The end of the UN June Climate Meetings (SB64) in Bonn, Germany, felt like an anti-climax. That’s because it was. But what did SB64 deliver?

Welcome to Power Shift Africa’s SB64 live blog.

If Africa wants to influence global adaptation outcomes, including the Global Goal on Adaptation, we need young people who can read negotiation texts, track agenda items, understand indicators, and translate global decisions into national and community action; in other words, Africa needs an adaptation generation.

Experts call for faster access to climate finance, stronger support for non-economic losses, and greater accountability as vulnerable countries grapple with mounting climate impacts.

The Bonn sessions are not usually a summit of headline-grabbing political announcements, but they remain a critical test of whether the world is serious about moving from broad commitments to concrete implementation arrangements; and for countries on the frontlines of climate change, that shift is overdue.

You cannot arrive at a climate summit, make a promise to the most vulnerable people on earth, and then fly home and pretend it never happened - Mohamed Adow, Director, Power Shift Africa

Bonn is often described as the technical bridge between COPs, yet the decisions and discussions that take place at SB64 will shape the trajectory toward COP32 in Addis Ababa. For Africa, this is a defining moment. The continent is increasingly united around a simple but powerful proposition; that adaptation is not a side issue, a humanitarian concern, or an environmental add-on, but the foundation upon which future development will be built.

What we need now is not just better metrics ­— even though useful — but a renewed political commitment to elevating adaptation as a global priority; one that puts the cost of resilience into practice and acknowledges that the adaptation needs of one country are the shared responsibility of all.

Adaptation advocates have not successfully dispelled its three major deterrents: removing attention from the core mission of climate response, which is reducing of greenhouse gas emissions; removing the label of adaptation as a ‘public good’ that is not an easy fit for private sector investments; and opening a door for liability and financial consequences for developed countries for limited adaptive capacity of developing countries.

The question of the supply of means of implementation for adaptation, including finance, technology, and capacity support, persists at the ongoing talks in Bonn.  

South Africa has declared a national disaster after torrential rains killed at least 10 people and destroyed thousands of homes across six provinces.

The declaration of the Africa Forward Summit represents a strategic opportunity for the continent to redefine its role in the global order, to move away from dependency to strategic autonomy and leadership.

This piece explains what the summit’s outcome on finance means for Africa in efforts to correct historical imbalances in global finance governance.

The UNFCCC has rolled out a new media accreditation model and is testing it on the June Climate Conference in Bonn. The model is presented as a technical reform and framed in the language of efficiency, promising fewer duplicate submissions, faster processing, and cleaner verification.

‍The high-level gathering on fossil fuels in Santa Marta, Colombia, ended without a unified outcome, exposing widening political and ideological divisions over how, and how fast, the world should move away from oil, gas, and coal.

Methane, responsible for an estimated 20% to 30% of the earth's warming, is almost thirty times more dangerous than carbon dioxide.

There is a quiet satisfaction, almost a collective exhale, in hearing the African Group of Negotiators (AGN) chairperson Nana Dr Antwi-Boasiako Amoah say it out loud. Not because it is new, but precisely because it isn’t.

We all knew it. And now, finally, it has been spoken from the centre of Africa’s climate negotiating machinery. 

We break down Dr Antwi-Boasiako’s thinking in this commentary.

After months of waiting, the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels will begin this week in Santa Marta, Colombia.

The event comes at a time of the largest oil supply shock in history, following the closure of the Strait of Hormuz amid the US-Israel war in Iran. The narrow waterway controls 20 percent of the global oil shipments. For many consumers around the world, its closure has meant higher pump prices, soaring commodity prices, and inflation.

Here’s what to know about the conference.

The Second Africa Urban Forum is an opportunity for countries on the continent to address inadequate housing challenges, vulnerable urban ecosystems, informal settlements, and restore ecological environments in cities. This piece details how Africa can build livable, climate-resilient and sustainable cities of the future.

The decision by the Green Climate Fund to establish regional offices in Africa fortifies the continent’s position in global climate governance and as a strategic hub for climate finance access and coordination. Read why this decision is also a big win for Africa’s civil society.

Nearly 2.3 billion people around the world still lack access to clean cooking. One billion of them are in Africa. But Africans are rewriting this narrative. Across the continent, governments are ramping up investments to improve access to clean cooking among their citizens. Read how this is happening.