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Financing adaptation to climate change
Concluding the Africa Climate Week, Nigel Topping
and Egyptian Dr. Mahmoud Mohieldin in a joint
statement said, "It is unrealistic to expect climate
action without taking into account the overall context
of the sustainable development agenda, poverty,
hunger, employment and women's empowerment.
Mobilizing climate finance in Africa is key to
achieving genuine progress."
What emerges from this conclusion is that the next
conference of the parties should be the one to
implement the promised financing. The World Bank
estimates that Africa will need at least $1.6 trillion
between 2020 and 2030 to deal with the effects of
climate change. The 2015 consensus in Paris
established that the main polluting countries should
disburse the necessary funds for climate adaptation.
To date, the most polluting nations have provided
only a fraction of the promised funding. For the
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participants of the African Climate Week, the focus at
COP 27 should be on accelerating the activities of the
Green Climate Fund The ambitious goal of COP 21 is to limit global
The other strong commitment of the polluting warming to 2 degrees by the end of the century.
According to the experts of the Intergovernmental
countries at COP 21 was to limit the effect of their
economies on the climate. Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an increase of 2
degrees in the earth's average temperature by the
end of the century could have serious effects on all
lifestyles around the world. In Africa, this means
more severe flooding, longer and more frequent
droughts, and rising sea levels. This last
phenomenon threatens the existence of large African
coastal cities like Dakar or Cotonou or island
countries like Cape Verde.
To avoid this disastrous scenario, the main polluting
countries committed themselves at the COP 21 in
2015 in Paris to move towards carbon neutrality on a
voluntary basis. This concept indicates that a nation
commits to capture at least see more CO2 than it
emits in a year. It is clear that several years after this
commitment was made, efforts to achieve it are very
timid. The African Climate Week encourages African
representatives to speak with one voice to urge
polluting countries to accelerate their march towards
carbon neutrality.
Discussions at the climate forum in Gabon set
Africa's goals for COP 27. A conference that African
leaders hope will focus on concrete actions and
solutions and less on non-binding commitments.

The city of Cairo in Egypt hosts COP 27

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