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SUMMARY:Adaptation Sovereignty: Financing a Just Transition for Adaptation in Africa
DESCRIPTION:Theme:   \nThis side event will openly interrogate Africa’s vulnerability to climate change\, explore the multiple facets of vulnerability\, causes and how best to address them in a just\, inclusive and equitable way; ensuring that humanity\, livelihoods and ecosystems are safe. It advances the urgent need for adaptive responses\, low emissions\, and sustainable development that delivers a resilient and prosperous planet for all. It recognizes that climate adaptation requires more than just technical fixes but must importantly drive systemic transformation that is anchored on justice including   recognitional\, procedural\, distributive and restorative justice to advance African-led pathways\, knowledge equity and grant-based finance for climate adaptation.  \nRationale/Background:\nThe vulnerability of African societies to climate change is structurally produced and perpetuated. The continent’s climate vulnerability is reproduced by a longstanding system that extracts\, exploits\, and excludes. It is the cumulative result of colonial legacy\, persistent export dependency\, and rising sovereign debt with forty-five of Africa’s 54 countries remaining heavily dependent on low value added or raw agricultural and extractive exports. The current rush for strategic minerals in Africa further drives the continent’s dependency and extraction. Instead of the minerals becoming levers for Africa’s prosperity\, their supply chain is already captured by multinational corporations that extract and export them in raw form denying local communities’ green jobs and economic prosperity while also exposing them to unchecked environmental pollution\, unsafe working conditions\, land dispossession\, and limited economic benefits.      \nFinancing critical sectors for climate adaptation including agriculture\, water infrastructure\, ecosystems\, health\, culture and heritage in Africa continue to suffer under the weight of sovereign debt burden estimated at roughly USD 746 billion. Already\, nearly 60% of Africans live in countries that spend more on debt servicing than on health or education.  Although Africa requires around USD 70 billion each year for adaptation\, only about USD 14 billion is currently provided\, with 58% of that financing delivered as loans. This creates an adaptation investment trap\, where each climate disaster increases debt burdens\, leaving countries less prepared for and unable to withstand future climate shocks. These imbalances also extend to climate knowledge and participation. Around 78% of funding for Africa-focused climate research is channeled to institutions in the Global North\, while only 14.5% reaches African institutions.   \nA Just Transition must fundamentally shift from an overfocus on technical adjustments toward transformation of the systems\, finance and knowledge hierarchies that produce risk\, inequality and vulnerabilities in the first place.  \nObjectives:  \n\nPresent the Just Transition for Adaptation Framework and Vision for Africa including its four justice dimensions; recognitional\, procedural\, distributive\, and restorative justice as an operational lens for adaptation policy.   \n\n\nProvide evidence of the failure of the debt-based finance model and make the case for grant-based finance understood as repayment of climate debt rather than aid. \n\n\nPresent local community evidence of vulnerability and how they struggle to use their limited resources\, indigenous and local knowledge to adapt to climate change where international financial support has failed. \n\n\nExplore realistic pathways and opportunities for the just transition in Africa to deliver effectively for both adaptation and development while ensuring sustainable prosperity for all. \n\nTarget audience:  \nCivil society organizations and networks\, policy makers and negotiators\, adaptation finance institutions\, Indigenous and community organizations\, researchers\, and youth.  \nOrganisers:  \nPower Shift Africa\, Robert Bosch Stiftung GmbH (RBS)\, Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre and Support Humanity Cameroon (SUHUCAM).
URL:https://powershiftafrica.org/fr/event/adaptation-sovereignty/
LOCATION:Antalya\, Antalya\, Turkey
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SUMMARY:Beyond Private Capital: Reclaiming Public Climate Finance on the Road to COP 32 in Addis
DESCRIPTION:Global South countries\, particularly those in Africa continue to face a myriad of climate and development challenges in a polarised world. They have to grapple with the rising debt levels\, shrinking tax base and unfair global trading system that leave them more vulnerable than before. At the same time\, Africa and other developing regions face a climate finance dilemma as deepening debt cycles\, shrinking fiscal muscle and the rapid decline of international public finance push governments to choose between essential development priorities and climate action. At this backdrop\, multilateral development banks and global financial institutions continue to promote private capital mobilization as a solution for the financing gap\, all this despite persistent concerns over affordability and equity in access to a financing model that probably prioritises commercial returns while transferring risks to the vulnerable beneficiaries. \n  \nMultilateral funds remain far below developing country financing needs even despite the adoption of the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG).In such\, developed countries obligations under article 9.1 of the Paris Agreement risk being diluted by growing appetite on market based approaches. On the road to Addis\, this session will critically examine the implications of private finance lead action\, identify equitable public finance alternatives and push for a unified position for Africa on climate finance.
URL:https://powershiftafrica.org/fr/event/beyond-private-capital/
LOCATION:Antalya\, Antalya\, Turkey
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