The Africa Climate Resilience Investment Summit:

THE FOURTH AFRICA CLIMATE RESILIENCE INVESTMENT SUMMIT 5-7 MARCH 2019, SANDTON CONFERENCE CENTRE, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA

The Africa Climate Resilience Investment Summit: Bringing Public & Private Sector Together 5-7 March 2019 Sandton Conference Centre, Johannesburg In Partnership with

Conference Chair: Prof. Jamal Saghir, Former Director and Senior Regional Advisor for Africa, The World Bank

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2019 Summit Brochure AFRICA: towards a climate resilient future

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THE AFRICA CLIMATE RESILIENCE INVESTMENT SUMMIT: Bringing Public & Private Sector Together

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he Africa Climate Resilience Investment Summit (ACRIS IV) is now in its 4th year, this time set to take place in Johannesburg, South Africa. On each occasion ACRIS has enjoyed the partnership and involvement of the African Union Commission and the World Bank. The main focus of ACRIS IV would be AFRI-RES, an Africa-based networked centre of technical competence and excellence with the overall objective to strengthen the capacity of African institutions (including national governments, river basin organizations, Regional Economic Communities, power pools, among others) as well as the private sector (project developers and financiers) to plan, design, and implement infrastructure investments that are resilient to climate variability and change in selected sectors.

The Paris Agreement increases opportunities for climatesmart investment in African infrastructure including energy, transport, water, agriculture, and urbanization, and sends a decisive market signal that the transition to a thriving clean economy is inevitable, irreversible, and irresistible, with an important role for private sector and private investment in climate solutions.

ACRIS IV will assist governments, planners, private developers in Africa to integrate climate change in project planning and design, whilst also introducing international technology and service providers that can deliver on the announced projects. To fill Africa’s infrastructure gap, some USD 93 billion per year for the next decade will need

to be invested. Much of this investment will support the construction of long-lived infrastructure (e.g. dams, power stations, irrigation canals, transport corridors, etc.), which may be vulnerable to changes in climatic patterns. The establishment of an Africa Climate Resilient Investment Facility (AFRI-RES) implemented by the African Climate Policy Centre (ACPC) and the World Bank, supported by the NDF and anchored with the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) will also be a critical step in this direction.

All parties will be playing a very active role at ACRIS IV and represented at the highest level.

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CRIS offers a more intimate way of gaining new opportunities and customers from that of exhibitions and conferences enabling more networking and face time through longer refreshment and lunch breaks, dedicated networking and exhibiting zones, a gala dinner and pre-scheduled match making meetings using the latest ‘meeting’ software.

Those that attended previously agree that this is now their preferred deal making platform for Resilient Infrastructure opportunities in Africa. The event brings together suppliers who are looking to sell to the developers, developers who seek investment, investors who want to strike deals with government ministers and ministers who want to engage all groups to discuss new opportunities in their countries. ACRIS enjoys the added value

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of partnering officially with the African Union Commission; the African Development Bank, the Economic Commission of Africa, The World Bank and the South African government.

ACRIS brings skills, technology, investment, planning, projects and expertise all for the development of climate-resilient infrastructure.

• High-Level Plenary Sessions • Private Sector/Public Sector One-to-One Matchmaking Meetings (pre-scheduled) • Workshops - Training, Implementation Strategising & Planning • Networking & Exhibition Stands • Cultural Dinner, Receptions & Socialising

CEOs discuss market perspective and provide big picture commentary with audience participation

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ACRIS IV Structure ACRIS IV Agenda is being drafted and will deal with Climate Resilience Investments covering the sectors mentioned below: Participation: The main participants are: the African Ministers in charge of Environment, Climate Change, Agriculture, Food Security, Transport Infrastructure, Energy and Water. This is in addition to investors, the private sector and development partners; national and regional financial institutions, national experts, stakeholders and partners; World Bank, EIB, AfDB, EU, UN agencies; Agencies for investment promotion in Africa; Regional Economic Communities (RECs), National, regional and global weather and climate centres such as AGRHYMET and UK Met Office, African specialized institutions; research institutions and universities. The post summit report will be made available electronically to all participants.

