Africa needs more funding for adaptation

By Protus Mabusi

PARIS, France (PAMACC News) – More finance, capacity building for communities and institutions and use of technology are vital to making Africa adapt to climate change.

Speakers during a side event on "Climate Change Adaptation funding in Africa: Experience from the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) and Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF) and African Development Bank (AfDB)" have expressed the need for more money for adaptation and resilience building since Africa bears the brunt of climate change.

EU and partners push for Post COP21 climate finance to developing countries

By Elias NtungweNgalame

 

PARIS, France (PAMACC News) - Blending projects with climate change finances is helping to bring many climate change related projects to life in many regions of the globe thanks to a dedicated commitment and engagement by the European Union.

At a European Union side-event dubbed ‘EU and International Climate Finance; delivering and leading ahead’, at COP21 Paris on December 4, 2015, the officials expressed the need to mobilize finances to support climate related projects on mitigation and adaptation especially in developing countries.

World Bank announces $600M support for Hydrometeorology in Africa

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By Friday Phiri 

PARIS, France (PAMACC News) - The World Bank in partnership with the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the World Meteorological Organisation has announced a six hundred million programme to improve hydrometeorological services in 15 West African countries.

The Programme dubbed, Strengthening Climate Change and Disaster Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa, aims at improving meteorological services in Africa where most countries have poor infrastructure and lack modern technology for reliable and timely capture and transmission of meteorological information to the public.

INDCs: Absence of data, means of implementation may affect Africa

By Sellina Nkowani

Although the objective of the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) is definitive, most of them lack both practical and technical methods of implementation.

The INDCs combine the top-down system of a United Nations climate agreement with bottom-up system in elements through which countries put forward their agreements in the context of their own national circumstances, capabilities and priorities, within the ambition to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions enough to keep global temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius.

Financing water is key to Africa's transformation - Experts

 By Atayi Babs

 PARIS, France (PAMACC News) - Experts at the ongoing Paris climate conference have underlined the need to prioritise climate finance for water and climate change adaptation in Africa.

At the high-level event with the theme "Seizing Opportunity for Africa: Prioritising Water in the new Climate Financing Mechanism," hosted by the African Development Bank (AfDB), Han Seung-soo, Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction and Water, called for more balanced thinking with a view to changing the current trend in climate change negotiations where mitigation always receives more attention than adaptation. 

Afrique et des inquiètudes à Paris

Par Diane NININAHAZWE 

Les membres éminents du Groupe  des Négociateurs Africains (AGN)  et des dirigeants de la société civile se disent inquiète quant  à l’avancement des négociations en cours sur le climat qui se tiennent à Paris.

Lors d'une réunion en marge de la Conférence des Parties de la CCNUCC tenu ce jeudi soir, sous le thème "Paris Résultat et adaptation aux besoins de l'Afrique," Le Proffesseur  Seth Osafo, négociateur du  Groupe africain (AGN) a liée les obstacles actuels aux efforts visant à obtenir de lapart des pays qui n’ont pas ractifié le Protocole de Kyoto un nouvel accord.

Climate Science Plans for Africa

By Aaron Kaah Yancho

Africa has lost close to 9billion US dollars to climate related challenges since 1980. Yet more near future climate change related challenges are expected to retard the development of the continent.

Rain fed Agriculture is dwindling and more people are likely to die from starvation and malnutrition. Floods and droughts are bound to multiply.