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AU Summit Underscores Industrialisation, Climate, Security and Trade Nexus

The recent AU Summit highlighted the centrality of African regional integration, the AfCFTA, industrialisation, local value, and integrated climate and industrial policy, with momentum behind climate and security measures.
  • African Climate Policy

Can South Africa Legally Walk Back its Carbon Tax?

Can a country lawfully walk back a central tenet of its mitigation policy in its NDC under the Paris Agreement? We discuss the proposal to suspend South Africa’s carbon tax.
  • Climate Finance

Transforming Geological Wealth into Industrial Power – Whereto for Africa after the Mining Indaba?

The Mining Indaba laid bare a stark choice – continue as a pit-to-port extractive frontier, or deploy the continent’s US$1trillion in institutional assets to build critical mineral infrastructure and processing capacity that transforms resources into lasting industrial power.
  • Climate Finance

South Africa Criticizes DRC Approach to Critical minerals as US Interest Piques

The Mining Indaba has exposed simmering tensions between South Africa and the DRC over the latter’s recent deals with the US, while US interest in the continent’s minerals intensifies dramatically.
  • African Climate Policy

Carbon Markets, Sovereign Risk and Clean Cooking: What the KOKO case tells Africa

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BRICS and the Limits of South–South Climate Leadership in 2026

BRICS has the capacity to fundamentally shift global climate governance, yet internal diversity and geopolitical entanglements constrain its leadership. Its significance ahead instead lies in influencing institutional structures that finance climate action.
  • African Climate Policy

In Conversation with Dr. Amoah, the New AGN Chair

We spoke with Ghana’s Nana Dr. Antwi-Boasiako Amoah, the new Chair of the African Group of Negotiators (AGN) about the future of climate multilateralism, the priorities of the group, and what he hopes to champion this year.
  • African Climate Policy

The AU-EU Luanda Summit: Continuation of the Self-Deception Trap

The African Union (AU) and European Union (EU) missed the opportunity that their joint summit in Luanda, Angola presented to reset their partnership to make it fit for purpose, and to reposition the regions for a rapidly changing geopolitical context.
  • African Climate Policy

US to exit the UNFCCC, but will it be out of the picture entirely?

While the latest statement of intent to withdraw from the UNFCCC may herald an exit from the climate treaty regime, the country is still intrinsically tied to the rest of the world through trade, climate financial institutions and a dwindling aid budget
  • Climate Finance