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Africa Climate Fund Receives $3 Million Boost

21Feb

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Africa Climate Fund Receives $3 Million Boost

Coastal City Adaptation Project, in Quelimane city, Mozambique to improve preparation for floods, erosion, sea level rise and other weather and climate-related events. ©PDUSGov/ Wikimedia Commons The Africa Climate Change Fund (ACCF) has grown to $28.8 million following a $3 million (€3 million) contribution by Ireland ($2 million) and Austria ($1 million). Established in 2014 by the African Development Bank (AfDB), the trust fund supports African countries to build resilience to the worsening impacts of climate change and to transition to sustainable low-carbon growth. With the latest cash injection, Ireland and Austria join Germany, Italy, Flanders, Quebec, Canada and Global Center on Adaptation as ACCF donors. “Austria contributed to the ACCF to support t...

Report: How Africa Can Beat Plastic Pollution

Photo © Calvin Sihongo/Unsplash A new report has called on African countries to develop dedicated policies for plastic waste management to effectively combat plastic pollution. The report, titled Plastic Waste Management in Africa and issued by the India-based Centre of Science and Environment, notes that in most African nations, plastic is only a small subset of waste management legislation or regulations, thus impeding action. Of the 15 African countries the report studied, only Nigeria has a dedicated policy for plastic waste. “A dedicated policy on plastic waste goes a long way in addressing issues such as defining key terminologies to avoid ambiguity; identifying stakeholders and assigning specific responsibilities to them; setting a timeline to achieve a ta...

How Kenya Can Effectively Grow 15 billion Trees

Photo © Arnaud Mesureur/ Unsplash The government and partners recently launched an ambitious campaign to plant and grow 15 billion trees to triple Kenya’s tree cover from 12% to 30% by 2032. The initiative aims to combat climate change and support socio-economic development. To ensure success, the campaign should incorporate low-cost and efficient tree-growing methods like natural regeneration. Based on the principle that nature recovers by itself given the chance, the natural regeneration approach does not plant trees, but it provides enabling conditions for them to grow from seeds dispersed on the ground by wind, animals, and other natural agents. It also manages tree stumps and saplings to speed up their growth or regrowth. This method is not new but man...