Climate Change: Securing Africa’s Future

Climate Change: Securing Africa's Future was jointly hosted by ACET and AUDA-NEPAD as a platform to discuss the outcomes of COP26 for Africa. The event drew on perspectives on resilience, responsibility, accountability, and the gendered impacts of climate to assess where we are in dealing with the climate challenge in Africa. At COP26, African negotiators attempted to hold developed countries – as the main contributors to the climate crisis – accountable for their failure to deliver on the $100bn annual commitment in climate financing for developing countries. The goals of the African Group of Negotiators therefore included securing significantly higher financial commitments to help African countries achieve their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and to ensure that countries can build resilience. With adequate funding, African countries can also work together to achieve climate outcomes as recommended in ACET’s third African Transformation Report: scaling up renewable energy, promoting climate-smart agriculture, and sustaining green and blue ecosystems.