Climate: the African Development Bank heavily involved in the International Summit on Adaptation to Climate Change

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An international adaptation summit held on January 25-26. The President of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org), Akinwumi A. Adesina, will take an active part in the International Summit on Adaptation to Climate Change which opens on Monday 25 January. 

The President of the Bank will speak in three sessions, including one devoted to the interministerial dialogue on global climate adaptation and another to the dialogue with Africa. At the summit, which continues on January 26, Akinwumi A. Adesina will also participate in the dialogue with heads of state and other world leaders. 

To salute its commitment to climate finance, the Bank was chosen in 2020 by development partners to house the Africa Regional Office of the Global Center on Adaptation. President Adesina inaugurated this new center on September 16, 2020 in the presence of African heads of state and other eminent personalities, including Ban Ki Moon, former Secretary General of the UN, and Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund . 

In the aftermath of the United Nations Climate Conference organized in Paris in 2015 (COP 21), the African Development Bank adopted a Climate Action Plan for the period 2016-2020 (https: / /bit.ly/3nAPs9c) which places a high priority on building climate resilience. In addition to its commitment to adaptation, the Bank has made exceptional efforts to mobilize climate finance. In recent years, the Bank's resources allocated to financing adaptation to climate change and resilience have quintupled, from US $ 338 million in 2016 to US $ 2 billion in 2019 (http: // bit .ly / 2LnocOr). 

The President of the African Development Bank, Akinwumi A. Adesina, has been named "champion" of the African initiative of the "Great Green Wall" (GGW), on the sidelines of the 2021 edition of the "One Planet Summit" held January 11. This initiative brings together eleven countries ranging from Senegal in the West to Djibouti in the East.

Organized at the initiative of the Netherlands and the World Adaptation Center, the January 25-26 summit will serve as a framework for launching a comprehensive adaptation agenda that will set out clear commitments to achieve implementing new concrete partnerships capable of strengthening the planet's resilience to climate change.

Cassien Tribunal Aungane, Editor

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