Africa's special needs have been kept alive at Cop26
Some Africa-specific climate crisis-related issues that could not be finalised or included in the 26th Conference of the Parties agenda in Glasgow, Scotland, earlier this month are expected to be back on the table when the global climate summit takes place in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt next year.
“We’re happy with the outcomes. In essence, we’ve restored trust among parties through a balanced set of outcomes on mitigation and finance. As the African group, we’ve also finally managed to launch a work programme towards the global goal of adaptation. This is an issue on which we’ve been negotiating for the past six years, with our partners not really budging on it, but we finally managed to put it squarely on the agenda at the conference.
In the same treaty, a major commitment was made by wealthy nations to mobilise $100 billion annually to help poorer countries tackle the worsening climate crisis. “Currently, the finance goal we have is providing $100 billion per year from 2020 to 2025, but we all agreed that this was not enough. We need to negotiate a new goal and conclude that discussion in 2025.
“We also managed to conclude the issue of common time frames for the implementation of our nationally determined contribution and, finally, the issue of enhanced transparency framework. In essence, the Paris Agreement work programme was concluded in Glasgow.”New issues had emanated from COP26, including lowering the targeted global temperature rise to 1.5°C, rather than the 2°C that had been agreed on in the Paris Agreement.
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