Format: ACRIS IV will be held over two days with participants having the option to take part in any industry specific sector spanning the two days. The Summit features:

DRAFT AGENDA Involvement of the Private Sector ACRIS IV will be attended by the trinity of international organisations, government officials and the private sector.

All the 55 African countries are being contacted prior to the summit with a view to prepare and bring their Climate-Resilient-ready-projects with them. These projects would be uploaded to www.grvglobal.com The private sector will have the chance to meet up with not only the international organisations but also with government officials to discuss their involvement in realising such projects. The private sector entities will benefit from giving their opinions to these policy makers representing their countries, hopefully influencing their planned policies and their decision-making processes, and this may offer the private sector the chance to put a foot in the door to their planned resilient projects.

With the increased public awareness of climate change issues, pension funds and international institutional investors want to be seen investing in corporates that are involved in climate resilient projects. The private sector corporations need to be actively seen within circles such as ACRIS IV. Funding from the World Bank, and the likes, would only be used for funding projects that are being built by reputable climate-minded entities.

• Plenary sessions to address major issues and opportunities • Presentations ACRIS IV will be a platform for African states to show their plans of ‘ClimateReady’ and “Investment Ready” Projects. Available projects will be published online and promoted before the summit.

• Bilateral meetings between the public and private sector • Roundtable pre-scheduled one-to-one meetings • Throughout the two day summit there will be one-to-one meetings between African ministers, government officials and the private sector, financial institutions, development partners and international organisations.

• Networking opportunities at coffee breaks, lunch times and Gala dinner

ACRIS IV will cover areas such as Agriculture, Water, Energy and Infrastructure. It will bring together project developers, Investors such as; Multinational Development Banks, National Development Banks, Green Investment Banks, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Insurance companies, Consultancies, Solar Energy Companies (Solar Panels Manufacturers), Solar Thermal / Concentrated Solar Power(CSP) Companies, Wind Energy – big turbine manufacturers, Geothermal companies, Infrastructure companies, EPCM Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Management Companies, Construction - Multinational professional services, etc.

Exhibition: Exhibition: In parallel to the meetings, industrialists, developers in the fields of technology, R& and development actors will be invited to showcase their companies and organizations, equipment, materials, services, innovation related to industries and services, new knowledge and other practices. The exhibition will enrich the discussions at meetings by helping to inform policy makers and developers on the various possibilities to increase investments in the relative sector.

Challenges of preparing infrastructure for a changing climate

THEMATIC SESSIONS • Increasing the adaptive capacity in infrastructure companies and others (e.g. investors) to enable robust and cost effective climate change adaptation decisions to be made.

• Improving the way investment decisions incorporate the impacts of climate change.

• Improving access by industry to specific climate information and research through better information sharing, disclosure of risk and evidence.

• Realising the potential economic opportunities that adapting national infrastructure to climate change presents.

• Setting out the challenge of adapting to climate change in economic regulatory models.

• Monitoring progress in adapting national infrastructure to climate change.

• The role of the planning system for nationally and regionally significant infrastructure in guiding applicants to the impacts of climate change.

• Reducing the risk that climate change impacts present to infrastructure interdependencies

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DRAFT AGENDA

I. Agriculture & Food Security and Water

IV. Transport Infrastructure

AFRI–RES services

• Water supply, treatment and infrastructure

• Roads

• Climate smart agriculture

• Railways

• Wastewater collection, treatment and disposal

• Ports

• Food security, resources, conservation and pollution control

A central function of AFRI–RES will be to facilitate interaction between policymakers, financiers, project developers, and scientific and engineering experts, to develop and mainstream new practices that deliver climate resilient infrastructure in Africa.

