Africa: Climate Conversations - Time for Business to Take the Plunge On Climate Finance?

13 February 2013

At the U.N. climate talks in Doha late last year, Britain's minister of state for energy and climate change told journalists the UK government is "leading the way" in mobilising private-sector finance for efforts to tackle climate change in developing countries.

As an example, Greg Barker cited a green energy trade mission to East Africa last October to look at how British companies could help the region develop renewable energy sources and create new markets for their exports.

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