The Quebec government will grant nearly $11 million to support 15 projects in nine French-speaking countries vulnerable to climate change and an additional $10 million to “promote international climate cooperation”.
The Minister of the Environment, Benoit Charette, will take advantage of his platform at the international conference “Adaptation Futures” on adaptation to climate change, which begins Tuesday at the Palais des congrès de Montréal, to make the announcement.
Quebec “thus reaffirms its commitment to supporting the initiatives of French-speaking countries in Africa and the Antilles vulnerable to climate change,” we can read in a press release published by the government.
These projects, which will total $11 million, will be carried out in nine countries, namely Benin, Burundi, Guinea, Haiti, Mali, Morocco, Senegal, Togo and Tunisia, “at the end of the fourth call of projects of the International Climate Cooperation Program (ICCP)”.
They will have to “promote the adaptation of the agricultural environment to climate change”, support the transition to green energies and “increase the resilience of populations in the face of water shortages and restore ecosystems sensitive to climatic upheavals”.
“We are leveraging Quebec know-how to support French-speaking countries and communities that need it most, while contributing to the achievement of international climate objectives,” Minister Charette said in a press release.
Quebec also announced a new contribution of $10 million to the Adaptation Fund (AF) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
This amount represents Quebec’s fourth contribution to this fund, bringing its total commitment to $33 million.