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Tax Cooperation and Climate Finance – Kicking the Can Down the Road to COP29

As the 79th UNGA comes to a close, the global community remains divided on how to address the climate finance ...

Climate Finance

Bridging the Divide between Global Trade Policy and Climate Action 

In response to the global push to shore up green technology developments, African countries are increasingly looking to localise benefits ...

African Climate Policy

Water Insurance Rescues Climate Troubled Communities

Loss and damage discussions have continuously pointed to the need for insurance to fill the gap. Water insurance is becoming ...

African Climate Policy

African Ministers call for $1.3 trillion Climate Finance Target

At the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment, Ministers called for a new climate finance target of not less than ...

Climate Finance

African Carbon Projects Bear the Brunt of Market Dip

Last year's carbon market downturn as a result of integrity concerns particularly impacted REDD+ and cookstove projects in Africa, which ...

Article 6

African Group of Negotiators Put Forward COP29 Positions

The African Group of Negotiators has settled on a set of positions it will take to COP29 in November in ...

COP29

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