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Outdoor air quality funding to sub-Saharan Africa collapsed by 91% in just one year, falling from $129 million in 2022 to a mere $11.8 million in 2023. Photo: File
AFRICAN CLIMATE FINANCE

Reduce Africa’s dependency on climate aid finance to ensure a sustainable future

Digital sustainable finance is key to mobilising private funding as Africa’s climate transition faces a major hurdle with aid often as loans increasing debt

  • Neo Letswalo
6 min read
Fadhel Kaboub, a senior adviser at think tank Power Shift Africa.
CARBON MARKETS

Unified African voice needed at COP29

The continent must also ignore the dangled carrot of small bits of money for carbon forests or just transitions, said Fadhel Kaboub, a senior adviser at Power Shift Africa

  • Ozayr Patel
5 min read
Vulnerable village: The residents of the Scotland informal settlement in Tlhabologang, near Coligny in North West, like many other villages on the continent, is at risk from the climate crisis. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy
CARBON BRIEF

COP26 touted to resolve long standing issues on climate debt

Only 16% of losses in South Africa from weather-related disasters in the past four decades were covered by insurers, leaving governments and communities unable to build back

  • Tunicia Phillips
3 min read