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Climate change research gulps $1.5trn in 20 years

A Research fellow at Science and Technology Policy Research Institute (STEPPRI) of the Center for Science and Industrial Research (CSIR), Dr. Portia Williams, has said that over $1.5 trillion has been pumped into climate change research in Africa.

Williams, who disclosed this during a two-day summit for Young African Leaders (YAL) held in Accra, Ghana, said that a study done on funding flows for climate change research on Africa showed that between 1990 and 2020, about $1.51 trillion of research grants from 521 organisations around the world have been invested in climate change.

 

She, however, noted that not more than 3.8 per cent of the global funding for climate-change research was spent on African topics – an inadequate figure given Africa’s share of the world population and vulnerability to climate change.

 

She also pointed out that institutions based in Europe and North America received 78 per cent of funding for climate research on Africa, while African institutions received only 14.5 per cent of the funds.

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