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Youth Perspectives on Loss and Damage

Living in one of the most climate vulnerable regions, African youth are pushing their governments to better prepare for climate ...

Climate Finance

Rating Africa Right – The Climate Finance Dilemma

A recent push by the African Union might see an African Credit Rating Agency established by early next year. Will ...

Climate Finance

Climate Change is Fuelling Extremism in West African Youth

The loss of agricultural land, reduced water resources, and extreme weather events, among other factors, are creating fertile conditions for ...

African Climate Policy

Climate Change: a Curve Ball in SADC’s Quest for Industrialisation?

At the 44th SADC Summit, the bloc grappled with how it would achieve its industrialisation goals whilst responding to climate ...

Climate Finance

Zimbabwe Seeks to Calm Carbon Market Waters

Zimbabwe is at pains to repair the investor and carbon market damage wrought by last year’s statements, through the introduction ...

African Climate Policy

African Countries Should Stop Developing Pointless Climate Technology Plans

Technology Needs Assessments (TNAs) are the primary instruments of the technology transfer process under the Paris Agreement. But a total ...

African Climate Policy

South Africa Finally Gets its Climate Change Act

The long awaited Climate Change Act charts a course for the government to implement decade’s old climate policy, and signals ...

Adaptation

Tapping Into The Growing Global ESG Bonds Market – Nigeria Punching Below its Weight

Given the US$ 1.2 billion chasm between the expectations of advanced and developing countries, Africa must find innovative ways to ...

Climate Finance

People’s Climate vote calls for greater action on Climate Change

With 19 African countries due to hold general or presidential elections this year, the People’s Vote on Climate Change highlights ...

African Climate Policy

Getting the Global Goal on Adaptation up and Running

The global goal on adaptation it is wide reaching but disappointingly vague. Recently, countries met to flesh out indicators to ...

Adaptation

Making the African Group of Negotiators an agenda setter

The African Group of Negotiators (AGN) can better position itself among agenda setters by investing its technical resources and diplomatic ...

African Climate Policy

Just Energy Transition for Zimbabwe’s Extractive Sector

Just Energy Transitions are not only for high emitting countries, they are also for countries with material extractives sectors, such ...

African Climate Policy