• News 30 June 2016 Climate Change Response Requires Finance, Cooperation and Participation Kigali, Rwanda, 30 June 2016 – Success tackling climate change and achieving sustainable development in Africa will take finance, cooperation and real engagement with non-state actors, participants heard in high-level sessions that wrapped up this year’s Africa Carbon Forum. “Development must simply be sustainable. Otherwise it is not development,” said Vincent Biruta, Minister of Natural Resources of Rwanda. “We can only meet the Sustainable Development Goals if we deal with climate change.”…
• News 6 November 2015 Sixth Emissions Gap Report Executive Summary Launched Geneva, 6 November 2015 – Existing policies and strong engagement by nations submitting their contributions ahead of the Paris climate meeting will limit anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2030, but a new climate agreement can encourage further action to limit global temperature rise to 2°C by 2100, according to a new United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report. Click to download the Executive Summary (English) and Executive Summary (French). The Emissions Gap…
• News 12 September 2015 9th Latin American and Caribbean Carbon Forum concludes Santiago de Chile, 11 September 2015 – The 9th Latin American and Caribbean Carbon Forum (LACCF 2015) concluded today in Santiago de Chile, where key business and government representatives from across the region discussed the use of market-based mechanisms and other forms of carbon pricing and climate finance. The Forum called for their inclusion as mitigation and development tools in the new global climate deal expected from Paris at the end of this year. Following the recent negotiations…
• News 27 April 2015 ACAD Takes A Look Back at Five Years of Carbon Finance After five fruitful years, the African Carbon Asset Development facility (ACAD) has wrapped up operations, and UNEP-DTU is evaluating the program’s achievements and lessons learnt. ACAD’s goal was to catalyze the growth of the African carbon market, a goal that proved to be quite a challenge, given the collapse of the global carbon market just after the end of the programme’s first phase. Yet through targeted financial and technical support, ACAD succeeded in providing essential tools that can…
• News 24 April 2015 High level Ministerial dialogue at ACF 2015 Marrakech, Morocco, 15 April 2015 - The high level ministerial dialogue of the Seventh African Carbon Forum was convened, under the high patronage of His Majesty King Mohammed VI, in Marrakesh, Morocco on 15 April 2015. The dialogue was chaired by the H.E. Ms. Hakima El Haite, Delegate Minister in charge of the Environment of Morocco. H.E. Hakima El Haite, Mr. Richard Kinley, the Deputy Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Ambassador Stephane…
• News 17 April 2015 ACF 2015- Private and Public sectors join in quest for market and finance opportunities Marrakech, Morocco, 15 April 2015 – Ministers from governments across Africa have renewed their call for a strong and universal climate change agreement with increased flows of funds, including through market and finance opportunities, sufficient to fulfill Africa’s development aspirations. With countries set to approve a new climate change agreement under the UN in Paris in December, African ministers stressed the region’s readiness and requirement for accelerated private and public financing…
• News 5 December 2014 UNEP launches first Adaptation Gap Report Lima, Peru, 5 December 2014 – Even if global greenhouse gas emissions are cut to the level required to keep global temperature rise below 2°C this century, the cost of adapting to climate change in developing countries is likely to reach two to three times the previous estimates of $70-100 billion per year by 2050, according to a new United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report. Released during a crucial round of climate talks in Lima, Peru, the first UNEP Adaptation Gap Report serves as…
• News 4 July 2014 6th Africa Carbon Forum held in Windhoek, Namibia Windhoek, 4 July 2014 – Climate change threatens to undo decades of earnest effort to develop Africa unless sufficient investment can be mobilized to spur sustainable development and make the continent more resilient. This was the message delivered to about 400 participants at the 6th Africa Carbon Forum, gathered to share and learn the latest about market and financial opportunities associated with the international response to climate change. The forum was opened by the Minister of…

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