Using Africa’s vast agricultural resources to help tackle climate change could earn the continent $1.5 billion a year, a World Bank head said on Tuesday.
The region should also tap its underexploited renewable resources, particularly hydropower, to meet increasing energy demand and boost both growth and development.
“It is essential that climate change be viewed as a major development opportunity for Africa given the anticipated increase in the energy requirements as growth accelerates,” the Bank’s managing director Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala told a public lecture at the London School of Economics.
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