Despite the robustness of the debate that characterized the African Regional Loss and Damage and Climate Financing Conference conversations in its third day, in Lilongwe, Malawi, African civil society players, climate activists and experts were unanimous in their decision. A resounding NO, to market-based mechanisms through insurances schemes for taking…
Feature: Restore Africa’s degraded land – Climate Adaptation Summit
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Land is one of Africa’s most abundant resources, but it has become degraded across large swathes of the continent. Restoring the productivity of land will form a vital part of Africa’s sustainable adaptation to climate change – the Climate Adaptation Summit heard this week. CDKN’s Mairi Dupar reports.
“Land restoration has a positive impact on the economy, on business, on biodiversity and is a carbon sink, so you have multiple opportunities that can be achieved through land restoration,” Ibrahaim Thiaw told the Climate Adaptation Summit this week.
Speaking at a special Africa-focused event, Mr Thiaw, the Executive Secretary of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, said that if African governments were serious about “building back better” from the Covid-19 pandemic, then “we have to invest heavily in land restoration and in ecosystem-based adaptation” to climate change. This