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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

New Climate Finance Goal: Different Topic, Same Arguments in Colombia

At the most recent meeting on the new climate finance target in Cartagena, countries redrew the same battle lines as ...

Climate Finance

Scaling Climate Change Literacy in Africa

The African public has a low understanding of what climate change is and its cause, with some of the most ...

African Climate Policy

The ICJ Climate Liability Opinion: Why Are African Countries So Quiet?

We spoke with Nomasango Masiye Moyo, an attorney at Natural Justice, about the pending request for an advisory opinion from ...

Climate Finance

African Climate Voices: Greenwatch

Founded in 1995 by leading environmental lawyer Kenneth Kakuru, Greenwatch is a Ugandan environmental rights advocacy organisation. We spoke with ...

Climate Litigation

Climate litigation in Africa: Where to from here?

We spoke with Nicole Loser, a seasoned climate litigator from South Africa, about the African litigation horizon and the successes ...

Climate Litigation

New IMF policy committee chair against fossil fuel phaseouts

The IMF has been thrust into the spotlight in recent years as a major actor within the global climate response. ...

Climate Finance