Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
The momentum for global climate action is accelerating. Despite having contributed only a fraction of total emissions, African countries stand to be disproportionately impacted by its effects. Furthermore, the race to net-zero will affect the market for natural resources, financial flows and clean energy technologies in Africa.
The Africa Program’s Climate Change work examines the intersection of global decarbonization policies and innovations with Africa’s economic development priorities. We focus on Africa’s efforts to address energy poverty, achieve economic diversification, manage a new scramble for climate minerals, and finance a just transition to a low carbon future.
Sign up for our newsletter Back to main pageThe climate and energy policies of the United States and African countries should build on three shared interests—and address three strategic tensions.
The Carnegie Endowment is honored to welcome presidents from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region and senior U.S. government officials for a program on the margins of the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit.
“We have to be very clear-eyed about what is feasible, politically and socially.”
A compilation of Africa-based research organizations working on climate-related technical and policy issues.
Carnegie climate experts share their recommended reads on the global warming crisis.
Ahead of COP27, Egypt is bidding itself as a regional power in Africa and the Middle East in hopes of achieving some of its climate change priorities.
To achieve an equitable global net zero future, lower-income and under-electrified countries must play a much bigger role in deciding how we get there. Africa will be home to roughly a quarter of the world’s total population by 2050 and is a vital source of resources critical to the energy transition.
Join Carnegie’s Africa Program and the African Climate Foundation for a panel discussion covering negotiations of the JETP, progress toward implementation in South Africa, implications for other African countries, and the changing role of the international community in mobilizing climate finance.
Zainab Usman speaks with Sheila Khama about the recent oil price surge and what that says about the medium-term future prospect despite the drive to decarbonization world economies of through reduction of fossil fuels.
Join us for a special event featuring Carnegie Africa Program director Zainab Usman and her latest book, Economic Diversification in Nigeria: The Politics of Building a Post-Oil Economy. Usman will give remarks on the challenge of economic diversification in resource-rich Nigeria, followed by an in-depth panel discussion.
