African Climate Policy Centre
https://hdl.handle.net/10855/22602
2024-03-29T14:26:46ZMapping carbon and forest certification, and related economic benefits to investors in the transition to net zero: examples from the countries participating in the Congo Basin Blue Fund
https://hdl.handle.net/10855/50096
Mapping carbon and forest certification, and related economic benefits to investors in the transition to net zero: examples from the countries participating in the Congo Basin Blue Fund
The world’s three largest tropical rainforests are located in the Amazon, the Congo
River Basin and South-East Asia. Over the past 20 years, forests across South-East Asia have
collectively become a net source of carbon emissions due to clearing for plantations,
uncontrolled fires and drainage of peat soils. The Amazon River Basin, which stretches across
nine countries in South America, is still a net carbon sink, but teeters on the edge of becoming
a net source if forest loss continues at current rates. The Amazon Basin has experienced
heightened deforestation over the past four years due to clearance for cattle pasture and
degradation from fires.
Of the world’s three largest tropical rainforests, only the Congo Basin has enough
standing forest left to remain a strong net carbon sink. The Congo’s tropical rainforest
sequesters 600 million metric tons more carbon dioxide per year than it emits, which is
equivalent to about one third of the carbon dioxide emissions from all transportation in the
United States of America. Protecting the remaining forests in the Congo River region is critical
to mitigating climate change.
2024-01-01T00:00:00ZThe impact of the recent weather shocks on businesses (mainly SMEs) and macroeconomic and social stability in Sudan
https://hdl.handle.net/10855/49953
The impact of the recent weather shocks on businesses (mainly SMEs) and macroeconomic and social stability in Sudan
In 2020, the government of Sudan was affected by the worst flooding in over three decades after months of rains across Central and Northeaster Africa. Since the start of the rainy season in July, large rainfall surpluses had been recorded throughout the Greater Horn of Africa. Heavy rains in the upstream catchments of the Blue Nile (Ethiopia) and the White Nile (South Sudan) resulted in a dramatic increase of Nile water levels. In total, the floods affected all 18 States in Sudan. This prompted government to seek out additional support from donors and development partners, including from UNECA, to devise effective plans and actions for both reconstruction and greener recovery. To respond to that demand, UNECA has coordinated an assessment of the effects of that flood on the businesses and macroeconomic and social effects, which produced an insight that informed the proposed recommendations to support development of national reconstruction and green recovery plans. The assessment specifically sets out to: support country-led assessments and initiate recovery planning processes through a coordinated inter-institutional approach; evaluate the impact of the floods on infrastructure and assets, service delivery, governance and social processes; assess needs to address underlying risks and vulnerabilities so as to reduce risk and build back better; estimate the damage and losses caused by the floods; identify recovery and reconstruction needs; guide development of a recovery strategy; and provide the basis for mobilizing resources for recovery and reconstruction through local, national and international sources.
2023-01-01T00:00:00ZThe Cairo world conference on preparing for climate change :some problem of preparing for climate change in the energy sector in Africa
https://hdl.handle.net/10855/49908
The Cairo world conference on preparing for climate change :some problem of preparing for climate change in the energy sector in Africa
The African continent straddles the equator, between latitudes 35 degrees North and 33 degrees South. More than any other continent, its land mass is under strong insolation for much of the year as the sun commutes annually between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. Two major deserts, the Sahara and the Kulahari and vast arid and semiarid zones have high daytime temperatures. Rainfall is low and unreliable in the semi-arid zones. Evaporation rates are high and soil moisture levels are low over long periods. The Cairo world conference on preparing for climate change some problems of preparing for climate change in the energy sector in Africa. The need to wean the energy sector in Africa from overwhelming dependence on biomass has been recognized for some time. The likely impact of global warming in rapidly extending and worsening the scarcity of biomass by reducing bio productivity of large inhabited areas of the continent, makes switching to non-biomass energy sources a critically urgent necessity.
1989-12-01T00:00:00ZHarnessing climate-informed digital crop intelligence technologies is key to building the resilience of food systems against climate change in the SADC region : policy brief
https://hdl.handle.net/10855/49839
Harnessing climate-informed digital crop intelligence technologies is key to building the resilience of food systems against climate change in the SADC region : policy brief
Climate-informed crop intelligence technologies are vital for building the resilience of food systems against the impacts of extremes in climate variation and climate change. As a result, agricultural policymakers, practitioners, and planners have used them to make tactical and strategic decisions, including estimating agricultural inputs needed months before the crop-growing season, selecting potential management practices, estimating crop performance and yields under various seasonal climate forecast scenarios, and providing anticipatory options against climate change. This capacity-building activity, however, requires the full cooperation of relevant national and regional organizations, initiatives, and governments in the region to be sustainable and have a long-term impact.
