Africa: Emerging Climate Finance Infrastructure to Match Africa's Green Bankable Solutions

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Africa: Emerging Climate Finance Infrastructure to Match Africa's Green Bankable Solutions

[IPS] Dubai -- Although long profiled as the face of climate change, a high-risk continent with a pipeline of unbankable green projects, there are areas where Africa is leading the world. The 1987 accidental discovery of the first deposit of natural hydrogen during a water drilling campaign in Bourakebougou village, Mali, is today proving that Africa can export viable green solutions.

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