Africa Is Ready for Green Climate Fund

9 October 2014
press release

Marrakech — Africa is fully prepared to receive funds to finance projects aimed at increasing climate resilience capacity on the conti-nent, an official from the Economic Commis-sion for Africa (ECA) has said.

Addressing journalists on Day One of CCDA-IV in Marrakech, Morocco, Dr. Abdalla Hamdok, the Deputy Executive Secretary of ECA, declared that Africa is indeed ready for the Green Climate Fund (GCF).

This is coming on the heels of the views held in some quarters that Africa is yet to build the requisite capacity to attract funds from the GCF.

"In view of the fact that Africa is at the re-ceiving end of problems of flood and drought, Africa is quite ready to benefit a lot from alter-native development as well as chart the path that embraces green technology" declared Dr. Ham-dok.

Reinforcing Africa's capacity to equitably manage the GCF funds through institutional frameworks such as ClimDev-Africa at the Af-rican Development Bank, the ECA Deputy Ex-ecutive Secretary believes that with Africa's 55 countries, the $100 billion pledge should be con-sidered as the minimum.

The GCF represents a potential watershed moment for climate finance in Africa. To date, the flows of climate finance of the continent have been inadequate in comparison to the con-tinent's needs.

Africa is widely acknowledged as the region in the world most vulnerable to climate change, while its recent impressive economic growth has placed an increased focus on the resources required to ensure that emissions do not grow correspondingly.

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