Africa

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Region: Africa

Africa:

Projects
95
Resources
155
Stories
297
Feature
24th March 2022
Close gender gaps and make Covid-19 recovery policies truly ‘green’    Spending plans for Covid-19 economic recovery provide a major opportunity to promote gender equality and environmental sustainability. Leading experts from Bolivia, Malawi, Nepal and Senegal shared their visions for change.
Event
17th March 2022
Webinar: South-South exchange on green bonds The Asia LEDS Partnership and Africa LEDS Partnership, in collaboration with CDKN, are hosting a South-South exchange on the growth of green bonds markets and overcoming challenges in Africa and Asia.
Resource
15th March 2022
IPCC Sixth Assessment Report: New factsheet for decision-makers in Central Africa CDKN – with the African Climate and Development Initiative, SouthSouthNorth and ODI – has launched a new series of factsheets that distil data, trends and analysis from the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report most relevant to Africa’s five subregions: Central Africa, East Africa, North Africa, southern Africa and West Africa.
Resource
15th March 2022
IPCC Sixth Assessment Report: New factsheet for decision-makers in West Africa CDKN – with the African Climate and Development Initiative, SouthSouthNorth and ODI – has launched a new series of factsheets that distil data, trends and analysis from the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report most relevant to Africa’s five subregions: Central Africa, East Africa, North Africa, southern Africa and West Africa.
Resource
7th March 2022
IPCC Sixth Assessment Report: New factsheet for decision-makers in southern Africa CDKN – with the African Climate and Development Initiative, SouthSouthNorth and ODI – has launched a new series of factsheets that distil data, trends and analysis from the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report most relevant to Africa’s five subregions: Central Africa, East Africa, North Africa, southern Africa and West Africa.
Event
4th March 2022
Register today: Empowering women in the green economic recovery from Covid-19 Register today for a side event of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW66) on 21 March, which will explore: how can Covid-19 economic recovery measures boost women’s economic empowerment? Featuring speakers from Bolivia, Malawi and Senegal.
News
28th February 2022
IPCC produces strongest-ever assessment of African climate evidence The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s Sixth Assessment Report AR6 Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, released today, provides the strongest-ever assessment of evidence on how climate change is impacting the African continent. 
Event
24th February 2022
Webinar: Guide to strengthening gender integration in climate finance projects CDKN, SSN and WEDO have produced a new guide for climate finance project planners. Watch the webinar from 8 March 2022 where the report's authors, interviewees and experts discussed key findings and recommendations.
News
22nd February 2022
Shifting narratives and practices to achieve gender just climate transitions CDKN has partnered with UNRISD and IDRC on a virtual side event at the sixty-sixth session of the Commission on the Status of Women on 15 March 2022.
Feature
17th February 2022
African world heritage sites threatened by sea level rise 'to triple by 2050’ Three times as many sites of sacred value, scientific wonder and natural splendour across Africa could face risks from human-caused climate change by the middle of the century, a study in Nature Climate Change reveals.
Feature
1st February 2022
Economic recovery from Covid-19: Prospects for sub-Saharan Africa Governments seek to return to pre-Covid levels of economic activity, and there is much discussion on how to build back ‘greener’. Lauren Hermanus looks at what is happening to achieve a green Covid recovery, and what is missing from current plans.
Resource
20th January 2022
Finance for Resilience: What are green bonds and how to encourage their growth in developing markets The fourth episode of the Finance for Resilience podcast unpacks the topic of green bonds and how to encourage their growth in developing markets.