Africa attracted about five percent of development funding and less than four percent of philanthropy funding to fight air pollution between 2015 – 2020 according to the 2021 report.
Most sub-Saharan African countries are highly in debt. Alice Kaudia, the former Environment Secretary at the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources in Kenya says Africa needs to rethink their strategies to ensure funding flows to ensure air pollution monitoring and prevention.
The 2022 international debt crisis report shows that sub-Saharan Africa’s debt rose from $665 Billion in 2019 to 702B. Jean-Paul Adam, the director for Technology, Climate Change, and Natural Resources at the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), says it costs African countries about five to six times more to borrow money for investment in a green recovery.
With most of the funding is in the form of loans, how can governments fund monitoring and curbing air pollution without getting their nations deeper into debt?