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Africa delivers the first mechanism for international cooperation on climate change adaptation under the Paris Agreement
The African Development Bank’s Adaptation Benefits Mechanism (ABM), piloted across Africa sinc...
African Development Bank wins prestigious award for its innovative Adaptation Benefits Mechanism
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has been awarded the Special Jury Grand Prix at the inaugural F...
The African Development Bank and the UN Capital Development Fund showcase non-market tools to mobilize finance for adaptation at the Africa Climate Week that took place in September 2022, in Libreville, Gabon
The African Development Bank and the UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) featured two innovative mec...
COP26: African Development Bank forges ahead with new Adaptation Benefits Mechanism
The African Development Bank is forging ahead with its flagship adaptation financing facility — th...
As warming worsens floods, snake-like mobile dams could protect Africans
GLASGOW, Nov 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Mobile “slamdam” flood barriers that look like ...
Resilience and adaptation to climate change 1/2
Part 1 – Financing adaptation and resilience to climate change: why it matters After two hurricane...
Resilience and adaptation to climate change 2/2
Part 2 – Financing adaptation and resilience to climate change: what do we need to do? In Part 1...
African Development Bank climate change initiative: Top experts form the Adaptation Benefits Mechanism board
The African Development Bank has appointed a group of renowned experts to the board of a continental...
Valuing Resilience – Why should the international community contribute towards the costs of adaptation to climate change and how can it be done?
Adaptation benefits are in a similar position today to that of emission reductions in the 1990s, whe...
African Development Bank launches pilot phase of Adaptation Benefits Mechanism
The public sector cannot provide enough finance to make African countries resilient to climate chang...