Climate resilient investments

• Farming technologies II. Landscape restoration and sustainable natural resource management • Environmental and spatial planning across economic sectors • Landscape restoration techniques such as agroforestry and silvo-pastoralism • Integrated landscape management approaches managing land, water and coastal resources Conservation area management • • Coastal erosion control • Large-scale erosion control programs (ex: fighting erosion in Humbo Mountain - Ethiopia) • Natural regeneration - Integrating trees in pastures • Implementing effective programs for sound natural resource management • Adopting initiatives like Forest Carbon Partnership Facility and the Biocarbon Fund Initiatives • Scaling up knowledge sharing, investments and coalition building III. Energy • Renewable Energies and storage

New investments can be climate resilient by ensuring that an asset is located, designed, built and operated with the current and future climate in mind. Existing infrastructure can be climate resilient by ensuring that maintenance regimes incorporate resilience to the impacts of climate change over an asset’s lifetime.

African Climate Resilient Investment Facility (AFRI-RES) One of the main focuses of ACRIS IV would the African Climate Resilient Investment Facility, AFRI–RES. This is an Africa-based networked centre of technical competence and excellence, whose overall objective is to strengthen the capacity of African institutions (including national Governments, river basin organizations, regional economic communities and power pools, among others), as well as the private sector (project developers and financiers), to plan, design and implement infrastructure investments that are resilient to climate variability and change in selected sectors, based on an operational framework and value proposition. It is hosted in the African Climate Policy Centre of the ECA and a joint initiative of the ECA, the AfDB, the AUC, the World Bank and the Nordic Development Fund.

The Leadership Group of AFRI-RES provides strategic direction to support African priorities based on demand from Member States in areas such as strategic studies, analyses, capacity strengthening and advocacy to support policies for implementation of climate resilient infrastructure in Africa.

• Energy Efficiencies • Off grid networks

Operational framework of AFRI–RES

• Electricity Transmission and Distribution

AFRI–RES will provide two types of support classified into two main clusters: upstream support in the form of knowledge, guidelines and good practices to inform sector and project planning; and downstream technical support at the project design and preparation stages.

• Fuel Processing & Storage

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Importance of AFRI-RES for Africa

• The infrastructure projects identified by PIDA require investments in the order of US$ 360 billion by 2040, with approximately US$ 70 billion needed by 2020.

The World Bank’s 2010 Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic Report estimates that the cost of meeting Africa’s infrastructure deficit is around US$ 93 billion per year (of which about US$30 billion is required for maintenance), with an optimistic investment gap of US$ 31 billion per year. Climate-proofing these substantial investments is essential, as Africa stands to be impacted the most from the adverse effects of climate change.

Most of the investments will support the construction of long-lived infrastructure (e.g. dams, power stations, irrigation canals and transport corridors) which may be vulnerable to changes in climatic patterns. The reports of the joint World Bank and Economic Commission for

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Africa (ECA) studies on Enhancing the Climate Resilience of Africa’s Infrastructure found that: Failure to integrate climate change in the planning and design of power and water infrastructure could entail, in the driest climate scenarios, losses of hydropower revenues of between 5 and 60 per cent (depending on the basin) and increases in consumer expenditure for energy up to three times the corresponding baseline values. In the wettest climate scenarios, business-as-usual infrastructure development could lead to foregone revenues in the range of 15–130 per cent of the baseline. In irrigation, the largest loss in revenue is in the 10–20 per cent range for most basins.

In wet scenarios, the largest foregone gains are in the range of 1–4 per cent, except for the Volta Basin, where they are estimated to be one order of magnitude higher (10 times the baseline level). In the transport sector, climate change is likely to lead to a shortening of

roads’ rehabilitation life cycles, which may entail steep increases in maintenance and periodic rehabilitation costs. In the worst climate scenarios, stress imposed on the roads by precipitation can lead to rehabilitation costs 10 times higher (compared to historical climate conditions); stress imposed by flooding can lead to a 17-fold increase. It is therefore clear that the trillions of dollars needed to close Africa’s huge infrastructure gap are at risk from climate change and variability and need safeguarding. In this regard, ECA (through its African Climate Policy Centre), the African Union Commission, the World Bank and the African Development Bank (AfDB) have teamed up and launched the Africa Climate Resilient Investment Facility (AFRI–RES). The Facility is now operational, with initial seed funding from the Nordic Development Fund (NDF). The amount of the initial seed funding from the Nordic Development Fund is EUR 5 million via a trust fund with the World Bank. The amount to be implemented by the ECA and AUC from this fund is still to be negotiated and agreed with the World Bank and NDF through a single project agreement with the World Bank. Additional resource mobilisation is needed from donors such as France (AFD), Germany (BMZ), NDF, Italy, Netherlands, European Investment Bank, among others.

