Africa contributes little to global greenhouse gas emissions yet bears a disproportionate share of climate impacts, reflecting deep structural inequalities rooted in colonial legacies, global economic asymmetries, unequal governance systems, and persistent finance and knowledge gaps. With adaptation needs far exceeding international finance flows, and increasing reliance on loans rather than grants, existing systems risk reinforcing debt, dependency, and vulnerability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This report argues that adaptation must therefore be understood as a matter of justice, power, and equity, rather than as a primarily technical response to climate risks. It introduces Just Transition for Adaptation (JTfA) as a framework for transforming the systems that produce vulnerability while advancing equitable and climate-resilient development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Grounded in African realities and perspectives, the framework centres four dimensions of justice: recognitional, procedural, distributive, and restorative. It calls for predictable and accessible grant-based adaptation finance, inclusive and accountable governance, recognition of Indigenous and Local Knowledge, and greater African leadership and agency in defining adaptation pathways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The report provides principles and enabling conditions for policymakers, practitioners, and civil society to advance adaptation that is effective, equitable, restorative, locally grounded, and aligned with Africa\u2019s development priorities.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Welcome to yet another edition of \u2018\u2018Shifting Power Quarterly\u2019\u2019 , this time produced in Bonn, Germany, as part of our coverage of the African and Global South agenda at the June climate talks. The analyses, arguments, and perspectives presented in this magazine are important because international climate negotiations often unfold in the language of targets, timelines, and technical decisions, yet beneath the complexity lies a simpler question: can humanity act collectively in the face of a challenge that respects no border, ideology, or level of development?<\/p>","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":7066,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[28],"topic":[32],"class_list":["post-7136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publications","tag-adaptation","topic-adaptation"],"acf":{"url":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Power-Shift-Africa-Quarterly-Newsletter.pdf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7137,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7136\/revisions\/7137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7136"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}