Climate change poses a significant threat to humanity, with widespread and severe consequences for people, the natural world, and the global economy. The impacts of climate change are intensifying across the globe, threatening ecosystems, human settlements, and infrastructure. Every passing...
African Civil Society Position for UNFCCC-COP29: Towards Securing Ambitious Needs Based New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) on Climate Finance Preamble Securing an ambitious needs based New Collective Quantiftied Goal on climate finance in Azerbaijan has been a primary expectation from...
Background and context The momentum for Baku to deliver on the New Collective Quantified Goal on climate finance (NCQG) has been well signposted in positions advanced by African countries and it is well embedded in the ambition of the TROIKA....
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Mid-way through a global ‘super-year’ of elections and in the context of new institutional and programming cycles for the EU and AU, the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP29) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is set to be hosted in Baku, Azerbaijan, at which parties are expected to agree on a crucial New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance (NCQG).
Africa is one of the most affected regions by climate change, and its current and historical greenhouse gas emissions are minuscule at a global scale. However, the region received only 20% of international adaptation finance flows
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Debate on which way carbon markets for Africa has been ranging on for a while. Flagged as a major dialogue area during the Multi-stakeholder Consultations on the Outcomes of COP29 and the Road map to COP29, a space convened by AUC, UNECA, AfDB and PACJA, the efforts to midwife an approach that is suitable to the continent still remains on
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While COP28 had several disappointing outcomes, the UAE Framework for Global Climate Resilience emerged as a welcome progress[1]. For the first time, forward-looking targets covering thematic areas essential for human well-being and sustainable development were integrated including: Water, food, health, ecosystems, infrastructure/settlements, poverty reduction & cultural heritage.
