Africa needs money to fight climate change, but what’s it being spent on?

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A debate has raged this last week on how Africa isn’t getting the international money promised to address climate change. PHOTO | POOL

A debate has raged this last week on how Africa isn’t getting the international money promised to address climate change. But the huge matter drawing barely a comment is what climate funds are being spent on.

From 2014 until this year, 73 per cent of the funds invested in climate change in sub-Saharan Africa went into solar energy.

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