African Adaptation Initiative is expected to be an opportunity to consider the most effective measures to help close the Adaptation Gap in Africa, which experts estimate to be between $7 billion and $15 billion per year by 2020, increasing thereafter. The first Africa Adaptation Initiative (AAI) Partners Roundtable Meeting will take place on Monday 24 September 2018 in New-York at the UN Secretariat Conference in margins of 73rd UN General Assembly (UNGA). This is jointly hosted by the Gabonese Government, on behalf of the African Union’s Committee of Head of State on Climate Change (CAHOSCC) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). This will be an opportunity to consider the most effective measures to help close the Adaptation Gap in Africa, which experts estimate to be between USD 7 billion and 15 billion per year by 2020, increasing thereafter. These multiple consequences of climate change make adaptation the priority for Africa.

Source: News Business Ethiopia September 19, 2018 13:52 UTC