Following the development, the new fund will see donors contribute to a global fund to save lives and livelihoods from climate change-related disasters.
The group s chair of the African Group of Negotiators, Ephraim Shitima said that the summit should provide solutions to the continent s millions of people, adding that Africa requires finance to adapt to extreme weather, as well as to facilitate just energy transition and increase renewable energy uptake, , COP27, climate change
Battling droughts, sandstorms, floods, wildfires, coastal erosion, cyclones and other weather events exacerbated by climate change, the African continent needs to adapt, but it needs funds to do so, leaders and negotiators from the continent said at the U.N. climate summit.
African nations are seeking funding at the U.N. climate summit to adapt to climate change. The funds will be used to provide solutions to millions of people in the continent.