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

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Looking Back: 2025 in Review

2025 was a whirlwind year for Africa’s climate agenda, with both internal and external events shaping the continent’s positions and priorities. We break down the themes and topics that defined the year, and what may lay ahead for 2026.
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Advocating for a Just Transition in the Global South

We spoke with Leanne Govindsamy at Southern Transitions about her views about the just transition, the need for more regional just transition frameworks, localized critical mineral interventions, systems change and the role of adaptation in a just transition.
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Africa Can and Should Have a Fully Renewable Energy Mix

In a recent report, Powershift Africa argues that Africa is well positioned to develop a fully renewable energy system and achieve a just energy transition, through investment, policy support and the removal of structural barriers.
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Will the June Climate Talks Deliver on the Global Stocktake?

The Global Stocktake concluded in 2023, but Parties still cannot agree on the structure of discussions for its implementation. What does this mean for NDCs and what must come out of the Bonn Climate Talks?
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Trapped in Green Debt: Debt for Climate Swaps Are Not Enough

While the African Union Continues to Endorse Them as a Pillar of Climate Finance at This Year’s Debt Conference in Togo, Debt for Nature Swaps May Not Be Sufficiently Reliable to Navigate the Debt and Climate Crisis. To Be Effective, They Must Be Accompanied by a Significant Cancellation or Reduction in Overall Debt.
  • Climate Finance, Uncategorized

Loss and Damage Fund Won’t Operate “At Scale”

The Loss and Damage Fund is finally on a path to distributing funds – it will spend US$250 million until the end of 2026 on an initial clutch of interventions, with half going to SIDS and LDCS, but with no agreement that it will operate “at scale”.
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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. 
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Loss and Damage Finance: Youth-led COP29 Expectations and Demands

Lamis Elkhatieb from the Loss and Damage Youth Coalition writes on the group’s expectations for COP29 on loss and damage finance, and the operationalisation of the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage.
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