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United States of America (USA) and Europe pledge $40 million to the Africa Adaptation Initiative (AAI)

The pledges included US$25 million from the USA, €5 million from the EU, €5 million from Germany, and US$4.5 million from Open Society Foundations (OSF)

The Africa Adaptation Initiative (AAI) (AfricaAdaptationInitiative.org), the African Union flagship initiative working to enhance concrete adaptation on the ground, has announced that pledges totalling US$40 million were made at COP27. The pledges included US$25 million from the USA, €5 million from the EU, €5 million from Germany, and US$4.5 million…

Africa Adaptation Initiative
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Africa Adaptation Initiative: A Response to Africa Biggest Challenge

This will be an opportunity to consider the most effective measures to help close the Adaptation Gap in Africa, which experts estimate to be between USD 7 billion and 15 billion per year by 2020, increasing thereafter

The first Africa Adaptation Initiative (AAI) Partners (http://AfricaAdaptationInitiative.org/rt/) Roundtable Meeting will take place on Monday 24 September 2018, from 10.30 a.m. – 11.30 a.m. in New-York at the UN Secretariat Conference Room 5, in margins of 73rd UN General Assembly (UNGA). This is jointly hosted by the Gabonese Government, on…