For the second time in 12 months, Environment ministers attending the African Ministerial Conference on Environment pledged to accelerate green growth. It is an ambitious pledge for economies that have been battered by Covid-19, which has paralysed global supply-chains, reversed GDP growth rates in Africa and thrown back development efforts.
Nevertheless, green growth is within reach, and, importantly, it is already being pursued. Transformative solar and wind farms can be seen in Morocco. In Rwanda, the Africa Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Cooling and Cold Chain is increasing farmers’ revenues and foster low-carbon development. Ethiopia is planting 20 billion trees and it is sending out one billion seeds to its neighbours.
