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Africa Adaptation Summit

Rotterdam, Netherlands

On September 5, 2022, Rotterdam hosted the Africa greenhouse gas emissions but has suffered
Adaptation Summit. A discussion on climate disproportionately from climate impacts like
adaptation techniques for Africa was the purpose of devastating floods and droughts. According to the
the summit. African leaders were present to find latest UN assessment in November 2021, Africa is the
solutions and funding for climate change adaptation. world's most vulnerable continent. Akinwumi
There were representatives from a wide range of A.Adesina, president of the African Development
governments and institutions attending the event, Bank stated that “Africa was not affected by climate
such as the World Trade Organization, the change, but distressed by it”. According to him, Africa
International Monetary Fund, Africa Development loses between $7 billion and $15 billion a year due to
Bank, and European Investment Bank. In November climate change. A lack of financial resources hinders
2021, at the last UN climate talks in Glasgow , wealthy the continent's ability to tackle climate change
nations pledged to double funding by about $25 because it will require between $1.3 trillion and $1.6
billion by 2025 in support of African climate trillion in the next decade to implement its Paris
adaptation efforts. In response to climate change's Climate Agreement commitment, which is estimated
destructive forces, the developed world's commitment at between $140 billion and $300 billion. Adesina said
to helping Africa was highly praised. Climate he is not worried about whether Africa will be able to
adaptation funds pledged were the largest ever balance its economy and its climate adaptation
globally. In a report released just weeks before the efforts. Considering the current European energy
Africa Adaptation Summit, the Organization for crisis, he believes African nations may even be able
Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to help European countries secure gas supplies in
found that rich countries did not fulfill their 2009 the future by releasing their vast gas reserves.
pledge to invest $100 billion a year by 2020 to help During the summit, European leaders were
developing nations adapt to global warming. The conspicuously absent. The African presidents who
OECD said developed countries gave $83.3 billion to attended the summit expressed disappointment at
poorer nations in 2020, the highest ever sum, but still the non-participation of European leaders. In their
short of the original amount. view, climate change is an existential threat to the
It is a fact that Africa has been severely affected by climate change is an existential threat to the African
the climate crisis. Africa generates less than 3% of all

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