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The World Bank Group is launching a Call for Innovation under the West Africa Coastal Areas Management Program (WACA), with the deadline of 27 March 2020.

Today, at the Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund, Finance Ministers from more than twenty countries launched a new coalition aimed at driving stronger collective action on climate change and its impacts. The newly formed Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action endorsed a set of six common principles, known as the “Helsinki Principles,” that promote national climate action, especially through fiscal policy and the use of public finance.

The Government of Burkina Faso, the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) will co-organize a regional capacity development workshop under the theme of Financing Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) implementation in the Energy Sector in Burkina Faso on 26-28 June 2018.