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• Clean Air Flagship was launched to save lives and slow climate change by boosting cooperation and reducing pollutant emissions.
• UNEP and CCAC’s Used Heavy Duty Vehicles and the Environment report provides a roadmap to reducing the sector’s emissions through standardizing, monitoring, and greening strategies
• The launch of a significant cost of inaction study supports the economic case to act on short-lived climate pollutants to limit hazardous global warming and climate disasters.

Government Ministers and partners of the UNEP-convened Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) have this week put in place a raft of integrated climate and clean air initiatives designed to combat the triple planetary crisis of climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss.

At the CCAC’s annual Climate & Clean Air Ministerial Meeting, which took place in Nairobi, Kenya, this week ahead of the sixth session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-6), countries and partners launched a Clean Air …

• In Benin, the Fund will support the design of climate adaptation measures and best practices in port operations.
• The financing will see Morocco produce and sell 105 million cubic meters of potable water to around 1.5 million people in Safi and El Jadida.
• These measures will mitigate the imminent climate change risks associated with temperature and sea level rises and droughts.

The Canada–African Development Bank Climate Fund (CACF), established to support gender-affirmative climate change projects in Africa, has approved $36.3 million for two private sector operations to advance climate adaptation initiatives across Africa.

This amount, provided in the form of concessional loans to private sector companies, includes $18.3 million approved for the rehabilitation and expansion of the Port Autonome de Cotonou in Benin and another $18 million to support the construction of three seawater desalination plants under the Green Investment Program of the OCP Group.

Climate adaptation in Benin

• East Africa’s largest economy Kenya grappling with about 79 per cent climate change financing gap. 
• The virtual academy will provide access to borderless, flexible, informative training to foster skills, knowledge and collaborations on climate change. 
• Lack of understanding about the effects of climate change has also contributed to the huge climate change financing gap.

Kenya is facing a 79 percent climate change financing gap amidst increasing global warming effects causing havoc in developing countries. The African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) Climate Change Programme lead, Dr Joel Oyango, says the situation will turn worse if nothing is done to finance adaptation to climate change effects.

“Kenya is already feeling the effects of climate change. The widespread poverty, recurrent droughts, and floods coupled by inequitable land distribution. Overdependence on rain-fed agriculture and limited coping mechanisms all combine to increase people’s vulnerability to climate change,” Dr Onyango said.

He said many Kenyans …