Opinion / Columnist
Africa Development Bank braced for Energy Revolution
10 May 2016 at 08:42hrs | Views
Towards the end of this month of May. One of the biggest financial and banking cooperation, Africa Development Bank will host an annual meeting focusing on Energy resources infrastructure. The city of Lusaka, Zambia will be a hive of activity with Energy, science, climate press corps, policy makers, activists and cooperates to discuss and deliberate about the new energy projects for Africa and the way forward. The African Development Bank biggest Annual meeting is embracing interesting themes that are complementing the two crtitical SDGS7 and 13 that ensure the access to affordable, reliable and sustainable energy for all and take urgent action on climate change and its impact.
This powerful continental meeting that is expecting 5000 delegates and is going to thoroughly interrogate mostly energy issues which had been topping headlines in few months ago. Subject matters will include Energy and Climate change, the Bank and its new energy priorities and deals.One other priority topic will be one of the Bank High 5 Priority code named Light up and Power Africa. The meeting will also highlight on the resolutions of the last ended UN climate talks in Paris as well as revisiting the Paris Agreement on Climate ( COP21). The AFDB annual meeting will be also attended by Governors of Banks, Institutions of finance, Ministries of economic and trade and other Industry and related policy makers.It is a forum of Cooperate and financial governance interrogating and finding solutions on critical issues of climate and energy at hand.
The Bank is complementing United Nations, Climate Tracker /Global Break free from Fossils Writers Fellowship program, International Environmental and Climate projects. The Annual forum is also a build up to COP22 Morocco in 2016 and it seeks to provide awareness and confidence to African civil society and governments on the action needed to deal with Climate Change and its negative impacts as well as the
contribution of dirty energy to Climate change and its effects.
Zambia is the best venue for this event for it have also unresolved climate and energy like its neighbors Zimbabwe, Malawi and South Africa. Environmental, Climate and Energy issues are rarely debated in parliaments, cabinets and grassroots levels.
This powerful continental meeting that is expecting 5000 delegates and is going to thoroughly interrogate mostly energy issues which had been topping headlines in few months ago. Subject matters will include Energy and Climate change, the Bank and its new energy priorities and deals.One other priority topic will be one of the Bank High 5 Priority code named Light up and Power Africa. The meeting will also highlight on the resolutions of the last ended UN climate talks in Paris as well as revisiting the Paris Agreement on Climate ( COP21). The AFDB annual meeting will be also attended by Governors of Banks, Institutions of finance, Ministries of economic and trade and other Industry and related policy makers.It is a forum of Cooperate and financial governance interrogating and finding solutions on critical issues of climate and energy at hand.
contribution of dirty energy to Climate change and its effects.
Zambia is the best venue for this event for it have also unresolved climate and energy like its neighbors Zimbabwe, Malawi and South Africa. Environmental, Climate and Energy issues are rarely debated in parliaments, cabinets and grassroots levels.
Source - Mbizo Chirasha
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