Sign up Also receive offers from The Africa Report Also receive offers from The Africa Report's partnersThe Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), one of the continent’s leading infrastructure financiers, believes this disparity in global efforts to reach net zero is shame, as it masks potential for progress. On one side is Africa, which bears a disproportionate burden from the negative impact of climate change, despite contributing only 3.8% of greenhouse gas emissions. This is creating a misleading sense of normalcy as climate issues escalate in the global South. Sign up Also receive offers from The Africa Report Also receive offers from The Africa Report's partnersTo that end, they have partnered with international leadership development organisation Common Purpose to create a leadership programme for leaders from both north and south, to bridge the divide. Driving difficult conversationsSome 50 dynamic young leaders from Africa and the rest of the world will train together to better learn to understand what climate change actually looks like from the other end of the planet and, hopefully, do something about it.

Source: The North Africa Journal July 26, 2023 10:04 UTC