African Climate Policy Centre

Carlos Lopes proposes concrete measures to sustain Africa’s development in a changing climate

New Delhi, India 7 February 2014 (ECA) - The United Nations Under-Secretary General and Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has warned that Africa’s population growth rates could trigger serious competition resources such as energy, water and food and even undermine its development efforts if policy makers and scientists do not pay due attention to climate change.
 
Addressing the 2014 Delhi Sustainable Development Summit in India this morning, Mr.
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Good preparations strengthen Africa’s negotiating positions at COP19, experts

Warsaw, Poland 14 November 2013 (ECA) – As negotiators and experts prepare to enter the high level segment of the 19th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP19), which opened in Warsaw this week, the mood among African delegates here is one of confidence and determination to defend the continent’s interest at all costs.

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ACPC fellowship programme

On commencing its activities in 2011, ACPC recognized the need for a platform that would expose young African climate change scientists and academics to regional and global trends in climate change research and responses. In the same year, ACPC established a fellowship programme through which fellows in the following areas were recruited:

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About ACPC

Our overall goal is to contribute to poverty reduction through successful mitigation and adaptation to climate change in Africa and to improve the capacity of African countries to participate effectively in multilateral climate negotiations.

Our vision is “to make Africa’s development sustainable, inclusive and climate-resilient”. Our mission is “to influence, strengthen and enable the transition to climate-resilient development in Africa through responsive policies, plans and programmes towards transformed economies, healthy ecosystems and human wellbeing”.

Negotiators prepare for the 20th round of climate change negotiations

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 26 May 2014 (ECA) - During a workshop hosted by the African Climate Policy Centre (ACPC) for the African Group of Negotiators on the 12-14 May 2014, participants concurred that prospects of capping temperature rise to 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels is already looking bleak, given the pace of climate change negotiations. Unfortunately, according to recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) fifth assessment working group reports, upheavals await humanity should this projection come to pass.

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Carlos Lopes proposes concrete measures to sustain Africa’s development in a changing climate

New Delhi, India 7 February 2014 (ECA) - The United Nations Under-Secretary General and Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has warned that Africa’s population growth rates could trigger serious competition resources such as energy, water and food and even undermine its development efforts if policy makers and scientists do not pay due attention to climate change.
 
Addressing the 2014 Delhi Sustainable Development Summit in India this morning, Mr.
English

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