We’re pleased to share the presentations from the third annual regional workshop of the Africa LEDS Partnership (AfLP), which took place on the 27th June 2016 in Kigali, Rwanda.
The workshop, which preceded the Africa Carbon Forum,
brought together officials, practitioners and technical institutions
from African countries for an interactive and member-driven event, where
they engaged in peer-to-peer learning and collaborative planning around
LEDS in Africa.
Africa’s Climate: Helping Decision-Makers Make Sense of Climate Informationhttps://africanclimateactionpartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2016-12-05-at-10.16.12-AM.png508671aflpaflphttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/464c5d1932d38a8c7908028ed233271b?s=96&d=mm&r=g
Africa’s Climate: Helping Decision-Makers Make Sense of Climate Information
African decision-makers need reliable, accessible, and
trustworthy information about the continent’s climate, and how this
climate might change in future, if they are to plan appropriately to
meet the region’s development challenges.
The Future Climate for Africa report, Africa’s climate: Helping decision-makers make sense of climate information, is designed as a guide for scientists, policy-makers, and practitioners on the continent.
The research in this report, written by leading experts in
their fields, presents an overview of climate trends across central,
eastern, western, and southern Africa, and is distilled into a series of
factsheets that are tailored for specific sub-regions and countries.
Some of these capture the current state of knowledge, while others
explore the ‘burning scientific questions’ that still need to be
answered.
Catalyzing climate action in Zambia: Webinarhttps://africanclimateactionpartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Catalyzing-climate-action-in-Zambia-Webinar-and-related-resources.jpg640427aflpaflphttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/464c5d1932d38a8c7908028ed233271b?s=96&d=mm&r=g
Catalyzing climate action in Zambia: Webinar
This webinar provides a high level overview of the development impact assessment (DIA) framework used to support rural electrification projects in Zambia, as well as case studies from representatives of the Rural Electrification Authority of Zambia (REA) and the Center for Energy, Environment and Engineering, Zambia (CEEEZ), detailing the challenges and key successes of their DIA framework. This webinar also describes application of the framework to support Zambia’s Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) and other climate actions.
Understanding the impacts of low emission development strategies on
broader development goals is of growing interest to countries around the
world. These goals include reducing poverty, improving health and local
environmental quality, expanding energy and water access, and
facilitating gender equality. DIA is a process that explores
interactions between development goals and low emission development
strategies. The process supports informed decision-making by considering how policies and programs intended to meet one goal may impact other development priorities.
Climate Risk and Vulnerability: A Handbook for Southern Africahttps://africanclimateactionpartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/future-climate-handbook-1.jpg691975aflpaflphttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/464c5d1932d38a8c7908028ed233271b?s=96&d=mm&r=g
Climate Risk and Vulnerability: A Handbook for Southern Africa
The second edition of this handbook, Climate Risk and Vulnerability, was designed to provide decision-makers with up-to-date information, appropriate for country planning, on the impacts and risks of climate change and variability.
The handbook translates the latest climate change information in a manner that is relevant to decisionmakers to build knowledge in the region. The handbook also serves as a reference guide for practitioners within the SADC member states who are currently engaged in impacts research and development of both mitigation and adaption policies and strategies. The content has been produced by a team that comprises climate scientists, social scientists with experience in impacts, vulnerability and adaptation, as well as communications experts.
Please see below the presentations from the fourth annual workshop of the Africa LEDS Partnership, which took place on 4-5th October 2017 in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The theme of this year’s event was the integration of low emission development strategies into the development priorities of the continent as put forward by the African Union’s Agenda 2063 – The Future We Want – and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
With representation from 20 countries across Africa, the event provided an opportunity for peer-to-peer learning and networking among members on the three priority areas of the AfLP: energy, finance and agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU). Sessions included experiences of mainstreaming LEDS into national planning and implementation; discussions around engaging the private sector through the new IKI MPI project; updates from the Africa LEDS Project; highlights from the REAL service; and the current and future priorities of the AfLP.
Presentations from the fourth annual workshop of the Africa LEDS Partnership
The Africa LEDS Partnership (AfLP) has a broad membership from over 31 countries within Africa, which includes governments, civil society, and the private sector. The Partnership is working towards a prosperous, climate-resilient Africa, with inclusive green growth, for the welfare of current and future generations. It promotes low carbon, climate resilient development to support poverty alleviation, job creation, and environmental management in Africa. The AfLP is one of the regional platforms in the Low Emission Development Strategies Global Partnership (LEDS GP). See the 2017 Factsheet here
CDKN Working Paper: Aligning energy development and climate objectives in Nationally Determined Contributionshttps://africanclimateactionpartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/thermal-power-station-Ghana-credit-World-Bank-365x365.jpg365365aflpaflphttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/464c5d1932d38a8c7908028ed233271b?s=96&d=mm&r=g
CDKN Working Paper: Aligning energy development and climate objectives in Nationally Determined Contributions
Workers maintain the thermal power station at Takoradi, Ghana, June 21, 2006. (Photo by Jonathan Ernst)
A new working paper from CDKN argues that the effectiveness of national energy policy will be decisive for achieving the objectives of the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Emissions from the production and consumption of energy need to reduce significantly, but government commitments in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) fall short of the action required.
About half of the NDCs submitted do not include actions to reduce energy emissions and, when included, actions may not reflect all energy emissions or be consistent with national energy policies. This paper by Andrew Scott, Leah Worrall and Sejal Patel looks at how four specific developing countries are aligning their energy policies with their NDCs, or missing key opportunities to do so, and they raise questions about how governments could do things differently.
Uganda’s National Transport Master Plan: Potential for low carbon developmenthttps://africanclimateactionpartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Road-in-Kampala-credit-Kent-MacElwee.jpg20481356aflpaflphttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/464c5d1932d38a8c7908028ed233271b?s=96&d=mm&r=g
Uganda’s National Transport Master Plan: Potential for low carbon development
This report from LEDS GP’s Transport Working Group assesses Uganda’s National Transport Master Plan as a potential key candidate for accelerating low carbon development.
Transport infrastructure and services are critical to achieving developmental goals in Uganda, ranging from economic development and poverty alleviation to addressing climate change. This case study provides a situational analysis of the transport sector in Uganda, including the development and implementation of the National Transport Master Plan and other relevant plans, projects, and policies. The Working Group provided this country briefing at the request of the Government of Uganda.
