Ivory Coast

Lack of rain, heat stress Ivory Coast cocoa farmers

Farmers in the majority of Ivory Coast's cocoa growing regions said on Monday they were concerned about the absence of appropriate rains and the heat, which could weigh on the development of the OctobertoMarch primary crop. The world's top cocoa producer is in its dry season which runs from mid-November to March, when downpours are limited. Farmers in practically all regions other than the western among Soubre, where rainfall was well above average, and Abgoville in the south, where rains were a little second-rate, stated the weather could hurt little pods that will be harvested in February and March. Farmers

Climate Change

World Bank ventures into debt swaps with Ivory Coast education deal

Ivory Coast to establish $500 mln green financing fund

Ivory Coast will develop a $500. million green financing fund to support sustainable development. efforts, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) stated in a. statement. Africa's 54 countries have borne the force of climate. change, despite releasing far less contaminating emissions than the. industrialised world. They receive just 1% of annual global. climate finance. Ivory Coast's new center will be developed under the. African Green Banks Effort, a platform working to create a. $ 1.5 billion community of green investment facilities by 2030 on. the continent. The facility will be capitalised by public sources such as. the Ivory Coast's government, the

Mineral Resources

Endeavour Mining targets 200,000 oz/year of gold from Ivory Coast mine

Cocoa traceability rates stop working to improve as EU deforestation law looms

The volume of cocoa in Ivory Coast and Ghana that can be completely traced did not increase last year, a major UNbacked report has discovered, raising concerns about how the world's leading 2 cocoa growers will comply with a. brand-new EU law prohibiting the import of products connected to. logging. The brand-new law next year will need importers of commodities. and associated items to show their items weren't grown on. deforested land by, amongst other procedures, tracing their supply. chains down to the plot where their raw materials were grown. The report, released by the Cocoa and Forests Initiative. (

Climate Change

Environment modification costs Africa approximately 5% of GDP, UN environment head states

The effect of global warming is costing African nations approximately 5% of their financial output, the United Nations environment chief said on Thursday, calling for more financial investments to help adjust to climate modification. The 54-nation continent, which has borne the force of climate modification regardless of launching far less contaminating emissions than the industrialised world, gets simply 1% of annual international environment financing. The climate crisis is an economic sinkhole, drawing the momentum out of financial growth, Simon Stiell, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC), informed a conference of African ministers of environment

African governments looking to police top for higher environment financing share