2023-05-01T00:00:00ZUnrelenting catastrophic droughts and successive failed rainy seasons in the Greater Horn of Africa : what can we do better to protect millions of smallholder farmers and livestock keepers from extreme weather and climate crisis ? policy brief
https://hdl.handle.net/10855/49838
Unrelenting catastrophic droughts and successive failed rainy seasons in the Greater Horn of Africa : what can we do better to protect millions of smallholder farmers and livestock keepers from extreme weather and climate crisis ? policy brief
The sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) confirms that the Greater Horn of Africa (GHoA) is one of the most adversely impacted regions on the planet by extreme weather events, climate variability, and change. Addressing the impacts of devastating extreme weather events, climate vulnerabilities, and changes in GHoA requires strengthening Climate Information Services (CIS), including in terms of Anticipatory Action, Early Warning Systems (EWS), and preparedness and early action for climate-resilient development, among others. Part of the recommendations and policy-related solutions to the devastating extreme weather events and climate crisis calls for countries to shift from delayed silos and reactive emergency management to proactive responses through effective joint investment, adoption, and implementation of multi-hazard early warning for all initiatives and programs aimed at enhanced regional preparedness and early action by the GHoA countries and the international development partners. These include: Strengthening disaster risk knowledge and management, Enhancing infrastructure, human and technical capacity for observing, monitoring, analyzing, and forecasting extreme weather and climate variability-related hazards, Improving communication and dissemination for better access, uptake, and use of a multi-hazard early warning, and (iv) Enhancing preparedness and coordinated early action by building regional, national, and community-level response capabilities of the GHoA countries.
2023-06-01T00:00:00ZDate, lieu et thème de la cinquante-sixième session de la Commission économique pour l’Afrique: Note du secrétariat
https://hdl.handle.net/10855/49699
Date, lieu et thème de la cinquante-sixième session de la Commission économique pour l’Afrique: Note du secrétariat
Dans le présent document les suggestions que le secrétariat soumet au Comité d’experts pour examen. Le Comité souhaitera peut-être examiner les dates et le thème de la cinquante-sixième session de la Commission économique pour l’Afrique, qui se tiendra en 2024, et donner au secrétariat des orientations à cet égard. La date et lieu porte sur le secrétariat propose que la cinquante-sixième session de la Commission se tienne au siège de la Commission, à Addis-Abeba, en mars 2024. La Conférence des ministres africains des finances, de la planification économique et du développement peut aussi en décider autrement sur invitation d’un État membre à accueillir ladite session.
2023-03-01T00:00:00ZLes implications socioéconomiques des changements climatiques et les possibilités de tirer parti du financement vert : table ronde 2 : note conceptuelle
https://hdl.handle.net/10855/49726
Les implications socioéconomiques des changements climatiques et les possibilités de tirer parti du financement vert : table ronde 2 : note conceptuelle
Le présent document contient sur les changements climatiques qu’ont continuent de représenter une menace existentielle pour les pays africains et mettent gravement en péril la réalisation des objectifs de développement durable et des aspirations en matière de développement énoncées dans l’Agenda 2063. Les pays africains font partie des pays les moins à même de mobiliser efficacement les flux financiers permettant d’atténuer les effets des changements climatiques. Ils sont les plus dépendants de l’aide publique au développement pour pouvoir respecter leurs engagements relatifs à leurs contributions déterminées au niveau national et pour faire face aux répercussions négatives immédiates des changements climatiques sur les résultats en matière de développement. Pour assurer une relance centrée sur l’être humain, il faut disposer d’urgence d’un financement de l’action climatique prévisible pour faire face à l’urgence de la crise climatique et combattre la pauvreté et les inégalités sur le continent.
2023-02-01T00:00:00ZRound table 1: policies and interventions to foster resilience and reduce poverty and inequality amid global shock
https://hdl.handle.net/10855/49639
Round table 1: policies and interventions to foster resilience and reduce poverty and inequality amid global shock
Over the past three years, Africa has faced a perfect storm of three overlapping crises or shocks, namely the repercussions of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, the armed conflict that erupted in Ukraine in early 2022, and a series of severe natural disasters. Those shocks have pushed ever more people into extreme poverty and exacerbated inequality, both of which were pronounced in Africa even prior to the pandemic. Africa is falling further behind other global regions and now accounts for the largest share of the world’s poor, while high levels of inequality remain a persistent challenge across the continent.
