Toward Low Emission Development: Visionary Leaders Win New Annual Climate and Development Prizes

LEDS winners

Dear Journalist/Blogger,

APO will award one African journalist/blogger transport, accommodation and daily allowance to attend the 2014 Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank Group held in Kigali, Rwanda, on 19-23 May 2014.

Only African journalists/bloggers following APO on Twitter (https://twitter.com/apo_source) before midnight on 10 May 2014 will be eligible.

The deadline for entry is midnight on 10 May 2014.

Winner will be announced on 12 May 2014.

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Masaki Inaba, Japan Citizens Network during the meeting..

Pan African Climate Justice Alliance and Africa Development Interchange Network host side event at the UN’s Third Financing for Development conference in Addis Ababa to: discuss the importance of climate finance, and the relationship of climate finance to the FfD discussions and post-2015 process.

The crucial role of climate finance within the development agenda was cast under the spotlight last night during discussions at a side...

The Climate Change and Development in Africa (CCDA) conference series was conceived as an annual forum to enable linkages between climate science and development policy by promoting transparent discussions between key stakeholders in the climate and development community. CCDA seeks to mainstream climate information into decision making and strengthen capacities focusing on climate sensitive sectors such as agriculture, food security, energy and transport. To support Africa’s towards...

The Third Session of the African Ministerial Conference on Meteorology (AMCOMET) will be hosted by the government of Cabo Verde from 10th -14th February

Ministers responsible for meteorology in Africa are meeting to coordinate and accelerate regional efforts to strengthen resilience to extreme weather hazards and adapt to climate change.

The Third Session of the African Ministerial Conference on Meteorology (AMCOMET) (http://www.wmo.int/amcomet) will be hosted by the government of Cabo...

African businessman and philanthropist Tony Elumelu.

Oxford, United Kingdom.  African businessman and philanthropist Tony Elumelu has called on business leaders to make decisions that will increase economic and social wealth, and promote development in the communities and nations in which they operate. Mr. Elumelu, the Chairman of Heirs Holdings and the Founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, stated this in a closing keynote speech titled,“Africapitalism as a Catalyst for Development in...