World leaders reaffirm their support to climate adaptation at GCA Africa office launch

The Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) recently launched its Africa regional office in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. GCA Africa will work with partners across the continent to scale and accelerate adaptation action that protects African communities from the impacts of climate change.

As part of its mission, the Africa regional office will share existing best practice across the continent and work to ensure African countries are fully integrated into broader international adaptation efforts. Also, among GCA Africa’s goals is to improve food security for 1 billion people in sub-Saharan Africa by 2030.

Participants and speakers at the high-level launch included: GCA co-chair and former United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon; Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta; Ethiopia’s President Sahle-Work Zewde; Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo; United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohamed; IMF Managing Director, Kristalina Georgieva, and government ministers from Norway, Sweden and Germany among other representatives.

Following the high-level panel was a Partnership Forum that allowed stakeholders to discuss adaptation efforts, existing gaps, best practice, challenges and opportunities to build resilience in Africa.

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