支持保护自然、适应气候和公平能源转型的美国–非洲合作关系
简报
白宫
华盛顿特区
2022年12月13日
在12月13日至15日在华盛顿举行的美国-非洲领导人峰会（U.S.-African Leaders Summit）期间，美国重申并扩大了与非洲国家政府、民营行业、公民社会以及慈善机构的持久伙伴关系，表明了非洲政府、机构和人民将在应对我们全球面临的时代最大挑战之一——气候变化——中发挥的关键作用。许多最易受气候变化影响的国家位于非洲，峰会突出展示的这些合作关系将对增强其复原力至关重要。
在2022年11月举行的联合国气候大会（COP27）上，拜登总统宣布美国计划提供1.5亿多美元的新资金，加快实施总统针对适应与复原力的紧急计划（President’s Emergency Plan for Adaptation and Resilience ，简称PREPARE）（请见Fact Sheet: President Biden Announces New Initiatives at COP27 to Strengthen U.S. Leadership in Tackling Climate Change）。他强调，美国致力于帮助非洲脆弱的国家和社区适应和驾驭气候变化造成的影响，这是PREPARE在非洲各地的努力之一。
自2021年1月以来，拜登–哈里斯政府投资和计划提供至少11亿美元支持非洲主导的努力，用于帮助保护自然、适应气候和公平的能源转型。这些投资包括基于全球基础设施和投资合作关系（Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment）的对基础设施项目的投资。
新的行动计划包括：
o 美国–非洲技术能源网（U.S.-Africa Clean Tech Energy Network ，简称CTEN）：电力非洲与繁荣非洲（Prosper Africa）共同建立了CTEN，连接美国和非洲的清洁技术能源公司，在能够利用项目即用技术增加可靠供电的地方推广市场机会。CTEN的目标是在最初五年中协助成交多达3.5亿美元。
o 卫生行业电力和电信联盟（Health Electrification and Telecommunications Alliance [HETA]）：电力非洲准备实施一项1.5亿美元的政府-私营企业合作关系，在撒哈拉以南非洲地区为一万个卫生设施供电，从而加强行业资源，增进疫情抵御能力和数字连接度，并在卫生领域减少碳足迹（请见Fact Sheet:  U.S.- Africa Partnership in Health Cooperation）。
o增加妇女绿色就业：电力非洲将在尼日利亚启动一项新行动计划，增进妇女在能源业向清洁能源技术转型中的参与。
o向马拉维的戈洛莫蒂太阳能公司（Golomoti JCM Solar Corporation Limited）提供2500万美元贷款，用于撒哈拉以南非洲地区第一座具备连接电网的电池能源储存系统的太阳能电厂，帮助保障可靠的电力供应，减少频繁停电。这个电力非洲项目得益于先前美国贸易和发展署（USTDA）资助的可行性研究以及世纪挑战集团（MCC）给予的间接支持。
o在2022财政年度，提供1.8亿多美元资金用于再生能源解决方案，其中包括Mirova Gigaton基金（Mirova Gigaton Fund）、SDG 投资基金（SDG Investment Fund）、非洲再生能源基金2（Africa Renewable Energy Fund II）、以及SunFunder 太阳能转换基金（SunFunder Solar Energy Transformation Fund）。
o 在科特迪瓦的生物质电厂：100万美元专款用于帮助在科特迪瓦建设25兆瓦生物质电厂。这座电厂将通过将农业废物转化为清洁能源向科特迪瓦国家电网输电，从而减少该国兴旺的棉花行业的碳足迹。
o 在塞拉利昂的清洁水力发电：85.7万美元用于支持工程和环境辅助研究，以便落实在塞拉利昂的27兆瓦低截流水力发电厂计划。
o 在赞比亚的电池能源储存技术项目：投资 100万美元，开发和试点一个应用规模的能源储存站，从而有可能每年减少相当于大约26000吨二氧化碳排放，同时增强赞比亚电网的可持续力、复原力和可靠性。
o 与肯尼亚落实地热能空气直接捕获从而每年消除1000-10000吨二氧化碳。
o 与摩洛哥启动太阳能十项全能非洲设计挑战（Solar Decathlon Africa Design Challenge），这个双年竞赛旨在挑战非洲各地大学生团队设计、建造和应用太阳能房屋。这些团队将构思和分享新的适用于非洲的清洁能源建筑设计概念。
o 与莫桑比克扩大国内能源使用渠道，支持负责任的天然气和再生能源开发，为关键矿物质的生产和加工增添经济价值。
o 与碳管理技术和创新非洲卓越中心（The African Center of Excellence for Carbon Management Technology and Innovation）建立有助于在尼日利亚进行碳管理商业开发的环境，并向撒哈拉以南非洲其他国家扩展。
o宣布与加纳开始谈判123协议（123 Agreement），旨在为民用核合作建立法律框架，并包含核反应堆和核材料以及民用核研究和培训项目的可能条款。
o 与肯尼亚签署“核合作谅解备忘录”（Nuclear Cooperation Memorandum of Understanding），表明双方均致力于推进我们的民用核合作，并且宣布在民用核研究方面的新的联合努力。
o 与加纳和肯尼亚启动新的民用核研究，以及在加纳的技术培训项目。
 
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U.S-Africa Partnership in Supporting Conservation, Climate Adaptation and a Just Energy Transition
Fact sheet
The White House
Washington, D.C.
