UAE Pledges $4.5 Billion to Finance Africa Climate Projects

  • Plan comes months before UN global climate conference COP28
  • Africa needs $100 billion in climate adaptation funding

A COP28UAE banner.

Photographer: Sascha Schuermann/Getty Images 

Lock
This article is for subscribers only.

Sign up for our Middle East newsletter and follow us @middleeast for news on the region.

The United Arab Emirates, the host of this year’s United Nations climate summit, pledged $4.5 billion to help African nations accelerate clean-energy projects.