Urban populations and areas across Africa are booming, with the potential to drive development, improve standards of living and boost economic growth – but climate change looms overhead. Can cities balance rapid urbanisation with resilience building and adaptation?
The Loss and Damage Fund is finally on a path to distributing funds – it will spend US$250 million until the end of 2026 on an initial clutch of interventions, with half going to SIDS and LDCS, but with no ...
Ensuring equity and justice continue to be the focus of climate negotiators, with talks of reparations increasing – negotiators seek clarity on the climate finance target and continue to prioritise adaptation indicators and the updating of NDCS.
The 2025 Spring Meetings revealed a stark divergence: while global institutions reframe development around jobs and energy, Africa’s climate crisis demands both electrification and systemic adaptation—neither can wait.
The DRC and Rwanda have agreed on a pathway to peace by 2 May, but it follows on the back of both countries discussing critical minerals deals with the US.
A new paper has found that African citizens place primary responsibility on their own governments to respond to climate change, and not historic emitters. The most vulnerable also have low expectations that their governments will respond adequately.
Last week’s IMO meeting agreeing to a global shipping carbon levy had a low turnout of African States and a high number of abstentions on an issue that may significantly and disproportionately impact them
We spoke with Reem Elsayed, an international health expert, about how climate change and health systems intersect in Africa. Some countries are doing better than others, but many are struggling with funding cuts, a high pre-existing burden of disease, and ...
Members of the WHO are deliberating over a draft Global Action Plan on Climate Change and Health, but African countries want to see greater differentiation between which countries are expected to decarbonise their health sectors, and stronger linkages between actions ...
Health remains an under-developed topic in African NDCs, however many African countries lack the necessary health data, information and finance to develop and implement responsive policy. Despite these challenges some regions are seeking to prioritise health in their adaptive responses, ...
In February, Ali Mohamed, the special Climate Envoy of the President of Kenya and the (then) chair of the African Group of Negotiators met with senior Russian representatives to discuss climate matters, ending in agreement on a joint work plan. ...
Climate change is reshaping Africa’s migration landscape, but extant international laws leave millions unprotected. Regional free movement agreements—especially IGAD’s forward-thinking protocol—provide a framework to address this gap.
Amid Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement and opposition to the draft International Tax Convention, Africa faces a pivotal moment: rely on fragmented external support or forge a unified tax and climate strategy to secure sustainable finance, protect fiscal sovereignty, ...
Only 15 countries met the 10 February deadline to submit their updated NDCs under the Paris Agreement, but it looks likely that an extension will be granted. Ozayr Patel unpacks how this round of NDCs must be a step up ...
The launch of Mission 300 was heralded as a game-changer in regional efforts to enhance energy access in Africa. The initiative includes support for LNG projects as a transition fuel, which has raised concerns by civil society who are looking ...
This week’s proposed revisions to the EU’s CBAM indicate that the bloc’s appetite for its full operation next year is alive and well, but that it is looking to reduce the number of EU importers it applies to, and to ...
The Adaptation Fund’s mandate is to finance projects and programmes that help developing countries adapt to climate change. Takudzwa Chihambakwe speaks to Washington Zhakata, the Adaptation Fund’s Vice Board Chair on its activities, the state of climate finance in the ...
The African Group of Negotiators calls the US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement a direct threat to global climate efforts, leaving vulnerable nations without critical financial and technical support.