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Countries Grapple with Climate Equity and Finance at the WHO

Members of the WHO are deliberating over a draft Global Action Plan on Climate Change and Health, but African countries want to see greater differentiation between which countries are expected to decarbonise their health sectors, and stronger linkages between actions and finance.
  • African Climate Policy

Integrating Climate Change into African Health Policies and NDCs

Health remains an under-developed topic in African NDCs, however many African countries lack the necessary health data, information and finance to develop and implement responsive policy. Despite these challenges some regions are seeking to prioritise health in their adaptive responses, underscoring the importance of integrated climate and health policy.
  • African Climate Policy

African Diplomats and Russia Seek Strategic Climate Alliance

In February, Ali Mohamed, the special Climate Envoy of the President of Kenya and the (then) chair of the African Group of Negotiators met with senior Russian representatives to discuss climate matters, ending in agreement on a joint work plan. A long history of collaboration between the regions, dwindling climate finance from the West and a push by Russia for African critical minerals, may see more strategic climate alliances between the two regions.
  • African Climate Policy

Climate Induced Migration In Africa: How Can The Law Enable Free Movement

Climate change is reshaping Africa’s migration landscape, but extant international laws leave millions unprotected. Regional free movement agreements—especially IGAD’s forward-thinking protocol—provide a framework to address this gap.
  • African Climate Policy

Transactional Multilateralism: Africa’s Quest for Sustainable Climate Finance

Amid Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement and opposition to the draft International Tax Convention, Africa faces a pivotal moment: rely on fragmented external support or forge a unified tax and climate strategy to secure sustainable finance, protect fiscal sovereignty, and drive equitable global negotiations.
  • Climate Finance

Most Countries Missed the Deadline to Submit NDCs, What Needs to Happen Next?

Only 15 countries met the 10 February deadline to submit their updated NDCs under the Paris Agreement, but it looks likely that an extension will be granted. Ozayr Patel unpacks how this round of NDCs must be a step up from the last, and the key issues African countries should focus on.
  • African Climate Policy

Mission 300: Will it Move the Needle on African Energy Poverty?

The launch of Mission 300 was heralded as a game-changer in regional efforts to enhance energy access in Africa. The initiative includes support for LNG projects as a transition fuel, which has raised concerns by civil society who are looking to see cleaner and more sustainable sources of energy in its stead. There are also questions around the concesionality of the finance provided and the extent country ownership over energy generation facilities.
  • African Climate Policy, NetZero and the Just Transition

A Weaker, Meeker CBAM?

This week’s proposed revisions to the EU’s CBAM indicate that the bloc’s appetite for its full operation next year is alive and well, but that it is looking to reduce the number of EU importers it applies to, and to delay the payment obligation. This may benefit African exporters, but tweaks to calculation methods might make things harder in other respects. 
  • Trade

Where To Now For The Adaption Fund?

  • Climate Finance

AGN reacts to Trump’s withdrawal from Paris Agreement

The African Group of Negotiators calls the US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement a direct threat to global climate efforts, leaving vulnerable nations without critical financial and technical support.
  • African Climate Policy