Category: COP30

Thirty COPs and Robbers: Key Outcomes from the Negotiations

This year’s COP30 talks proffered the same tensions, particularly around finance, increased ambition, burden shifting, and how to agree to the detail needed to support the implementation of existing aspirations and commitments. The final text is strong on new initiatives but weak on accountability mechanisms. Overcoming this impasse will be key to Africa successfully hosting the talks at COP32.
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The fate of Africa’s forests at COP30

Tropical forests were front and centre at COP30, with the launch of two initiatives dedicated to forest conservation. For Africa’s tropical forests, COP30’s outcomes are a step in the right direction. However, questions about operationalisation and transparency remain.
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A trillion dollar promise on a warming planet: can COP30’s finance deliver for Africa?

  • Climate Finance, COP30

African Countries Asked to Track their own Spending on Adaptation

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Mid COP30: African representatives call for Adaptation, Finance and Fair Trade

At the halfway point of COP30, the Chair of the Africa Group of Negotiators (AGN), Dr. Richard Muyungi and the COP30 Special Envoy for Africa, Prof Carlos Lopes, hosted a joint press-briefing, where they underscored the continent’s priorities for COP30, following a long week of negotiations.
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COP30 Kick-off: the Issues that Await the Negotiators

This year’s COP has to respond and rectify the legacies of the dismal outcomes of COP29, and must deliver on items that were unfinalized last year. If the event is to showcase renewed support for multilateralism, there will need to be higher levels of conciliation, particularly on finance and adaptation. 
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Finally, some Just Transition Agreement, but what of the Fossil Fuel Roadmap?

The June climate talks were able to deliver a draft that finally sets out an expansive view of the just transition. COP30 host, Brazil, has suggested a Roadmap to transition away from fossil fuels, how will this align with the self-determined pathways African countries want?
  • COP30, NetZero and the Just Transition

From Baku to Belém: will politics derail the US$1.3 Trillion Climate Finance Roadmap?

As the US$1.3trillion climate finance roadmap hangs in the balance, the Bonn meetings expose a familiar rift, with developed countries avoiding concrete discussions on their obligations, and developing countries asking for more transparency on the Baku to Belém roadmap and a burden sharing agreement. 
  • Climate Finance, COP30

Charting Africa’s Path in the Global Loss and Damage Agenda: The Evolution of the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD)

The Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage, Has Made Significant Strides Since Its Inception. Ahead of Its Sixth Board Meeting, There Are a Number of Objectives and Needs That African Countries Should Be Focusing on to Ensure That It Is Fit for Purpose.
  • COP30, Loss And Damage

AGN Chair, Dr Richard Muyungi, on the Group’s Priorities Ahead of Upcoming Climate Talks in Bonn

We spoke with the Chair of the African Group of Negotiators (AGN), and Climate Envoy and Advisor to the President of Tanzania, Dr Richard Muyungi on the climate talks in Bonn between 16 and 26 June 2025.
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