1st Edition
Climate Finance in Africa and Developing Countries Bridging the Gap and Building a Sustainable Future
Author bio
Preface
Acknowledgements
Acronyms
CHAPTER ONE
1. Introduction to the Climate Change and Climate Financing
0. Introduction to climate finance in the Globe
0.1. The Global Landscape of Climate Vulnerability and Climate Finance Options:
1. Introduction to the Climate Finance in Africa and Developing Countries
1.1. Overview of Climate Change and Climate Finance
1.2. Global Warming/Climate Change: An Increase Threat
1.2.1. Climate Change: A Global Crisis.
1.2.2. The Causes of Climate Change
1.2.3. Implications of Climate Change
1.3. Building Resilience through Climate Finance
1.4. Africa’s Climate Finance Challenge: A Funding Gap Threatens Progress
1.5. Challenges Hinder Africa’s Access to Climate Finance
1.5.1. Bridging the Gap: Solutions for Effective Climate Finance Mobilization
1.6. The Urgency of Bridging the Climate Finance Gap in Africa
1.7. Conclusion
1.8. Reference
2. The Land Scape of Climate Financing in Africa
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Climate vulnerability
2.3. Financial flows for climate action: a broader perspective
2.3.1. Challenges in estimating climate finance flows
2.4. The loss and damage fund
2.4.1. The Power of Money and Measurement in Combating Climate Change
2.4.2. Value Chains for Sustainable Forest Management: The Power of Directives and Guidelines.
2.5. Climate action in Africa
2.6. Climate Finance Mechanisms in Africa and Developing Countries
2.6.1. Climate Finance flow and accountability
2.6.2. Climate fund disbursements rate
2.6.3. Completion rate of climate finance projects
2.7. Conclusion
2.8. Reference
3. The Status quo of African countries on climate financing
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Ratification of global environmental agreements
3.3. Framework for Climate-Resilient Health: Prioritizing People and Equity
3.4. Implementation of national policies and strategies
3.5. Ambition and plans on climate financing the case of Ethiopia
3.5.1. Climate Change Threatens Ethiopia's Middle-Income Goals
3.5.2. Ethiopia's ambitious climate action plan
3.6. Climate finance project implementation and tracking
3.6.1. Climate change adaptation project monitoring and tracking
3.6.2. Climate change mitigation projects monitoring and tracking
3.6.3. Public and private climate finance projects tracking and follow-ups
3.7. Conclusion
3.8. Reference
4. The capacity of climate financing in Africa
4.2. Climate Response Facility in Africa
4.3. The opportunities and challenges
4.4. Climate financing in Africa
4.4.1. Barriers to Climate Fund Access: Proposal Issues Africa's Development
4.4.2. Climate financed project application guides
4.4.3. Structures and procedures for climate finance project applications
4.4.4. Building Capacity for Effective Climate Finance in Africa.
4.4.5. Guides and support for successful climate negotiations
4.5. The milestones made and the hindrances
4.5.1. COP 28: A Mixed Bag of Financial Commitments
4.5.2. The COP28 Outcomes
4.5.3. The COP29 Outcomes and expectations
4.6. Conclusion
4.7. Reference
5. Climate financing case studies
5.2. Introduction
5.2. The strength and weakness of climate change mitigation and adaptation
5.3. How different technologies used to facilitate climate finance
5.4. Gender and marginalized groups contribution to climate finance
5.4. Climate finance mechanisms focusing in Africa and developing countries
5.5. Overview and impacts of climate finances projects in Africa
5.6. Conclusion
5.7. Reference
6. Recommendation and future perspectives in effective climate financing
6.1. Recommendations
6.2. Effective Climate Funding
6.3. Future Perspectives
Biography
Meseret Dawit Teweldebrihan is an advisor, climate, and adaptation expert working in multi-sectoral environments for more than ten years. She is an independent researcher and has taken leadership in different climate relevant projects for more than seven years. Dr. Meseret has solid experience in
turning the most challenging experiences into the best achievements of her professional career to benefit her community. She works as a consultant and is involved in different projects. Dr. Meseret’s work is mainly on climate change with gender-sensitive, hydrology, irrigation optimization, socio-hydrology, hydraulic engineering, GIS, land and water development, and related fields. Meseret’s PhD thesis dissertation titled “Optimizing Irrigation Efficiency of Surface-Groundwater with respect to Climate Change and Gender-Sensitive,” and MSc degree in Water Science Engineering (specialization in Hydraulic Engineering Land and Water Development) from the UNESCO-IHE, Delft, the Netherlands, in 2014. She obtained a BSc degree in Soil and Water Engineering and Management from Haramaya University, Ethiopia, in 2011. She has published more than 24 journal articles in accredited publications.
Megersa Olumana Dinka is a graduate with a PhD from the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Science (Vienna) in 2010. He also did postdoctoral research at Tshwane University of Technology (2012–2014). He has an MSc in Irrigation Engineering from Arba Minch University (Ethiopia). He has more than 18 years of experience as an academician and about 22 years of experience as a researcher. Currently, he is the Full Professor and Head of the Department of Civil Engineering Science at University of Johannesburg. He has expert knowledge in water resource engineering discipline specific to hydrology, hydraulics, and water management aspects. He has taught various courses and modules at undergraduate and postgraduate levels successfully. Currently, he is teaching hydrology, hydraulics, and water treatment technology modules at the University of Johannesburg. Moreover, he also supervised a number of postgraduate students (32 MSc and 10 PhD) successfully. He has published more than 70 journal articles, 2 books, 10 book chapters, and 20 conference proceedings in accredited publications.
