Troubling insight into Africa’s share in heavy burden of climate change
A worker legally cuts a tree by in the north-east of the DRC. The tropical rainforests spanning Gabon and the DR Congo that are offered to humanity as a public good, are considered the lungs of the entire world ecosystem. PHOTO | AFP
Africa may be rich and poor at the same time, but this kind of oxymoron is raising debate on just how to calculate the value of countries on the continent, which essentially could determine how much credit they can access.
This week at the Annual Meetings of the Africa Development Bank (AfDB) in Sharm El-Sheikh, the bank’s president Akinwumi Adesina argued African countries are undervalued in spite of the burden they are holding for the world when it comes to climate change.
