- 17% of global population
- Average 3% of CO2 emission historically
- Africans pushed into extreme poverty (2021) – 30 million
- Jobs lost (2021) – 22 million
- No better signs for 2022 and 2023
Post Pandemic recovery – Russia-Ukraine was could make a dent for years
- Africans who can be pushed into extreme poverty in 2022 – 1.8 million
- Africans who can be pushed into extreme poverty in 2023 – 2.1 million
What Africa needs or the additional financial needs
- For 2020-22 – $432 billion
Expected losses due to climate control pledges
- $1.3 trillion – between 2022 and 2030 – the financial impact on the African continent – on collective action on climate change
- 5% to 15% – GDP loss to the African continent to climate change
- $18.3 billion – climate finance to African countries – between 2016 and 2019
- $1288.2 billion – the climate finance gap the African countries are facing (2020 to 2030)
(African Development Bank)