December 13, 2022
During the U.S.-African Leaders Summit, held December 13-15 in Washington DC, the United States affirmed and expanded its enduring partnerships with African governments, the private sector, civil society, and philanthropic actors in recognition of the pivotal role African governments, institutions, and peoples will play in addressing one of the greatest global challenges of our time – climate change.  Many of the most vulnerable countries to climate change are in Africa, and the partnerships highlighted at the Summit will be essential to bolstering their resilience.
At the United Nations Climate Meeting (COP27) in November 2022, President Biden announced U.S. plans to provide over $150 million in new funding to accelerate the President’s Emergency Plan for Adaptation and Resilience (PREPARE) (see Fact Sheet: President Biden Announces New Initiatives at COP27 to Strengthen U.S. Leadership in Tackling Climate Change).  He emphasized the U.S. commitment to help vulnerable countries and communities in Africa adapt to and manage the impacts of climate change as part of PREPARE’s work across the African continent.  
Since January 2021, the Biden-Harris Administration has invested and plans to provide at least $1.1 billion to support African-led efforts to support conservation, climate adaptation, and a just energy transition. These investments include infrastructure projects under the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment (PGII).
New initiatives include:
o U.S.-Africa Clean Tech Energy Network (CTEN): Power Africa, in partnership with Prosper Africa, launched CTEN, which connects U.S. and African cleantech energy companies to market opportunities where project-ready technology can increase access to reliable electricity.  CTEN aims to facilitate up to $350 million in deals within the first five years.
o Health Electrification and Telecommunications Alliance (HETA): Power Africa intends to operationalize a $150 million public- private partnership to electrify 10,000 health facilities in sub-Saharan Africa, bolstering sector resources to advance pandemic resilience and digital connectivity and decarbonize health-sector footprint (see Fact Sheet:  U.S.- Africa Partnership in Health Cooperation).
o Growing Green Jobs for Women: Power Africa will launch a new initiative focused in Nigeria to advance women’s participation in the energy sector’s transition to clean energy technologies.
o $25 million loan to Golomoti JCM Solar Corporation Limited in Malawi for the first solar power plant in sub-Saharan Africa with a grid-connected battery energy storage system that will help ensure dependable supply and reduce frequent blackouts.  This Power Africa project builds on a previous USTDA-funded feasibility study and indirect MCC support.
o In FY 2022, more than $180 million in funds providing renewable energy solutions, including the Mirova Gigaton Fund, SDG Investment Fund, the Africa Renewable Energy Fund II, and the SunFunder Solar Energy Transformation Fund.
o Biomass power plant in Cote d’Ivoire: A $1 million grant to help develop a 25-megawatt biomass powerplant in Cote d’Ivoire.  The plant will supply power to the Ivoirian national grid by transforming agricultural waste to clean energy, easing the carbon footprint of the country’s flourishing cotton sector.
o Clean hydroelectric power in Sierra Leone: $857,000 to support supplementary engineering and environmental studies for the implementation of a 27-megawatt run-of-river hydroelectric plant in Sierra Leone.
o Battery energy storage technology project in Zambia: $1 million investment to develop and pilot a utility-scale energy storage site, which could reduce carbon emissions by an estimated 26,000 metric tons CO2 equivalent per year while providing more sustainability, resilience, and reliability to Zambia’s power grid.
o Kenya to implement direct air capture with geothermal energy to remove 1,000-10,000 tons of carbon dioxide per year.
o Morocco to launch the Solar Decathlon Africa Design Challenge, a biennial competition that challenges teams of university students across the continent to design, build, and operate solar-powered houses.  Teams will formulate and share new concepts on clean building design appropriate for African contexts.
o Mozambique to expand domestic energy access, support responsible natural gas and renewable energy development, and add economic value to critical minerals production and processing.
o The African Center of Excellence for Carbon Management Technology and Innovation to foster an enabling environment for commercial deployment of carbon management in Nigeria, to be expanded to other Sub-Saharan African countries.
o  Announcing the commencement of negotiations with Ghana for a 123 Agreement to set up a legal framework for civil nuclear cooperation, to include the potential provision of nuclear reactors and material as well as civil nuclear studies and training programs.
o Signing Nuclear Cooperation Memorandum of Understanding with Kenya to signal that both parties seek to further our civil nuclear cooperation, and announcing new joint work on civil nuclear studies.
o Launching new civil nuclear studies with Ghana and Kenya and technical training programs in Ghana.
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