Addis Ababa, March 1st, 2019: The Fourth Africa Climate Resilient Investment Summit ACRIS IV under the theme Africa: Towards A Climate Resilient Future will be held in Johannesburg, South Africa from 6th – 7th March 2019.The two days program will be dealing with investments for climate resilience in the sectors of Agriculture, Water, Energy, and Sustainable Development.

The Africa Climate Resilience Investment Summit (ACRIS IV) is in its fourth year, following the highly successful ACRIS III, that was held in Marrakech, Kingdom of Morocco.

ACRIS IV will be held in partnership with the African Union Commission, The World Bank, Nordic Fund and United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA).

The overall objective of ACRIS IV is to strengthen the capacity of African institutions (including national governments, river basin organisations, regional economic communities, power pools and others) together with the private sector to plan, design and implement investment in the sectors of Energy, Water, Agribusiness and Transport Infrastructure, so as to increase their resilience to climate change. The Afri-Res (Africa Climate Resilient Investment Facility) will be discussed during ACRIS IV.

ACRIS IV will assist governments, planners, private developers in Africa to integrate climate resilience in project planning and design, whilst also introducing international technology and service providers that can deliver on the announced projects.

Private discussions of projects and investment opportunities, as well as one to one business to business and business to government roundtable meetings to initiate these collaborations will be organised during the summit.

For further information:

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Ms. Antoinette Orr, GRV Global

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Ms. Zandile Portia Ratshitanga, The World bank

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Mr. Molalet Tsedeke; Directorate of Information and Communication. African Union Commission

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Mr. Glen Fitzpatrick, GRV Global

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