Category: African Climate Policy

Export Restrictions on Critical Minerals: What Zimbabwe’s Recent Ban Tells Us 

African countries have an opportunity with critical minerals to negotiate better investment terms and promote local industrialisation. However, poorly designed export restrictions could also discourage investment and lead to unintended economic consequences.
  • African Climate Policy, Uncategorized

Energy and Geopolitics: The Strait of Hormuz and Africa’s Energy Security

The recent war in Iran has once again raised issues about energy access and sovereignty. For African countries, it presents an opportunity to enhance domestic production and increase renewable energy output. However, not every industry will be able to seamlessly transition to alternative energy sources.
  • African Climate Policy

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

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

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

COP30’s Gender Action Plan Needed to Address Climate-Induced Violence

Talks underpinning COP30’s Gender Action Plan reveal the fragility of progress in recognising the systems of oppression that affect women, girls, and gender diverse people.
  • African Climate Policy

 Africa’s Climate Agenda in the Wake of the South African G20 Presidency

Following the US withdrawal from the G20 Summit, and a lack of agreement on climate and just transition matters, the Johannesburg Leaders’ Declaration issued this past weekend was a surprise to many, reflecting South Africa’s astute diplomacy, and signalling that US obstinacy would not block multilateral cooperation.
  • African Climate Policy

Zimbabwe Sets Out Climate Ambitions With Climate Change Management Bill

Zimbabwe Is One Step Closer to a Climate Change Law. What Does the Climate Change Management Bill Entail, and Will It Work?
  • African Climate Policy