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Operational structure of AFRI–RES

Commercial Opportunities

AFRI-RES will be implemented under four components:

• Potential business opportunities and risks involved in adapting to anticipated changes in the global climate.

Four key sectors:

• Project level technical assistance. World Bank • Training, dissemination, advocacy and outreach. ECA + AUC

• Financial services

Owners and operators of national infrastructure have an important role to play in adapting national infrastructure by:

• Embedding adaptation throughout their organisation and the organisation’s decision making.

• Integrating adaptation into the maintenance regimes of existing infrastructure.

• Guidelines, standards and good practice notes. World Bank + AfDB

• Infrastructure and construction

• Climate Knowledge Portal. ECA

• Agriculture and life sciences

While the ECA/AUC and the World Bank provide the lead for implementation of the various components, it is expected that all partners will contribute to the delivery of all the components.

• Adapting infrastructure to climate change impacts presents opportunities if early action is taken and expertise developed. This includes new skills and technologies as well as additional adaptation capacity to enable infrastructure to be adapted such as new engineering practices or IT-based technology.

• Considering how operational procedures might be affected.

• Integrating climate resilience in all PIDA projects

Investors

Economic Regulators

• Reporting on the economics of climate resilient infrastructure in Africa

Investors in infrastructure include:

• Establishing and implementing regional framework for climate resilient infrastructure

• Insurance Companies

• Using tools and methods for climate resilient infrastructure for decision makers and practitioners

• Investment /Development Banks

The economic regulators are well-placed to facilitate adaptation action through existing mandates, in particular the protection of short and long-term customer interest and security of supply. They are also equipped with the appropriate levers - incentives, penalties, standards and regular pricing controls - to deliver these mandates and incentivise adaptation. There is a need to avoid storing up problems for future generations simply by aiming for the lowest bills possible today. Risk based decision making is required to balance both long-term and short-term challenges. Climate change can also present opportunities for regulators and the organisations that they are responsible for. For example, in the water sector, the impacts of climate change can drive innovation in the development of low carbon technology and new approaches to catchment management.

Panel discussion points under the AFRI-RES framework may include:

• Strengthening the capacity of African institutions and policy makers to plan, design, and implement infrastructure investments that are resilient to climate variability and change • Building a compendium of climate resilient infrastructure good practice in Africa • Designing guidelines and standards for climate resilient infrastructure in Africa • Building a knowledge base of existing capacity needs, data, information and services on implementing climate resilient infrastructure in Africa

• Professional services and consulting

• Hedge funds • Sovereign wealth funds • Public and Private Pension Funds.

Infrastructure Owners & Operators

Although infrastructure is often owned and operated by the same organisation, this is not always the case both owner and operator will be affected by the impacts of climate change, which may: • Have a direct impact on the value of an asset.

• Pose a risk to service disruption from weather, affect the ability to meet customers’ needs and, where these exist, increase the chance of service related fines.

• Lead to higher operating costs, reduced revenues or incur costs for the restoration of services or compensation for service disruption and/or inefficiencies.

• Pose a risk to an owner’s and/or operator’s reputation and their ability to attract future investment or contracts.

• Considering how the impacts of climate change may affect new infrastructure and implementing adaptation measures as necessary.

• Considering how their supply chains might be affected.

• Considering whether their workforce have the right skills and working practices to adapt.

Insurers & Re-insurers

The insurance sector has a significant stake in timely adaptation of national infrastructure. Increased damage or interruption to insured infrastructure assets could have major cost implications for the insurance industry and affect future premiums.

