The India and Africa Partnership for Sustainability
15 March 2019. Nairobi. The India and Africa Partnership for Sustainability was hosted on the sidelines of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA). The series of roundtables were hosted by Centre for New Economic Diplomacy (CNED), founded by the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) and the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID). As an initiative, amongst others, CNED also aims to explore avenues through which India can partner with its immediate neighbourhood and African nations in the implementation of the SDG goals. Promoting green technology forms the core of both India and Africa’s climate change agenda – India has placed special emphasis on climate change technology transfer in its climate pledge, and has an annual Research and Development (R and D) budget of USD 15 billion. In Africa, the African Climate Technology Center, co-created by the African Development Bank, is spearheading climate change research projects across the continent. ...
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