NAIROBI - With the world’s forests increasingly under threat from climate change and logging, leaders and top bank chiefs pledged billions on Thursday to help reverse the steep decline in Africa’s woodland areas.
“Deforestation and degradation of our environment ultimately undermine our efforts towards biodiversity conservation, climate change mitigation as well as adaptation. Unlike Southeast Asia and South America, where big agribusiness flattens rainforest for mega-farming projects, much of central and eastern Africa’s loss stems from small-scale farming and energy use.
“Solar today in Africa produces only 1.5% of electricity. That’s a shocking number. It cannot be like this.” France’s President Emmanuel Macron also pledged an additional 500 million euros towards green projects in Africa.Africa, the world’s least developed inhabited continent, is already feeling the effects of the warming planet.
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