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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. Lead Coordinator, African Adaptation Acceleration Program by Edith Ofwona Adera  Courtesy of Edith Ofwona Adera Every year, the African Development Bank, the Global Center on Adaptation, and Climate Investment Funds partner to award grants for the African Youth Adaptation Solutions Challenge (YouthADAPT). Since 2021, it has supported 39 enterprises across 20 countries in Africa—with women-led businesses representing 63% of these. Leading this effort at the African Development Bank Group is Edith Ofwona Adera, who has encouraged the program to focus its efforts on helping young entrepreneurs to better support their businesses beyond relying on grants—enabling them to better attract financing. Dedicated to scaling climate solutions, Ofwona Adera also oversees the African Adaptation Acceleration Program, a $25 billion initiative to boost climate action across Africa. _—Kyla Mandel_ **What is the single most important action you think the public, or a specific company or government, needs to take in the next year to advance the climate agenda?** Ethiopia, as host of next year’s much-anticipated COP32, dubbed the "African COP," has a distinct opportunity. It can redirect the climate discourse and reshape the narrative towards showcasing already-achieved results. Not to just talk about the need for climate action, but to provide a platform for stakeholders to showcase real results. I believe this will help push beyond the rhetoric of "the need for climate action" towards learning what has worked, what has not, and how we can recalibrate to truly achieve climate action at scale. This would be a game changer for the global climate agenda and set the right tone for the future. **What’s one sustainability effort you personally will try to adopt in the next year?** I am a very passionate believer of sustainability. Not just in words but in deeds. I have designed a blueprint "off-grid living" concept which I will start executing and building, in phases, from early 2027\. Nestled at the shores of Lake Victoria in Kenya, it will serve as my retirement home but also an inspiration to humanity as a tangible example of sustainable living. It will showcase innovations in renewable energy, solar-powered water supply and recycling, smart agriculture, sustainable agroforestry, net-zero local processing, among others. The innovations are curated from across the world and will be displayed as masterpieces of sustainability in one location: my off-grid living space by the shores of Lake Victoria. I believe in inspiring people to act on sustainability, leading by example and from the front. **What is a climate solution that isn't getting the attention or funding it deserves?** Climate innovators and their solutions are not getting the flexible and risk-tolerant financing they deserve to unleash their seeds of greatness and entrepreneurial ingenuity to scale and crowd in follow-on private capital. Young Africans are not just victims of climate change; many are innovators providing climate solutions at the frontlines of the emergency. Their climate solutions across various sectors—renewable energy, smart agriculture, waste management, sustainable water management, e-mobility—are, however, caught in the "missing middle" financing gap experienced by early-stage small and growing climate businesses, often underserved by both commercial financiers and traditional grant programs. 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