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    TDB, AFD Sign $150m Credit Line to Finance Green Infrastructure in Africa

    Posted On 30 Aug 2020
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    NEW AFRICA BUSINESS NEWS (NABN) Accra, Ghana– The Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank (TDB) and Agence Française de Développement (AFD) signed a $150 million credit line agreement aimed at financing climate infrastructure projects in Africa.

    The non-sovereign loan’s objective is to strengthen TDB in its role as a leading regional bank for green finance in the region it serves in Eastern and Southern Africa. The facility will increase the supply of climate finance from TDB, directly contributing to the achievement of the objectives outlined in the nationally determined contributions (NDCs) of TDB member countries in climate change mitigation and adaptation, and in line with Sustainable Development Goals investments and project objectives in the countries where it operates.

    Most of the facility (80%) will be dedicated to the financing of eligible climate projects, according to streamlined International Development Finance Club (IDFC) and Multilateral Development Banks (MDB) accorded principles, namely projects that promote efforts to reduce or limit greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions or enhance GHG sequestration, or support adaptation projects and sectorial activities.

    The remaining 20% aims to respond with more flexibility to TDB’s long-term resource requirements for project funding activities. It will allow for the funding of projects which are compatible with the 2015 Paris Agreement and contribute to SDGs, in other sectors such as telecommunications, health or education.

    This line of credit will be instrumental in increasing and leveraging the supply of green financing over a vast area of the African continent and thus contribute to sustainable economic development and more specifically to: economic growth (industrial development and creation of new sectors); reduction of energy bills; security of energy supply; and job creation at all stages of the value chain. Adaptation-type infrastructure will also contribute to improving the countries’ resilience to climate change.

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    Likewise, the facility will contribute to the reduction of inequalities including those spurred on by climate change by creating direct and indirect employment in the countries benefiting from AFD financing. Local populations will benefit from the short-term jobs created through the projects implemented. Energy projects will also promote access to electricity for populations while reducing beneficiary countries’ dependence on fossil fuels.

    ”As members of IDFC, both AFD and TDB are working to align financial flows to the climate agenda as well as to SDGs,” says Admassu TADESSE, TDB President and Chief Executive. ”With now over 70% of our energy portfolio in renewables, our expanding partnership with AFD will enable the Bank to accelerate further its climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts, and give a boost to the global and regional impetus driving low-carbon development in our member states.

    ” AFD Kenya Country Director, Ghislain de VALON, is echoing this assertion: ”TDB and AFD are walking the same path, voluntarily accelerating on Climate Finance for infrastructure in Africa, as the opportunity truly exists to switch paradigm and reinforce the use of renewable energy and climate change investments in countries that are already following this universal trend. It takes two long-time partners like AFD and TDB to go this bold way, but we are really confident that this funding will enable sound achievements and attainment of SDG related goals.

    ” The relation between TDB and AFD started 8 years ago, with a technical assistance program launched in 2012, which led to the signing, in 2017, of a first credit agreement amounting to $75 million to finance development infrastructure, with a new technical assistance program dedicated to strengthening climate finance and environmental and social assessments, which in turn, allowed for the signing of this new facility.

     

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    1. Dingane August 30, 2020 at 3:06 am Reply

      Always, thank you for reporting. My favorite newspaper. Please continue informing us with all developments happening in our great continent, that they would never and ever report. You know them, old kids in the block. Cape town South Africa. Dingane

    2. Justina August 30, 2020 at 3:16 am Reply

      Green infrastructure is what our governments and businesses all over Africa, should invest in. Am sure Africa will be leader in this great endeavor. Justina in Abuja, Nigeria

    3. Tanya August 30, 2020 at 3:23 am Reply

      Like to thank you, Journalist Adorsu, enjoy reading your reports and thank you with your team, for the news. Morogoro in Tanzania. Tanya

    4. Meron August 30, 2020 at 3:31 am Reply

      Time to invest more money to green climate infrastructures all over Africa and remove all the so called borders, that continue dividing us. Thank you for the report. Addis Ababa. Meron

    5. Peter August 30, 2020 at 3:41 am Reply

      So glad to see green energy spreading all over our Continent. Let’s continue making it happen. Yes, we are Afrika. Lilongwe Malawi. Peter

    6. Hans August 30, 2020 at 3:48 am Reply

      Me and my beautiful wife are follower of new Africa business news on face book. We love it. Thank you. Oslo Norway. Hans

    7. Obuya August 30, 2020 at 3:52 am Reply

      Many thanks for reporting. Am a happy follower too of this online newspaper. Obuya in Nairobi, Kenya

    8. Zahra August 30, 2020 at 4:04 am Reply

      Green energy and Green Infrastructure, would help us grow our economic and time stop taking loans from non African governments, that’s slowing developments of our great Africa. We have to use the resources that we have now and build the Continent. Thank you for the reports. Cairo Egypt. Zahra

    9. Arielle August 30, 2020 at 4:09 am Reply

      Thank you for the newsletter. Paris France. Arielle

    10. Jeanne August 30, 2020 at 4:22 am Reply

      Dingane you dam right and the new kid in the block, China. Time to stop them, before is too late. Jeanne in London, England

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