Flickr.comFile image by Keith Galens Paris – The French government and nine other partners on Tuesday renewed their commitment to mobilise a cumulative US$10 billion between 2015 and 2020 to boost access to energy in Africa. Canada, France, Britain, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United States, Sweden, Netherlands and the European Union (EU) will jointly provide the money which will help developing countries adapt to global warming and build renewable energy sources. Germany is contributing €3,3 billion, while France, the US, Britain, Canada, Japan, Italy, Sweden, Netherlands and the EU Commission would contribute the remaining €6.7 billion. The announcement was made during the ongoing climate talks at the 21st Conference of Parties (COP) to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The Africa Renewable Energy Initiative aims to achieve at least 10 GW of new and additional renewable energy generation capacity by 2020 which would be sufficient to ...