The Africa Development Bank (AfDB) Climate Change boss said Monday that the Green Climate Fund should be launched in the Durban climate conference to meet vulnerable Africa's climate change adaptation needs, reports the Daily China. "Africa's priority on climate change is adaptation. Now the issue is to get access to finance to really to make sure that adaptation plans are really implemented," said AfDB Climate Change director Al-Hamdou Dorsouma.
"So the money from private sector is going to support mitigation and you know that mitigation is not a priority in Africa so far. We need to take action on adaptation and if the money comes from private sector we need to ensure that this money also support adaptation not only mitigation," he continues.