Climate action: US announces $5m grant to African Development Bank
ABUJA, Nigeria (The Informant247) – The United States’ government will provide a five-million-dollar grant to the African Development Bank (AfDB) to support efforts to reduce methane gas emission across Africa, U.S. Special Presidential envoy for climate John Kerry said on Thursday.
Kerry said more than 25 countries on the continent had joined the Global Methane Pledge, “a resounding level of support for the importance of methane in keeping 1.5 degrees within reach”.
“I am very pleased that AfDB is responding to the increased global attention on methane emissions and is planning to increase their own focus on methane abatement in coming years,” he said at a breakfast event held on the sideline of the ongoing 18th African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) being held in Dakar, Senegal.
The Global Methane pledge, inaugurated during COP26, targets reducing emissions of methane by at least 30 per cent from 2020 levels over the next seven years.
