Africa's climate roadmap to COP33 presented in Ghana — MyJoyOnline
In Ghana, the Chair of the African Group of Negotiators on Climate Change, Nana Dr Antwi-Boasiako Amoa, presented the continent's strategic priorities ahead of the next climate negotiations to the Committee of African Heads of State and Government on Climate Change. The plan covers the period from COP31 to COP33, MyJoyOnline reports.
Amoa said that international climate efforts are under political and environmental pressure. In his assessment, rising nationalism, conservatism and climate change denial are weakening multilateral cooperation, while geopolitical tensions and the global energy crisis have renewed international dependence on fossil fuels.
The group chair also noted that extreme weather events linked to super El Niño conditions are intensifying droughts, floods, food insecurity, displacement and energy shortages in Africa. He stressed that countries' current nationally determined contributions are putting the world on track for approximately 2.7°C of warming.
Adaptation and climate finance
Among the African Group of Negotiators' priorities is operationalising the just transition mechanism agreed at COP30. The group seeks to define governance arrangements, modalities and work programmes so that the mechanism becomes operational at COP32. At the same time, African representatives insist on preserving space for national development and nationally determined transitions.
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Separate attention is planned for climate measures in trade. The African side intends to counter unilateral climate measures and protect the continent's industrialisation, trade opportunities and economic development from arbitrary discrimination or disguised trade restrictions.
According to Amoa, negotiations on the Global Goal on Adaptation made no progress during the sessions of the subsidiary bodies of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Bonn. The group insists on developing methodologies and guidance that will keep adaptation among the key priorities and help assess collective progress. It is also seeking predictable public climate finance from developed countries.
A single cycle through COP33
The group views COP31, COP32 and COP33 as a single political cycle. At COP31, it plans to advance issues of adaptation, finance, just transition, loss and damage, transparency and emissions reductions, as well as launch the second global stocktake.
The strategy envisages supporting Ethiopia's COP31 presidency in order to turn negotiation outcomes into practical action, strengthen African priorities and build political consensus for formal decisions at COP32. The African Group also wants to resolve the issue of transitioning the Adaptation Fund to operate under the Paris Agreement while preserving its direct access financing model.
