In the last two and a half years, we have patiently waited for international climate change agreements and pledges to get realised while the weather has battered our continent in unprecedented ways.
we were heading into the peak of the pandemic, and our continent was dealing with the public health and economic fallout caused by the virus.
A New Deal for a green economy in Africa should open the way for others into the economic space. African governments can’t be the leading players and referees regarding climate change and the future economy. In South Africa, extreme flooding and landslides in Kwazulu-Natal in April 2022 caused the death of 448 people, displacing over 40,000 others, destroying more than 12,000 houses and severely damaging valuable infrastructure.
The commitment includes the mobilisation of $100bn of annual climate assistance for developing countries by 2020. “We will also reiterate the importance of delivering the $100-billion a year by 2020 – [a] goal that was not met by developed countries.”
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