Tag: Africa Climate Week

SOLCO event Africa Climate Week

Solar powering displaced populations

Electric cooking powered by solar PV presented at Africa Climate Week event focusing on the needs of displaced people

September 8th, 2023

TNA Stocktake event Africa Climate Week 2023

A stocktake: From technology needs to implementation

Africa Climate Week event stressed importance of needs-based climate technology and of anchoring Technology Needs Assessments in national strategies to overcome barriers

September 8th, 2023

Regional Technology Brief AFRICA

Africa is among the most vulnerable continents to climate change. By 2030, it is projected that between 75 and 250 million people on the continent will be exposed to increased water stress due to climate change. Enhancing the development, transfer and uptake of climate technology is a key pillar of the international response to climate change. Since 2009, the Technology […]

April 2nd, 2020

High-Level Climate Champions to Drive Action at Africa Climate Week in Kampala

The High-Level Champions for Climate Action of the COP26 and COP25 Presidencies have confirmed their participation for Africa Climate Week

February 20th, 2020

Palm oil plantations Uganda

Africa Climate Week 2020: Partnering for transformation

The first of 2020's regional climate weeks shows the way towards a low-carbon climate-resilient and prosperous Africa

February 7th, 2020

ACW 2019

Africa Climate Week highlights opportunities of national climate plans

The closing of Africa Climate Week 2019 brought focus on actions over declarations and continued need for finance

March 23rd, 2019

UNEP DTU Partnership director John Christensen during high level opening of Africa Climate Week 2019

Africa Climate Week signals opportunities and challenges

The high-level segment of the climate week focused on increasing ambition and attracting investments

March 20th, 2019

ACW 2019

Ghana kicks off year of ambition at Africa Climate Week

The provisional programme of the first regional climate week of 2019 has been published, linking Africa Climate Week with a year of climate ambition.

January 17th, 2019

Africa Crafts Message of Sustainability for International Climate Negotiations

Action on climate change and sustainable development together is the way forward for Africa. That is the top-line message that regional, public and private sector delegates will carry to international climate negotiations after a week of deliberations in the Kenyan capital.

April 16th, 2018

Africa Carbon Forum kicks off

More than 1400 delegates are gathered in Nairobi for the beginning of the Africa Carbon Forum to work towards achieving global climate goals and promote marked based climate action.

April 11th, 2018