Light up and Power Africa: Energy and Climate Change

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The 2016 Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank will take place from Monday, May 23 to Friday, May 27, 2016 at the Mulungushi International Conference Centre in Lusaka, Zambia.

The 2016 Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank will take place from Monday, May 23 to Friday, May 27, 2016 at the Mulungushi International Conference Centre in Lusaka, Zambia.

The theme of this year’s meetings is โ€œEnergy and Climate Changeโ€, and draws on one of the Bank’s โ€œHigh 5โ€ priority areas, namely to โ€œvโ€. It also reflects the Bank’s New Deal on Energy and the key resolutions from the recent UN climate talks (COP21) on global warming.

The 2016 Annual Meetings theme is aligned with two of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): SDG 7 to โ€œensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for allโ€ and SDG 13 to โ€œtake urgent action to combat climate change and its impactsโ€.

The Bank’s Annual Meetings are its largest annual event, and its biggest window on the world. They bring together some 5,000 delegates and participants, and feature some 40 official events in addition to the Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors, which constitutes the core purpose of the Meetings.

The Bank’s Governors are the Finance, Trade or Development Ministers from its 54 Regional and 26 Non-Regional Member Countries). The Meetings represent the definitive forum for representatives of Government, business, civil society and media โ€“ from Africa and beyond โ€“ to debate the social and economic development of the continent.

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Juergen T Steinmetz

Juergen Thomas Steinmetz has continuously worked in the travel and tourism industry since he was a teenager in Germany (1977).
He founded eTurboNews in 1999 as the first online newsletter for the global travel tourism industry.

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