Cities across Africa are collaborating to develop and implement ways to reduce their vulnerability to environmental disasters and to adapt to climate change. In Accra, city officials from nine African cities, including Accra, Addis Ababa, Cape Town, Dakar, Durban, Johannesburg, Lagos, Nairobi, and Tshwane, attended the C40 African Adaptation Forum, the first-ever regional workshop in Africa organised by the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group.
The C40 Cities Finance Facility have offered to help Durban develop a business case to self-fund community-based management of thousands of kilometres of its watercourses. The initiative will provide multiple-co-benefits like solid waste and alien invasive plant reduction, improvement of its biodiversity and reduction of poverty. It’s about improving the lives of Durban communities.
The C40 Cities Finance Facility, is supporting Durban (eThekwini) to expand the cities existing ecosystem-based adaptation project to clear over 4000Km of watercourse of litter and alien vegetation.
