Climate Change, Energy, Sustainability, Africa It’s time to create an ‘After Carbon’ agenda for Africa

Fatima Denton, is a member of the Climate Crisis Advisory Group and director of the United Nations University Institute for Natural Resources in Africa.

Following a year of climate-related disasters and extreme weather, COP27 provided another opportunity for experts and leaders to agree on the collective climate action needed to limit further global temperature rises. 

However, despite this being the 27th COP since the U.N. climate agreement in 1992, the world is still rapidly heading towards 1.5C warming, a number that should be considered an upper limit, not a target. 

And of course, it is those in the Global South who continue to suffer most as we near that temperature.

For a COP termed the “first African COP” by many, has it really delivered for the continent? 

It’s too early to be marking the homework just yet, and of course progress of any sort on “loss and damage” from climate change should be welcomed. Some of the language used by the United States should also certainly be commended.

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