Private investment opportunities to support climate change adaptation against floods and droughts in Africa could reach a total of $100 billion by 2040, according to a new IFC study.
By Yoweri Kaguta Museveni
News from Europe that a vast windfarm is being demolished to make way for a new open-pit coal mine is the reprehensible double standard we in Africa have come to expect.
The government will soon share strategies for the restoration of the environment and natural resources following a spell of global climate challenges.
President Yoweri Museveni has said Uganda is committed to ensuring sustainable use of the environment and the natural resources saying these are at the core of sustainable development and critical for social economic development and transformation, healthy ecosystems and human survival.
The Agriculture Business Initiative has announced the roll-out of the Green Challenge Fund to support SMEs and farmers to increase their resilience to climate change.
The EU-funded Uganda Green Enterprise Finance Accelerator (UGEFA), which provides sustainable Ugandan enterprises with support to scale and contribute to a green and inclusive economy, has today announced that it is accepting applications for its fourth and final cohort to join its programme.
President Yoweri Museveni has asked United Nations (UN) agencies in Uganda to focus on fighting environmental degradation which is a big danger to human existence and development in the face of climate change.
The Parliamentary committee on Environment and Natural Resources has started scrutinizing the Mining and Minerals Bill, 2021, that among others seeks to introduce licenses for exploration of building substances such as sand, murram, clay and others.
The East African Community (EAC) and Germany have firmed up their longstanding cooperation by signing an additional US$11.5 million financing agreement to support water resource management at the Lake Victoria Basin Commission (LVBC).
