France will invest $14.32 billion in Africa’s Great Green Wall between 2021 and 2025, with the aim of preventing desertification in the Sahel region of the Northern Sahara Desert. The announcement was made by President Macron at a biodiversity summit in Paris on Monday, where UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson also pledged t£3 billion of the UK’s £11.6 billion climate finance budget to 2025 to supporting nature and biodiversity. The World Bank also said that it would invest over $5 billion over the next five years to help restore degraded landscapes, improve agriculture productivity, and promote livelihoods in 11 African countries as they recover from the Covid-19 pandemic. The world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, still holds $85 billion in coal-related…