They should focus on the key issues of climate and weather risks, including storms, floods and other extreme; they

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also should support research and development of new risk models and applications. Their expertise on climate issues should be a fundamental part of their risk management and investment policy. This includes advising underwriters and clients on natural catastrophe reinsurance and being involved in research and development projects, to quantify the economic impacts of climate change. Insurers have a role in: • Working with clients to consider current and future climate resilience as a way of reducing their exposure to weather events.

• Investing in, and developing, context specific climate information to help them model climate risk and, where appropriate, share the information with investors, owners and operators to enable further planning and action. Developing systems which monitor the weather and anticipate potential incidents with expected rainfall, wind speeds and gust levels tracked daily.

• Encouraging greater disclosure of climate risks and responses by companies to increase understanding and catalyse adaptation action by both insurer and investor in infrastructure.

• As investors in their own right, ensuring their own investment portfolios factor in climate resilience.

Local Authorities and/or Local Enterprise Partnerships

Adapting national infrastructure which can be replicated at the sub-regional and local level by local authorities, both have a potential role in encouraging and coordinating action to adapt infrastructure at the sub-national level to boost local resilience to climate change, minimise economic risk and maximise any economic opportunities. Other potential benefits could be: • Facilitating localised cross-sector adaptation initiatives leading to more targeted adaptation action.

• Action locally may also lead to more action nationally and regionally.

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Engineering Profession

Engineers and engineering companies have an important role to play in delivering well-adapted national infrastructure. Climate change presents engineers with a wide range of challenges, such as how: • Existing infrastructure may need to change in order to function in a more challenging future climate.

• New infrastructure can be designed and built to function under different temperature and rainfall patterns.

• Engineering solutions to increase the climate resilience of road infrastructure engineers are considering the impacts of climate change on required specifications for the road network: • New road surface specifications, to adapt to higher temperatures.

• New drainage standards for new works and renewals to improve drainage allowing for increases in rainfall intensity of 20-30%.

• The engineering profession has a role in: • Looking for engineering solutions to limit the consequences of failure from severe weather.

• Developing new ways of designing and building infrastructure e.g. to plan, design and monitor infrastructure at national and local levels to deliver climate resilience at least cost.

• Developing new engineering design practices to increase the resilience of infrastructure assets and networks.

• Developing new skills and expertise in adapting infrastructure to create marketable engineering skills and solutions.

Research Community

The research community can play an important role in advancing knowledge on the climate change risks to infrastructure. It should focus on nationally-funded research on the challenges of environment change and include an infrastructure theme. It is important that the research community, policy makers and the private sector work together to ensure that these research projects can improve the knowledge on climate risk, turning this into practical action on adapting infrastructure.

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Actors alongside Governments, including:

• Investors in infrastructure, e.g. infrastructure investment funds and pension funds.

• Infrastructure owners, e.g. owners of ports and energy infrastructure.

• Infrastructure operators, e.g. organisations that operate airports and those that are contracted to build new infrastructure and run maintenance contracts.

• Economic regulators.

• Professional bodies such as engineering consultancies Possible adaptation measures include:

• Ensuring investment is resilient to potential increases in extreme weather events such as storms, floods and heat waves as well as extreme cold weather.

• Ensuring investment decisions take account of changing patterns of consumer demand as a result of climate change.

• Building in flexibility so infrastructure assets can be modified in the future without incurring excessive cost.

• Ensuring that infrastructure organisations and professionals have the right skills and capacity to implement adaptation measures.

The result will be a more resilient and robust infrastructure network able to cope with projected climate impacts e.g. increased flexibility to cope with uncertainty without massive failure and economic cost.

Achieving more climate resilient infrastructure requires the impacts of climate change to be a key consideration in the way that significant pieces of infrastructure in the energy, Transport Infrastructure and water sectors are planned and commissioned, designed, built and maintained. This includes the design of roads, railways and power lines and management of the supply/ demand balance through water infrastructure.

