commitment to $25 billion between 2020 and… Read more »
November 25, 2019
Africa: Project Successes in Morocco and Ghana Offer Lessons in Gender and Climate Change
The African Development Bank recognizes the importance of addressing gender in efforts to combat climate change and its effects in order to increase the benefits of its projects… Read more »
November 09, 2019
Africa: Why the Africa Investment Forum Matters for the Continent's Energy Transformation - - Wale Shonibare, Acting Vice-President, Power, Energy, Climate Change & Green Growth, African Development Bank
The African Development Bank's New Deal on Energy for Africa underlines the urgency to power the continent in order to end energy poverty, catalyze industrialization, and stimulate… Read more »
October 24, 2019
Africa: AfDB Climate Change Initiative - Top Experts Form the Adaptation Benefits Mechanism Board
The African Development Bank has appointed a group of renowned experts to the board of a continental initiative to mobilize financing for resilience to the negative impacts of… Read more »
October 14, 2019
Madagascar: African Development Bank Launches Africa Disaster Risk Financing Programme
The African Development Bank, in partnership with the Government of Madagascar and the African Risk Capacity (ARC), has launched the Africa Disaster Risks Financing Programme… Read more »
Africa: African Development Bank, Climate Investment Funds and the Coalition for Green Capital to Develop Green Financing Instruments for Africa
The African Development Bank, in partnership with the Climate Investment Funds (CIF), has commissioned the Coalition for Green Capital (CGC) to prepare a study on the creation of… Read more »
October 07, 2019
Africa: Climate Action Summit - Three Questions to Dr Anthony Nyong, Director Climate Change and Green Growth Department
Leaders from all over the world met in New York recently to discuss efforts to tackle climate change. Read more »
September 25, 2019
Africa: Unga 2019 - African Development Bank to Help Boost Climate Change Adaptation Funding to $12.5bn
African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina on Tuesday pledged to boost funding commitments by $12.5bn to help countries adapt to the effects of climate change between 2020… Read more »
September 23, 2019
Africa: Can Africa Afford to 'Strand' Its Fossil Fuels?
In recent years, "stranded assets" have attracted a lot of interest, as climate-driven changes to our physical environment amplify the calls for a seamless transition to low-carbon… Read more »
Africa: UN Climate Action Summit - High Level Mdb Statement
Multilateral Development Banks have been at the forefront of supporting our clients' efforts to pursue ambitious climate action for more than a decade. In light of growing climate… Read more »
September 20, 2019
Cameroon: Yaoundé Aims for Zero Floods By 2020, Thanks to Funding From the African Development Bank
The Yaoundé Sanitation Project (PADY) has reduced the number of floods in the Cameroonian capital by five times (from 15 to 3). Read more »