2023-02-01T00:00:00ZRound table 2: socioeconomic implications of climate change and opportunities for leveraging green finance
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Round table 2: socioeconomic implications of climate change and opportunities for leveraging green finance
Climate change continues to pose an existential threat to African countries and puts at serious risk the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals and the development aspirations encapsulated in Agenda 2063. The Africa We Want, of the
African Union Between 2000 and 2020, Africa was responsible for less than 4 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions but the continent is affected more than any other region by the adverse effects of climate change, including the consequences of
extreme weather events, such as droughts, floods, and heatwaves; shifts in agro-ecological zones; erratic seasonal variations; and rising sea levels.
2023-02-01T00:00:00ZUN deputy chief calls for the Africa regional collaborative platform to scale up its transformative support
https://hdl.handle.net/10855/49507
UN deputy chief calls for the Africa regional collaborative platform to scale up its transformative support
On 28 February, at the sidelines of the ninth Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development in Niamey, Niger, Ms. Mohammed held an annual discussion with Regional Directors of UN entities representing the Africa Regional Collaborative Platform (RCP), a mechanism that brings together 26 UN organizations across the continent to ensure full collaboration and coordination of the UN’s regional assets, such as expertise, experts and funding.
2023-03-01T00:00:00ZCommission climat du bassin du Congo: un protocole normalisé et harmonisé sur les gaz à effet de serre pour promouvoir l’intégrité du marché de carbone et les investissements relatifs aux activités économiques résilientes aux changements climatiques dans les pays membres de la Commission climat du bassin du Congo
https://hdl.handle.net/10855/49406
Commission climat du bassin du Congo: un protocole normalisé et harmonisé sur les gaz à effet de serre pour promouvoir l’intégrité du marché de carbone et les investissements relatifs aux activités économiques résilientes aux changements climatiques dans les pays membres de la Commission climat du bassin du Congo
Les marchés de carbone ont connu une croissance rapide ces dernières années, même s’ils restent encore peu développés en Afrique. Le continent africain regorge d’immenses puits et réservoirs de carbone dans ses forêts et ses ressources hydriques - notamment dans le bassin du Congo- qui jouent un rôle déterminant dans la régulation du climat mondial et assurent toute une gamme de services tant aux économies qu’aux communautés. La forêt du bassin du Congo vient en deuxième position après la forêt tropicale amazonienne pour ce qui est de l’atténuation des émissions mondiales de dioxyde de carbone d’origine anthropique, provenant notamment de la combustion de combustibles fossiles. Pour autant, l’Afrique ne reçoit pratiquement aucune aide financière ni flux d’investissement pour les services d’atténuation qu’elle rend au reste du monde. La présente étude a été établie avec pour objectif de répondre aux défis susmentionnés et de faciliter l’élaboration d’un protocole normalisé et harmonisé sur les émissions de gaz à effet de serre (GES) visant à harmoniser les mécanismes de comptabilisation, de vérification et de déclaration des émissions de carbone. Elle entend promouvoir l’intégrité du marché de carbone, de renforcer les capacités institutionnelles et stimuler l’investissement privé dans les économies vertes et les économies bleues inclusives des pays de la Commission climat du bassin du Congo.
2023-01-01T00:00:00ZCongo basin climate commission: a standardized and harmonized greenhouse gas protocol to support carbon market integrity and investment in climate-resilient economic activity in Congo Basin Climate Commission member countries
https://hdl.handle.net/10855/49405
Congo basin climate commission: a standardized and harmonized greenhouse gas protocol to support carbon market integrity and investment in climate-resilient economic activity in Congo Basin Climate Commission member countries
Carbon markets have grown rapidly in recent years but remain poorly developed in Africa. The African continent is endowed with vast carbon sinks and pools in its forests and water resources, including in the Congo basin, which plays a key role in regulating the global climate and provide a vast range of services to economies and communities. The forest in the Congo basin ranks second after the Amazon rainforest in terms of mitigating global anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions, notably from the combustion of fossil fuels. Nevertheless, Africa receives almost no financial assistance or investment flows for the mitigation services it renders to the rest of the world. The present study has been drafted with a view to addressing those challenges by facilitating the development of a standardized and harmonized protocol on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that provides for the harmonization of carbon emission accounting, verification, and reporting mechanisms. The study aims to support carbon market integrity, bolster institutional capacity, and boost private investment in inclusive green and blue economies in Congo Basin Climate Commission countries.
