Africa-Press – Ethiopia. African Union Commission Sustainable Environment Division Head, Jihane EL Gaouzi, said today that the solutions for the intensifying climate crisis are rooted in equality, innovation, and resilience.
The 13th Conference on Climate Change and Development in Africa (CCDA-XIII), which is targeted to serve as a key technical gathering that provides a key foundation for the Second Africa Climate Summit (ACS2), is underway in Addis Ababa.
Opening the conference, African Union Commission Sustainable Environment Division Head, Jihane EL Gaouzi, said the solutions for the intensifying climate crisis are rooted in equality, innovation, and resilience.
The conference is therefore essential to examine the best opportunities to transform Africa into a powerhouse of green growth and sustainable development, she added.
EL Gaouzi also emphasized the significance of the conference from scaling climate finance to building an adaptive capacity to advancing homegrown research and technologies, which is also a platform for both ideas and collaborative action.
On his part, Pan African Climate Justice Alliance Program Head Charles Mwangi stressed the need for pushing the structural reforms of the international financial architecture and demand full, timely, fair and accessible climate finance.
The Head further underscored the need for providing Africa’s common position and demand at the global stage, especially in climate finance.
“We must see progress across our direction. We must push for structural reforms in the international finance architecture and demand full, timely, fair and accessible finance.”
Mwangi added that Africa must prioritize universal energy access and clean industrialization.
The head also pointed out the need to stand together as a continent united by evidence, ambition and justice, noting that Africa cannot afford another decade of declarations without delivery.
Similarly, African Group of Negotiators (AGN) Chair Richard Muyungi said LDCs and African countries must assure the full operationalization of the loss and damage fund, with the global financial architectures reflecting Africa’s sovereignty and common priorities.
According to him, climate justice must be translated into jobs and access, food security, water security and resilient infrastructure.
“Africa is ready to live with a new mindset, one that views our forests, our lakes, our minerals, our Sun, our wind and our youth, not as problems, but as the foundation of the global solutions.”
The overall goal of the Climate Change and Development in Africa (CCDA-XIII) is to unify and present Africa’s common, evidence-based, and investment-worthy climate agenda that boosts resilience, promotes green growth, and improves institutional capacity for effective participation in global climate negotiations and the implementation of continental priorities that directly inform ACS2 and COP30.
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