I have in the past few months, both in speaking and even writing about this and related issues, approached the subject from the point of view of a just transition. That is, the broad notion that the burdens of climate change and its mitigation must be fairly and equitably shared between African countries – who…
Africa, the continent that pollutes the planet the least, is today one of the world’s most vulnerable to climate risks. While nations across the continent grapple with financing constraints, resources from the international private sector, including multilateral development financiers such as the African Development Bank are helping to catalyze climate action and green growth. For…
Following the expiry of its Second Climate Change Action Plan after COP21, the AfDB has launched a more comprehensive and ambitious strategic framework on climate change and green growth. This includes a climate policy and long-term strategy covering 2021 to 2030, together with a Third Action Plan for 2021-2025. The AfDB committed 9% of its…
In the last few years, the world has begun a more definitive transition from the place of cynicism and misunderstanding about the issue of Climate Change to that of warmer realisation, if not wholesome acceptance, of the reality of the phenomenon as a significant threat. But then, even in the face of a whittling down…
Yesterday, I came across the article by Retson A Tedheke . As usual, he writes from a deep place of undiluted patriotism and knowledge that can only come from hands-on experience, battling with real-life challenges confronting us as a nation. On the Kaduna-Abuja corridor, he submits that “what is happening there is more economic and…
