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Getting the Global Goal on Adaptation up and Running

The global goal on adaptation it is wide reaching but disappointingly vague. Recently, countries met to flesh out indicators to measure it, creating an opportunity to craft something more meaningful and useful, that can spur action and channel climate finance where it is needed most.
  • Adaptation

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

Just Energy Transition for Zimbabwe’s Extractive Sector

Just Energy Transitions are not only for high emitting countries, they are also for countries with material extractives sectors, such as Zimbabwe. We interviewed Green Governance Africa’s Executive Director Nyasha Frank Mpahlo about the organisation’s work in Zimbabwe’s energy transition and their recent book on the topic.
  • African Climate Policy

New Climate Finance Goal: Different Topic, Same Arguments in Colombia

At the most recent meeting on the new climate finance target in Cartagena, countries redrew the same battle lines as last year’s loss and damage fund deliberations around who will pay, when, how much and for what actions. While there was some consensus on the framework for the text of the new goal, we are still very far from consensus on its substance.
  • Climate Finance

Scaling Climate Change Literacy in Africa

The African public has a low understanding of what climate change is and its cause, with some of the most climate change literate groups currently located in the fossil fuel industry. As part of the African Union’s Education theme for 2024, we need to mainstream climate change literacy into targeted climate- vulnerable sectors and across government policy and decision makers.
  • African Climate Policy

The ICJ Climate Liability Opinion: Why Are African Countries So Quiet?

We spoke with Nomasango Masiye Moyo, an attorney at Natural Justice, about the pending request for an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice on liability for climate change and the relatively muted response by African governments.
  • Climate Finance

African Climate Voices: Greenwatch

Founded in 1995 by leading environmental lawyer Kenneth Kakuru, Greenwatch is a Ugandan environmental rights advocacy organisation. We spoke with Director and Legal Counsel Samantha Atukunda Kakuru Mwesigwa about Greenwatch’s work and the state of climate litigation in Uganda.
  • Climate Litigation

Climate litigation in Africa: Where to from here?

We spoke with Nicole Loser, a seasoned climate litigator from South Africa, about the African litigation horizon and the successes and challenges in bringing a climate case. She highlights how reframing what we define as a climate case reveals more activity on the continent, the human element of strategic litigation, and some of the trends to watch.
  • Climate Litigation

New IMF policy committee chair against fossil fuel phaseouts

  • Climate Finance

African countries set their sights on an ambitious new climate finance target

Ahead of the upcoming climate finance meeting in Colombia this month, African countries have laid out an ambitious approach to the new collective quantified goal on climate finance, arguing for it to be based on the actual needs of countries and not just a political figure.
  • Climate Finance