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Dissecting Africa's bold climate finance plan

Patrick Verkooijen, Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) global CEO when he visited the Ngai Ndethya sand dam in Kibwezi East. [Stephen Nzioka, Standard]

Through the upcoming Africa Climate Summit, Africa aims to propose ambitious ideas for a new global climate finance structure to tackle Africa's debt distress and inadequate resource allocation for climate change adaptation and mitigation.

To break free from this cycle, Africa urges multinational development banks to rethink their lending and debt management strategies. The goal is to prevent further debt distress in African and other global south nations while advancing climate change efforts.

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