Advancing Green: Resource-rich Africa

And who's lately been the biggest player in helping many African countries develop, not the U.S. or other so called Western powers, they do the opposite as shown over the decades, it's China making the investments and bringing in the needed technology and skills as well as training!

Resource-rich Africa well placed to transition to ‘green economy’ – UN official

28 March 2011 – Africa is well poised to take advantage of a host of opportunities on the continent for building a ‘green economy,’ one that generates decent jobs in an environmentally sustainable way, a senior United Nations official said today.

“This continent is in many ways the envy of the 21st century world,” Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), told African ministers of finance, planning and economic development gathered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

“Africa is rich in the kinds of natural resources that in many parts of the world have been over-exploited and diminished by centuries of unsustainable development,” he stated. {continued}