African Civil Society Position for UNFCCC-COP29

PACJA’s  Position for COP29

Preamble

Securing an ambitious needs based New Collective Quantiftied Goal on climate finance in Azerbaijan has been a primary expectation from diverse stakeholders from Africa. This aspiration has been shaped by the the struggles of people at the frontline of climate crisis and PACJA’s experience at previous COPs, a majority that have closed without any substantive decision on matters climate finance. Baku, seems cut out to deliver on the climate promise – the much deserved climate finance for advancing the imperatives for just climate action through adaptation, just transition and mitigation ensuring women, youth, indigenous peoples, smallholder farmers, pastoralists, fisher folk,  Workers, Trade Unions have the means to implement climate action

This statement consolidates the views, reflections, and communiques of over 3,000 representatives from diverse backgrounds who participated in various convenings hosted by PACJA and its sectoral-thematic partners, in collaboration with other pan-African institutions throughout the year. Notably, it includes insights from:

• Multi-Stakeholder Consultations on Outcome of COP28 & Strategy for COP29: Marshaling Africa’s efforts and direction in climate action through multistakeholder processes
• Regional dialogue on loss and damage – access modalities and the Santiago Network on loss and damage
• Africa Climate Talks in collaboration with AUC and UNECA with a focus on securing ambitious NDCs (NDC V.3.0), May 2024
• Launch of the Six30 campaign amplifying the urgent need for energy access in the continent and the need for supportive financing and policy plans
• Placing health into mainstream of climate change discourse (Malawi, Ministerial convenings on the sidelines of ACS, COP28 & ARFSD convening
• Technical Working Preparatory meeting for Carbon markets conference in Lusaka, Zambia, June 2024

• UN CSO Conference on the Summit of the future, held in Nairobi
• Informal Africa –Europe climate convening on the sidelines of SB60 in Bonn, asserting the need to forge new forms of solidarity in advancing collective interests of Europe and Africa continents and the need for Europe to support measures that leaffrog adaptationn in Africa
• Africa Carbon Markets Conference, Addis Ababa,  August, 2024
• African Regional Consultative Dialogue on critical minerals and just transition, Johannesburg, August 2024
• Political mobilization for action through Multiple Parliamentary convenings in EALA, (Arusha) PAP (Midrand) and Abidjan on the Sidelines of CCDA XXI
• Conference on Climate Change and Development in Africa (CCDA XII) with a sharp focus on Adaptation finance in Abidjan, August 27 – September 03, 2024
• Global Peoples Assembly and the summit of the Future
• Africa Ministerial Conference on the Environment, Tenth Special Session, Abidjan, 3-6 September 2024
• Extensive country level consultations involving civil societies, non state actors and their Pre-COP29  engagements with state entities.

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