Seydou Hanne Latest News January 28, 2021 African Development Bank’s Adaptation Benefits Mechanism helps to climate-proof Ivorian smallholder farms’ cocoa yields Help is on the way for the global cocoa supply chain, severely threatened by climate change. A new p... Read More
Seydou Hanne Latest News December 17, 2020 Resilience and adaptation to climate change 2/2 Part 2 – Financing adaptation and resilience to climate change: what do we need to do? In Part 1... Read More
Seydou Hanne Blog December 17, 2020 Resilience and adaptation to climate change 1/2 Part 1 – Financing adaptation and resilience to climate change: why it matters After two hurricane... Read More
Seydou Hanne Latest News November 19, 2019 African Development Bank climate change initiative: Top experts form the Adaptation Benefits Mechanism board The African Development Bank has appointed a group of renowned experts to the board of a continental... Read More
Seydou Hanne Blog October 21, 2019 Valuing Resilience – Why should the international community contribute towards the costs of adaptation to climate change and how can it be done? Adaptation benefits are in a similar position today to that of emission reductions in the 1990s, whe... Read More
Seydou Hanne Latest News May 18, 2019 African Development Bank launches pilot phase of Adaptation Benefits Mechanism The public sector cannot provide enough finance to make African countries resilient to climate chang... Read More
Seydou Hanne Latest News December 10, 2018 Applying results-based finance to the Paris Agreement Results-based finance is a mechanism that enables an “off-taker” to pay a “project developer... Read More
Seydou Hanne Blog April 12, 2017 Public and private sector investment in adaptation The imbalance in investment in adaptation and mitigation is both well documented and logical. The Mu... Read More
Seydou Hanne Blog April 12, 2017 Why is the Adaptation Benefit Mechanism a non-market mechanism? Article 6 of the Paris Agreement makes provision for the development of both market and non-market m... Read More