2023-01-01T00:00:00ZFourth Africa climate talks ensuring a just and equitable transition and human security in Africa: building resilience
https://hdl.handle.net/10855/49100
Fourth Africa climate talks ensuring a just and equitable transition and human security in Africa: building resilience
he African Climate Policy Centre (ACPC) of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in partnership with the Climate Change and Desertification Unit (CCDU) of the African Union Commission (AUC) and the ClimDev-Africa Special Fund (CDSF) of the African Development Bank (AfDB) will host the 4th Africa Climate Talks (ACT!) as part of the build-up to the tenth conference on climate change and development in Africa (CCDA-X) and the 27th Conference of Parties to the UNFCCC (COP27). This year’s ACT! will consist of two rounds of regional dialogues organized in hybrid format. The ACT! webinar series brings together different perspectives and stakeholders to stimulate a pan-African discourse aimed at contributing to the emergence of an African narrative on climate change and development, drawing on lessons and experiences of civil society groups, academics, researchers, youth, the private sector and climate change negotiators. ACT! articulates opportunities that could be translated into policy options by African decision makers to build more resilient societies and economies, while enhancing environmental integrity.
2022-07-01T00:00:00ZGood practice in climate action in Africa
https://hdl.handle.net/10855/49165
Good practice in climate action in Africa
Africa is a diverse continent of 1.2 billion people, spanning 55 countries, and many different ecological systems, cultures, and economies. Over the past two decades, the continent’s average annual economic growth rate has been about 3.4%. Much of this growth has been reliant on climate-sensitive sectors such as water, agriculture, energy, transport, and tourism. But climate impacts in Africa have already led to loss and damage in key sectors and to critical infrastructure. COVID-19 has exacerbated these impacts, impeding socioeconomic development progress and increasing debt levels. Some estimates show African countries potentially losing 5% of GDP per annul by 2030 based on an increase in temperature of 2 degrees. Climate action must confront the vulnerabilities experienced on much of the continent among people who bear a disproportionate share of climate impacts despite contributing relatively little to global emissions (approximately 4%). The focus of this compilation is on projects where international organizations are partnering with national government and local stakeholders in implementation through funding, technology transfer, and capacity building. The report focuses on initiatives where national governments have partnered specifically with UN entities, often together with other international partners, local stakeholders, and the private sector. The examples provided are diverse, cutting across countries, sectors, approaches, and implementing partners. They cover successful practices in climate-sensitive sectors in need of urgent and scaled up responses: energy, agriculture, land restoration, water and sanitation, coastal restoration, tourism, waste, and transport. The report also identifies important cross-cutting lessons. While tailored and context-driven approaches are crucial to success, some takeaways emerge from across the full set that are relevant for further action across sectors.
2022-01-01T00:00:00ZMessages clefs: neuvième Conférence sur les changements climatiques et le développement en Afrique
https://hdl.handle.net/10855/48385
Messages clefs: neuvième Conférence sur les changements climatiques et le développement en Afrique
La neuvième Conférence sur les changements climatiques et le développement en Afrique, organisée sur le thème « Une transition juste porteuse d’emplois, de la prospérité et de la résilience climatique en Afrique : tirer parti de l’économie verte et bleue », a été accueillie par le Gouvernement de Cabo Verde du 13 au 17 septembre 2021. C’était la première fois que la Conférence se tenait dans un petit État insulaire en développement d’Afrique. En accueillant la Conférence, le Gouvernement de Carbo Verde a attiré l’attention sur l’urgence d’une action mondiale concertée sur les changements climatiques, étant donné les graves répercussions que ces changements ont déjà sur les pays africains – en particulier les petits États insulaires en développement. Au cours de la Conférence, les participants ont exposé les points de vue africains sur ce à quoi devrait ressembler une transition juste et une relance verte et ont proposé des cadres appropriés pour soutenir les pays africains dans leurs efforts de conception et de mise en œuvre de solutions dirigées par les Africains pour une relance verte juste qui favorise la prospérité, consolide la résilience et renforce la voix et le pouvoir d’action du continent dans les négociations mondiales sur le climat avant la vingt-sixième session de la Conférence des parties à la Convention-cadre des Nations Unies sur les changements climatiques.
2021-09-01T00:00:00ZNote conceptuelle: transitions justes en Afrique : passer de la concertation à l’action
https://hdl.handle.net/10855/49145
Note conceptuelle: transitions justes en Afrique : passer de la concertation à l’action
Une menace existentielle sans pareille, les économies mondiales continuant de dépasser leur budget pour les émissions de carbone. Les phénomènes météorologiques extrêmes sont de plus en plus fréquents, ce qui indique clairement qu’il faut d’urgence s’attaquer aux changements climatiques. L’urgence de la crise climatique signifie qu’une action concertée est plus que nécessaire. Pour atteindre les objectifs inscrits dans l’Accord de Paris sur les changements climatiques, la communauté mondiale doit réduire ses émissions de carbone de près de moitié d’ici à 2030.
