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Does anyone actually think that the world’s most developed countries are going to start handing out more money at a more rapid pace because the UN says they should? I’m not counting on it. And I don’t think Africa should count on it. I’m not just basing my opinion on the developed world’s poor track record with respect to keeping promises and meeting deadlines. I’m also relying on the UN’s own data, which show that the majority of the climate financing — more than 60% of climate adaptation funding to date, with nearly all of that figure coming from public-sector sources — provided thus far by higher-income countries to middle- and lower-income countries has taken the form of loans. Not grants given freely, but credits that have to be repaid — which will increase the debt loads of countries that are already facing financial strain. So what’s the alternative? What’s the solution? I believe it’s time for Africa to create its own market-oriented solutions — and that it already has the foundations to start doing so.