Article Author: Dr Brian Mantlana

The Centrality of the COP30 Action Agenda

The Climate Action Agenda is emerging as another currency in the UNFCCC COPs: a currency that catalyses momentum for implementation and ambition through practical collaborations and global solidarity.
  • Climate Negotiations

Making the African Group of Negotiators an agenda setter

The African Group of Negotiators (AGN) can better position itself among agenda setters by investing its technical resources and diplomatic capital in influencing the climate regime’s institutional features. It should be challenging the system that penalises geographic and economic vulnerability, and should play a leading role in the intersection of human rights and climate change responses. By strengthening ties with the emerging economic powers of the Global South it can advance its agency in the negotiations.
  • African Climate Policy

What happened with the Global Goal on Adaptation at COP28?

Taken together, the outcome on the global goal on adaptation misses an opportunity of facilitating climate resilient development in developing countries. In this overview, CSIR  holistic climate change impact area manager and South African Presidential Climate Commission member, Dr Brian Mantlana, unpacks the outcomes of COP28 for the goal, arguing its laughable timelines and the lack of financial commitments makes it a farce.
  • Adaptation, Climate Negotiations