2022-09-01T00:00:00ZConcept note: just transitions in Africa – transforming dialogue into action
https://hdl.handle.net/10855/49146
Concept note: just transitions in Africa – transforming dialogue into action
The world is in the throes of a climate catastrophe, an existential threat like no other, as the world’s economies continue to exceed their carbon emissions budgets. Extreme weather events are increasingly frequent, underscoring the urgent need to address climate change. The repercussions of the international community’s failure to take action on the climate are
increasingly clear: indeed, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), there is now a 50:50 chance that the world will cross the 1.5°C global temperature threshold in the next five years, meaning that global temperatures between 2022 and 2026 will be between and 1.7°C higher than in pre-industrial times.
2022-09-01T00:00:00ZRegional round tables “Towards COP27: Catalysing climate finance and investment flows to ramp up climate action and advance the Sustainable Development Goals”
https://hdl.handle.net/10855/49102
Regional round tables “Towards COP27: Catalysing climate finance and investment flows to ramp up climate action and advance the Sustainable Development Goals”
Ahead of COP27, scheduled to take place in November 2022, the UN system, leveraging its convening power, network of experts and influences at regional levels, seeks to organize a series of round-tables bringing together key stakeholders from public and private sectors, to address financing bottlenecks and to showcase both the success stories of private sector investments in climate areas and investment-ready climate initiatives in Member States. Public and private climate finance must flow at the necessary scale and pace and ensure the already stretched fiscal space of most developing countries to invest in climate action and sustainable development is not further overburdened. With a focus on SDGs 7, 9, 13 and 17 as vehicles for change, the round-tables aim at taking a holistic approach towards financing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the new global environment.
2022-06-01T00:00:00ZChangements climatiques et développement en Afrique : perspectives africaines sur une reprise résiliente face au climat après la pandémie de COVID-19: deuxième session
https://hdl.handle.net/10855/48371
Changements climatiques et développement en Afrique : perspectives africaines sur une reprise résiliente face au climat après la pandémie de COVID-19: deuxième session
La pandémie de coronavirus (COVID-19) a fait des ravages dans les économies, les communautés et les écosystèmes du monde entier. Elle a été décrite comme une crise révélatrice, en ce sens qu’elle nous a permis de voir plus clairement les crises qui se déroulaient déjà avant la pandémie. Les changements climatiques, l’extraction des ressources, l’expansion urbaine et agricole et la pollution ont entraîné la perte et la dégradation des écosystèmes et des habitats. Les problèmes de santé liés à l’impact des changements climatiques ne sont donc qu’un signe avant-coureur de ce qui nous attend si nous ne prenons pas à l’échelle mondiale des mesures concertées, urgentes et significatives contre les changements climatiques. La crise de COVID-19 est survenue à un tournant important de la crise climatique, d’où les appels pressants lancés par les citoyens, la société civile, le secteur privé et d’autres parties prenantes en faveur d’un monde meilleur dans l’après-COVID-19.
2021-02-01T00:00:00ZLe réchauffement climatique de 1,5°C : analyse des implications et des options
https://hdl.handle.net/10855/48413
Le réchauffement climatique de 1,5°C : analyse des implications et des options
Ce rapport spécial du Groupe d’experts intergouvernemental sur l’évolution du climat (GIEC) sur les conséquences d’un réchauffement planétaire de 1,5 °C par rapport aux niveaux préindustriels et les trajectoires associées d’émissions mondiales de gaz à effet de serre, dans le contexte du renforcement de la réponse mondiale aux changements climatiques, du développement durable et de la lutte contre la pauvreté. Les températures terrestres devraient augmenter davantage que la température moyenne à la surface du globe, et les journées de chaleur extrême aux latitudes moyennes devraient augmenter jusqu’à 3 °C pour un réchauffement global de 1,5 °C et jusqu’à 4 °C pour un réchauffement global de 2 °C (GIEC, 2018). Toute augmentation du réchauffement mondial est susceptible d’avoir des répercussions négatives sur la santé publique, les risques prévus étant plus faibles à 1,5 °C qu’à 2 °C en raison de l’incidence plus faible de la morbidité et de la mortalité liées à la chaleur.
2019-08-01T00:00:00Z