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Africa Great Green Wall Initiative Seeks to Overcome Policy and Funding Gaps

The African Union has re-affirmed its commitment to the Great Green Wall initiative. More than a reforestation project, it has ...

African Climate Policy

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 ...

Climate Finance

Climate change hits African cities. Are they ready?

Urban populations and areas across Africa are booming, with the potential to drive development, improve standards of living and boost ...

African Climate Policy

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 ...

Loss And Damage

April Reveals Climate Priorities at the Africa Climate Talks and AGN Strategic Session

Ensuring equity and justice continue to be the focus of climate negotiators, with talks of reparations increasing – negotiators seek ...

African Climate Policy

The Great Retreat – How the World Bank and IMF’s Shift to Jobs over Climate Fails Africa

The 2025 Spring Meetings revealed a stark divergence: while global institutions reframe development around jobs and energy, Africa’s climate crisis ...

Climate Finance

DRC and Rwanda Shake Hands with US in Pledge of Peace for Critical Minerals

The DRC and Rwanda have agreed on a pathway to peace by 2 May, but it follows on the back ...

African Climate Policy

African Citizens Want their Own Governments to Lead on Climate Action

A new paper has found that African citizens place primary responsibility on their own governments to respond to climate change, ...

African Climate Policy

IMO Agrees Shipping Carbon Levy, but Keeps Funds within the Sector

Last week’s IMO meeting agreeing to a global shipping carbon levy had a low turnout of African States and a ...

African Climate Policy

How is Africa Responding to the Climate and Health Nexus?

We spoke with Reem Elsayed, an international health expert, about how climate change and health systems intersect in Africa. Some ...

African Climate Policy

Countries Grapple with Climate Equity and Finance at the WHO

Members of the WHO are deliberating over a draft Global Action Plan on Climate Change and Health, but African countries ...

African Climate Policy

Integrating Climate Change into African Health Policies and NDCs

Health remains an under-developed topic in African NDCs, however many African countries lack the necessary health data, information and finance ...

African Climate Policy

African Diplomats and Russia Seek Strategic Climate Alliance

In February, Ali Mohamed, the special Climate Envoy of the President of Kenya and the (then) chair of the African ...

African Climate Policy

Climate Induced Migration In Africa: How Can The Law Enable Free Movement

Climate change is reshaping Africa’s migration landscape, but extant international laws leave millions unprotected. Regional free movement agreements—especially IGAD’s forward-thinking ...

African Climate Policy

Transactional Multilateralism: Africa’s Quest for Sustainable Climate Finance

Amid Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement and opposition to the draft International Tax Convention, Africa faces a pivotal moment: ...

Climate Finance

Most Countries Missed the Deadline to Submit NDCs, What Needs to Happen Next?

Only 15 countries met the 10 February deadline to submit their updated NDCs under the Paris Agreement, but it looks ...

African Climate Policy

Mission 300: Will it Move the Needle on African Energy Poverty?

The launch of Mission 300 was heralded as a game-changer in regional efforts to enhance energy access in Africa. The ...

African Climate Policy

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 ...

Trade