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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

Proposed UN Tax Convention Sparks Hope for African Climate Finance

A recent UN Resolution to develop a global tax convention might stem illicit financial flows and create a more equitable ...

Climate Finance

Roadmap to COP28 Positions and Priorities – What Does Africa Want?

Going into a COP it can be daunting to track the various issues under discussion. We’ve tried to do the ...

COP28

COP28 and Trade: Will Anyone Say Anything?

Despite climate related trade measures like the CBAM being one of the most controversial climate developments this year, it is ...

COP28

COP28: What are the African Positions on the Global Stocktake?

This COP is the moment for an open and frank discussion of what caused past failures, and an opportunity to ...

COP28

Loss and Damage Fund Recommendations Finalised

In a bittersweet victory, the Transitional Committee has finally arrived at a set of recommendations on the design of the ...

COP28

Latest global stocktake report replete with bold and developing country centric positions

The most recent Global Stocktake Report from the UN Secretariat puts forward what are primarily developing country positions on key ...

COP28

Climate change fund replenishment falls vastly short

The latest replenishment of the UN’s climate fund, the GCF, barely moves the needle on what has been historically pledged. ...

Climate Finance

Slow progress and small wins at the IMF and World Bank meetings

At their annual meetings in Marrakesh this month, the World Bank and IMF agreed to some incremental reforms, including increasing ...

Climate Finance

Interview with Kenya’s special climate envoy, Ali Mohamed, on the outcomes of the Africa Climate Summit

We had the pleasure of speaking with the Special Climate Envoy for Kenya, Ali Mohamed, in the days that followed ...

COP28

African Negotiators Push Back on Key Elements of the Global Stocktake Report

The recent synthesis report for the Global Stocktake hints at some consensus around fossil fuel phaseouts. But African negotiators are ...

COP28

African Countries call for Finance Reform at the UNGA, but Lack of GCF Pledges is Worrying

African countries made impassioned and detailed statements on how the global finance architecture should change at this year’s UN General ...

Climate Finance

Looking towards the IMF and World Bank meetings in Marrakech

Looking towards the IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings on 9 October in Marrakech, expectations are that climate related reforms ...

Climate Finance

Interview with Egypt’s Lead Climate Change Negotiator, Ambassador Mohamed Nasr, on Climate Finance and the Africa Climate Summit

We spoke with Egypt’s chief climate negotiator, Ambassador Mohamed Nasr, who headed the COP27 Presidency’s team and led many of ...

Climate Finance