Our Africa-centric news reporting highlights key global and regional developments that have implications for African climate priorities and positions. We aim to make negotiations, proceedings, and decisions under the international climate legal regime and other global platforms, accessible and relevant to a wider African audience and to broaden regional awareness and dialogue on important climate developments. In doing so we document current affairs, policy and legal developments, negotiation positions, and research, drawing linkages between these developments and the continent’s priorities and concerns. Our Africa-based reporters are deeply engaged with regional climate affairs, and their work is supported by insights from a wide network of climate experts. Updates are released on a monthly basis and available in newsletter form and on our website.
Olivia Rumble is a climate change legal and policy expert, and a director of Climate Legal. Her work primarily resides in the nexus between international climate negotiations and national responses that both inform and give effect to these developments. She has a particular focus in the interpretation and application of the Paris Agreement and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, loss and damage, adaptation, climate finance and national climate change legislative developments. She is based in South Africa and works across the continent, providing advice and support to African governments, thinktanks, civil society and the private sector on a wide range of climate change policy and legal issues.
Mako Muzenda is a Zimbabwean writer and communications professional with over five years of experience in the private and non-profit sectors. Her areas of interest include sustainable development, energy and the just transition and geopolitics, all from the perspective of the Global South.
Patrick is African Climate Wire’s economy and finance correspondent. He is a policy researcher and governance expert specialising in fiscal and economic governance, public financial management, sovereign debt, climate finance, extractive sector reforms, and macroeconomic policy. With extensive experience leading high-impact research, advocacy, and capacity-building initiatives, he has informed critical policy decisions, including Ghana’s mining policy, trade and private sector development policy, energy transition strategies, and fiscal reforms. His technical expertise includes analysing fiscal regimes, assessing budget credibility, conducting legal and macroeconomic research, and advising on revenue management in the extractive sector. He also conducts climate finance mapping, evaluates green bonds and carbon markets, and provides insights on sovereign debt dynamics, infrastructure projects, and broader economic policy issues. Patrick’s work bridges research and practice, fostering institutional reforms and sustainable development across Africa.
Andrew Gilder is a director of Climate Legal with more than twenty years’ experience specialising in climate change (mitigation and adaptation), climate finance and development, carbon markets, carbon tax, environmental and energy law, policy and governance. Andrew has a particular interest and expertise in carbon markets and carbon pricing and has worked across the continent on the development of national and regional pricing approaches and the evolution of Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. He also deeply steeped in the design and drafting of national climate change laws and has worked on draft Climate Change Bills in in Africa and abroad.
