Fourth Africa Climate Talks - Second Session | Events | United Nations Economic Commission for Africa

Introduction

The 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 (COP28). This year’s ACT! will consist of two rounds of regional dialogues organized in hybrid format. The first event will be convened in Mozambique for the Eastern and Southern Africa subregions and the second in Niger for Central, Western and Northern Africa subregions.

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.

The ClimDev-Africa partners have convened three past ACT! sessions, which aimed at stimulating a wide-ranging discourse informed by emerging African common positions on a range of pertinent issues in the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC, and at creating platforms for the discussion of African perspectives on key issues in the linkages between climate change and Africa’s transformative development trajectories.

Objective

The specific objective of the 4th ACT! is to interpret the science emerging from the IPCC reports and the resulting implications for climate action, energy transition, human insecurity, food security and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) in Africa. The discourse will be guided by the theme of the talks i.e. “Enhancing climate resilience for better human security in the Sahel region”, which will contribute to the tenth CCDA deliberations and shape Africa’s priorities at COP28.