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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

African countries set their sights on an ambitious new climate finance target

Ahead of the upcoming climate finance meeting in Colombia this month, African countries have laid out an ambitious approach to ...

Climate Finance

Dean Bhekumuzi Bhebhe Profile

We spoke with Bhekumuzi Dean Bhebhe, a Campaigns Lead at Power Shift Africa and Co-facilitator at Don’t Gas Africa about ...

Uncategorized

From Raspberry Tea to Rosella Dreams: Investing in Women for Climate Resilience

African women are particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Investing in resilience building and adaptation initiatives that prioritise ...

Uncategorized

No Place to Discuss the CBAM, not even the WTO

Hopes were high that the WTO’s 13th Ministerial Conference that ended on 2 March, would address climate change and trade, ...

Trade

All Eyes are on the AU’s Climate Policy ahead of G20 Accession

At its 37th summit, the African Union’s climate committee, CAHOSCC, endorsed the establishment of a body to implement the Nairobi ...

African Climate Policy

No Consensus in the IPCC for a Loss and Damage Assessment or When it will Finalise its Next Major Reports

Last month, countries could not agree on whether to accelerate the pre-2028 delivery dates for the IPCC’s upcoming reports on ...

Loss And Damage

Ghana Imposes Vehicle Carbon Taxes: Are They the Answer?

Ghana’s introduction of a carbon levy on vehicles, follows a push by more than seven African countries who have done ...

African Climate Policy

Nigeria Expands its Climate Repertoire by Banning Certain Plastics

In January, the Nigerian state of Lagos introduced a ban on Styrofoam, sparking protests from industry and food vendors, but ...

African Climate Policy

Picky Eating: Food Systems Get a Small Serving at COP28

At COP28, Food Systems were finally introduced onto the plate of a major UNFCCC negotiation text. However, it was only ...

COP28

How might COP28’s outcomes impact the Private Sector in Africa?

On the side-lines of the COP, a series of climate finance announcements were made that could advance private sector climate ...

Article 6

Agriculture at COP28: Outcomes and implications for Africa

The African continent boasts vast agricultural potential and yet most countries are net food importers. For years agriculture has been ...

Adaptation

COP28: where did we land on Carbon Credits?

While there was some progress on several outcomes at COP28, many texts and decisions remain unfinalised. One of these relates ...

COP28

What happened with the Global Goal on Adaptation at COP28?

Taken together, the outcome on the global goal on adaptation misses an opportunity of facilitating climate resilient development in developing ...

Adaptation

COP28: Looking Back

As we emerge from another fraught COP, we undertake our own stocktake of where agreements were wrought and where further ...

COP28

COP28 Kicks Off With a Loss and Damage Fund and an Agreed Agenda

COP28 President Dr Sultan Al Jaber took some hits this week, but he also championed an excellent start to the ...

COP28