Dr Richard Muyungi, Chair of the African Group of Negotiators (AGN), speaking at the 20th Ordinary Session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN-20) The 20th ordinary session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN-20) has convened under the theme, ‘Four Decades of Environmental Action in Africa: Reflecting on the Past and Imagining the Future’. The session aims to strengthen collaboration among institutions and enhance the im

BY SAADA MOHAMED Three weeks to COP30 in Belém, Brazil, the summit president, Amb André Corrêa do Lago, equated global climate adaptation to the first half of survival and a critical component of human evolution. In his eighth letter, Amb do Lago noted that adaptation can no longer be deemed secondary to mitigation nor an alternative to development. This tone was welcomed by climate-vulnerable countries, who hoped that the presidency’s progressive outlook would translate to

At COP30 in Belém, Brazil, adaptation is finally centrestage. This conference marks a political crossroads for climate-vulnerable nations, especially across Africa. Two milestones are on the line: the finalisation of indicators to track progress towards the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA), and the long-overdue delivery of the Glasgow commitment to double adaptation finance by 2025. For the Global South, this is a survival mechanism, a kind of Southern Cross guiding those most