
Jean-Paul Adam
@adamjeanpaul
Director, Policy, Monitoring and Advocacy in the Office of the Special Adviser on Africa to the UNSG
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http://un.org/osaa/ 17-03-2013 10:19:54
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Africa’s vulnerability to COVID19 /Climate Change is exacerbated by debt. Debt should be developmental. Climate swaps can help us turn debt into development. Great interactions at #GRASFI2020. Alicia Bárcena Uli Volz Shamshad Akhtar Stephany Griffith-Jones


#Africa should focus on #BuildingBackBetter in a green way in aftermath of #COVID19. ECA working on number of policy initiatives showing interconnectedness of green recovery & #ClimateChange. #EnergyAccess #NatureBasedSolutions #Resilience #DebtSwaps Jean-Paul Adam to Africa Group


Thanks to Uli Volz Alicia Bárcena Shamshad Akhtar Stephany Griffith-Jones Jean-Paul Adam SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung (alt/old) Global Research Alliance for Sustainable Finance and Romina Picolotti for a great discussion this morning on climate action in the time of debt distress.


#Africa doit se concentrer sur #BuildingBackBetter écologiquemt post #COVID19. La CEA travaille sur certaines initiatives pol. montrant l'interdépendance de la relance verte & #ClimateChange. #EnergyAccess #NatureBasedSolutions #Resilience #DebtSwaps Jean-Paul Adam au Gpe Afrique



.Dr. Vera Songwe ECA met w Koen Doens DG European Commission DEVCO @europeaid and discussed how LSF and #repofacility can improve the #costoffinancing for emerging market economies by reducing their high cost of borrowing from capital markets. PIMCO Debt #ffd United Nations


@idepofficial is organizing with ECA online training on Rebuilding a #BlueEconomy post #COVID19 New challenges, recovery measures and resilience,#SDGs, #BuildBackBetter Apply here:unidep.org/?apply ECA, ECA SRO-CA ECA SRO-EA ECA SRO-SA Jean-Paul Adam


#SDGMoment with 5 United Nations women leaders - Regional perspectives on #BuildingBackBetter, #poverty & inequality, #Genderequality & #ClimateChange #Africa #Asia #Pacific #ArabRegion #Europe #LatinAmerica & #Carib Dr. Vera Songwe Rola Dashti Armida Alisjahbana Olga Algayerova Alicia Bárcena


#African leaders must champion efforts to curb #illicitfinancialflows frm continent;devote resources to build capacity of their legal institutions & orgs in a coordinated way to effectively curb #IFFs.Stopping IFFs must start with us- Dr. Vera Songwe at launch of UN Trade and Development's #EDAR2020


#Africa needs a #liquidity & sustainability facility to incentivize #privatesector #debt investment, reduce sovereign borrowing costs and improve market access for emerging markets & vulnerable sovereigns - Dr. Vera Songwe #Buildfoward #G20 #SDGs #IMF #WorldBank #IIF #PIMCO



#Africa’s GDP was forecast to grow from 2.4% in 2019 to 3.2% in 2020. With #COVID19, it could fall sharply to between -2.1% to -5.1% in 2020, resulting in the first recession in 25 years' -Dr. Vera Songwe at the Princeton University #AfricaSummit Africa Summit at Princeton



Congratulations on winning the #NobelPeacePrize2020 to Cindy McCain and friend David and all World Food Programme WFP Ethiopia colleagues United Nations #leavingnoonebehind ECA The Nobel Prize




At the African Youth SDGs Summit, I engaged with young people on how we can work together to boost progress towards the #GlobalGoals in Africa Youth-led initiatives are key, and we MUST support them Join our upcoming exchange with #AfricanYouth to find out how: bit.ly/3qxnByi


Today's the day! Tune in at 10 AM ET for the our discussion on #Africa's priorities for #COP28. Don't miss expert insights from Jennifer J. Sara, Jake Levine, Jean-Paul Adam, @NubianCounsel, Landon Derentz & more. Register now: bit.ly/3FVqDjU #AfricasTimeHasCome
