The recently completed UNDP-OneWorld climate finance readiness (CFR) project in Eastern (Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania) and Southern Africa (Lesotho, Mozambique and Zambia) drew on the CFR status and aspirations of these countries to inform and guide the process of climate funding in Africa, particularly in light of the emergent Green Climate Fund (GCF) – a central fund in the global climate finance architecture – set to launch in 2015.Many of the world’s most vulnerable countries are in Africa, with many already experiencing the reality of climate change. This supports the contention that damage from climate change, relative to GDP and population, is likely to be higher in Africa than in any other region…
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