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The risks of failed or inefficient infrastructure from climate change

• Infrastructure operators risk economic losses from poorly adapted assets - loss of revenue, damaged or inefficient assets.

• Users (other infrastructure sectors, the wider economy and domestic users) are exposed to risks of service failure and dangers.

• Investors bear investment risks from economic losses of infrastructure operators and from other investments reliant on infrastructure.

• Insurers bear increased risks/losses (both insurance and re-insurance industry) as potential losses (e.g. for infrastructure owners) are reduced through insurance.

• Governments may act as a risk bearer, stepping in to assist with losses suffered. Modelling by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has suggested that each dollar spent on climate change adaptation delivers four times its value in terms of potential damage avoided.

Potential Opportunities

In a low carbon, climate resilient world, investment in climate resilient infrastructure will help enhance the attractiveness of Africa for inward investment, benefitting the member countries, economies, businesses, users and governments.

And a stable long-term policy framework for climate change mitigation and adaptation can set the region apart from others left more vulnerable to climate-related risks.

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FEATURED SPEAKERS

Conference Chair: MR. JAMAL SAGHIR Former Director and Senior Regional Advisor Africa, The World Bank

Hon. Claver GATETE Minister of Infrastructure, Rwanda

Mr. Paul Noumba Um Country Director, South Africa, The World Bank Group

Mr. Olivier COLAS Head of Business Development, BlueSolutions (Groupe Bolloré)

Philippe Dongier Managing Director Government Affairs & Policy, GE Africa

Hon. Mary Goretti KITUTU State Minister for Water and Environment, Uganda

Dr. Daniel SCHROTH Adviser to the Vice President, Power, Energy, Climate Change and Green Growth, African Development Bank (AfDB)

Mr. Kerry ADLER President & CEO, SkyPower Global

Mrs. Philippa CHARLTON Chief Marketing Officer, Averda

Papa Abdoulaye SECK Minister of Agriculture and Rural Equipment, Senegal

Hon. Sileshi BEKELE Minister of Water Irrigation and Electricity, Ethiopia

Mr. Hasaba Al-Nabi MUSSA Minister of Agriculture, Sudan

Hon. Jeff RADEBE Minister of Energy, South Africa

Hon. Aziz REBBAH Minister of Energy, Mining, Water and Environment, Kingdom of Morocco

Mr. Eric MOLALE Minister Minerals Resources, Green Technology and Energy Security, Botswana

H.E. Josefa Leonel Correia SACKO Commissioner of Rural Economy & Agriculture, African Union Commission (AUC)

Mr. Tshekedi KHAMA Minister of Environment Natural Resources Conservation and Tourism, Botswana

Mr. Rachid BENMESSAOUD Country Director for Nigeria and Coordinating Director for West Africa Regional Integration Program, The World Bank Group

Dr. Uwe SEEBACHER (MBA) Global Director Marketing and Communication, Pumps, ANDRITZ

Dr Kapil Kapoor Director General, Southern Africa Regional Development and Business Delivery Office, African Development Bank (AfDB)

Mr. Pasi Sakari HELLMAN Managing Director, Nordic Development Fund (NDF)

Dr. Thomas Edward DOWNING CEO, Global Climate Adaptation Partnership (GCAP) Mrs. Jane AFRANE Regional Head, Africa Regional Network, World Green Building Council

Mr. Vladimir STENEK Senior Climate Change Specialist, International Finance Corporation (IFC) DR ELHAM IBRAHIM Vice Chair for Africa, World Energy Council

Dr. Henning Wuester Director of ICAT initiative for Climate Action Transparency, IRENA

Ms. Hanae RHARNIT International Development & Cooperation Project Manager, Masen

Mr. Luciano CANALE Senior Hydropower Specialist, The World Bank Group

Dr. Jacques MOULOT Chief Energy Specialist, African Development Bank (AfDB)

Mr. Csaba MATRON Director Global Marketing & Sales Small Hydro, Voith Hydro Holding GmbH & Co. KG Mr. Hector IBARRA CEO, Global Parametrics

