October 2022: Gabon: Africa Needs More Money to Deal With a Hotter Planet

Gabon is in Central Africa, one of the few places in the world that
absorbs more carbon than it emits. One month to COP27, in Egypt, we
speak to the country’s ambassador to the UN, Michel Xavier Biang.
Africa, he says, needs outside financing to adapt to the hot earth,
which is 0.4 degrees from the "at least" 1.5 degrees target agreed
in the Paris climate pact. In this episode, we are also joined by
Abdoulaye Ndiaye, an economics professor at New York University.
Ndiaye wants African leaders to raise more private and multilateral
capital without policy strings. Some of the money would have to
come from the $100 billion annual fund agreed in Copenhagen and
promised to developing countries by richer ones. But observers say
the monies are not coming in. Ambassador Biang tells us what
African diplomats hope to get from COP27 and he calls for dialog to
end the war in Ukraine, despite Putin’s belligerence.