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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 ...

African Climate Policy

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

Kenya has been well known for its pro carbon market stance and support for high integrity credits. So it came ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

African Climate Policy

US to exit the UNFCCC, but will it be out of the picture entirely?

While the latest statement of intent to withdraw from the UNFCCC may herald an exit from the climate treaty regime, ...

Climate Finance

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 ...

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The Centrality of the COP30 Action Agenda

The Climate Action Agenda is emerging as another currency in the UNFCCC COPs: a currency that catalyses momentum for implementation ...

COP30

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, ...

African Climate Policy

A New Just Transition Mechanism: Why It Matters for Africa

The Just Transition Mechanism could connect “transitions out” with “transitions in”, linking decarbonisation with Africa’s diversification needs and supporting critical ...

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 ...

COP30

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 ...

COP30

A trillion dollar promise on a warming planet: can COP30’s finance deliver for Africa?

Grand ambitions and financial pledges of COP30 The curtains came down on the Brazilian city of Belém on Saturday once ...

Climate Finance

 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 ...

African Climate Policy

African Countries Asked to Track their own Spending on Adaptation

Ahead of COP30 there was much anticipation, particularly by developing countries, that the indicators to track progress on the achievement ...

Adaptation

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

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 ...

COP30

Debt Addressed but not Overhauled at Development Finance Conference

The fourth Financing for Development Conference (FFD4) convened in Sevilla, Spain, ending on 3 July, marking the end of a ...

Climate Finance