Africa Seeks Climate Finance At UNGA

African climate projects are helping restore degraded farmland, revive coastal mangrove forests and channel loans to smallholder farmers, with the impact now beginning to show in national figures. At the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly, which convenes in mid-September, backers are calling for stronger financing that can go beyond donor grants and provide longer-term support. On Kenya’s southern coast, in Gazi Bay, the Aga Khan Foundation and Portugal’s Camões Institute are working to restore 226 hectares of mangrove forest. About 65,000 seedlings have been planted across six hectares.