Dr. Gregory CHARACKLIS Professor, University of North Carolina

Mr. Daniel TASENDE Supply Planning Manager, UTE (Usinas y Transmisiones Eléctricas)

Mr. Yuan Yong LONG Vice President, Swiss Re Corporate Solutions Ltd

Mr. Khalid BENHAMOU CEO, Sahara Wind

Hon. Mrs. Jean KAPATA Minister of Land, Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, Zambia

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“Interesting sessions, diverse group of partners and presenters and well organised, including the logistic aspects. Thank you for everything. The networking session was fantastic.”

Leah Wanambwa Naess – African Union Commission (AUC) “Nice presentations, the B2B meetings were very useful and interesting.”

Hugo Arceo – Air Tractor Europe, S.L. “The diversity and depth of participants were great; contributions have been very informative, and the opportunities for roundtables and networking beneficial to capacity building and developing partnership in the area of climate resilient infrastructure. Thank you to the organisers, sponsors, and supporting partners and participants.”

Nicole Perkins – Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI)

”This summit has been well organised and of a high level.”

Kouassi Joseph N’Guessan – African Development Bank (AfDB) “It exceeded my expectations, the participation of high level governments helped a lot to explore more options which will be more productive and easily implemented on the ground.”

Mustafa Soliman – Environmental General Authority; Libya “A summit well organised. The matchmaking session was excellent and very educative and interactive.”

Andriana Naa Kwakor Nelson – Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Ghana “GRV Global continues to improve itself in terms of organisation.” Munyaradzi Munodawafa – Zambezi River Authority

TESTIMONIALS “It was the first time for me, it was really helpful to knowledge share and contact exchange.

Hope it will help my institution to create new relationships with people I met at the summit.”

Ahmadou Sebory Toure – Ministry of Environment, Waters & Forestry – Environment Safeguard Fund; Guinea “The third Summit on Africa Climate Resilient Infrastructure was well organised. The panel of speakers were knowledgeable, and their input will have a huge impact on Africa’s efforts to deal with the negative impacts of climate change.”

Takudza Makwangudze – Zimbabwe National Water Authority “ACRIS III was an excellent and very valued programme that enhanced enormous benefit to my institution. It has also provided tremendous benefit for sharing experiences.”

Tijani Bojang – Department of Water Resources; The Gambia “Very good event; good quality of guests, topics well chosen, good balance between private and public concerns.” Cyrille Jabbour– Averda “The conference brought together key players in the sector. The panel session and topics were well planned and summarised well.”

Jane Afrane – World Green Building Council “It was a very nicely drafted event and we are very glad to be a part of it. The sessions were very well thought out and were comprehensively executed. Last, but not least, the organising team was just great and made all the difference.”

Shanesh Joshi – Tata Projects Ltd

“Themes; very interesting. Panellists; very good Panel Chairs and enriching discussions.

Organisation; perfect. Hotel; reception was very good, great restaurant and good transport.”

Kone Issa Fahiri – Environment & Sustainable Development Agency; Mali “The Summit was well thought out and having a mix of private and public-sector players under one roof was genius.”

Ntare Bright – FONERWA, Rwanda’s Green Fund “ACRIS III was well organised with very interesting topics. The ‘panel set-up’ of the summit was interactive and very informative.”

Justus Joseph Kabyemera – African Development Bank (AfDB) “I am grateful to be here. A very effective and useful platform to meet H.E. Rabbah and delegation of various countries. It was a very good opportunity to develop and planning for Africa climate infrastructure and green energy.

We hope to have effective results from the 1-2-1 meetings.”

Jayant Patidar – Shakti Pumps (India) Ltd. “Highly informative and thorough panel discussions on the latest developments regarding climate resilience initiatives i.e. policies and best practice. This is an excellent platform for networking and effective exchange of information and ideas. As is – keep it up and as simple as it is – it’s very effective in its objectives and achieving intended outcomes.”

Evans Kaseke – Zambezi Watercourse Commission

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