UN General Assembly
2023

Development is a basic necessity for every society; it must happen one way or another. There should be no doubt about that. Annually. 30 million young people on our continent need jobs and many more need food. Half of our continent is in the dark, without access to electricity in 2023. while hundreds of millions can only cook using biomass, because they have no electricity. That is why the commitment of African nations in the Nairobi Declaration is both radical and transformative. Development, in our opinion, is a fundamental imperative and green growth is the only sustainable way to achieve it. From our standpoint, there is no need to be trapped in a false choice; sustainable development is robust climate action and climate action is development.