GCA at the Africa Climate Summit
It is only by adapting to climate change that Africa can reach its potential. Yet promised climate finance—which is necessary to underpin wider development goals—remains critically short of what is needed.
The Africa Climate Summit, co-hosted by the government of Kenya and the African Union Commission, will deliver innovative green growth and climate finance solutions for Africa and the world. Climate adaptation solutions and the finance to scale them are at the heart of this approach. They build on the outcomes of the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact held with world leaders in Paris in June 2023.
President William Ruto of Kenya, who chairs the Committee of African Heads of States on Climate Change, has declared climate adaptation as a key priority for delivering “Africa’s march to sustainable economic transformation and green growth.”
Join us at the Africa Climate Summit
Africa’s Adaptation Transformation – Doubling down through Bridgetown, AAAP and Investment Compacts
The Leaders Dialogue will serve as an action-forcing platform for new commitments to the adaptation agenda.
Mobilizing Africa’s Financial Sector for Low-carbon and Climate-resilient Development
6 September 2023
Villa Rosa Kempinski Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya (Hybrid)
Africa’s Adaptation Transformation – Doubling down through Bridgetown, AAAP and Investment Compacts
5 September 2023
KICC, Nairobi Kenya
High-Level Intergenerational Dialogue: Africa Driving Climate Adaptation Solutions
4 September 2023
Wangari Maathai Institute, Nairobi, Kenya
Parliamentarians Dialogue at the Africa Climate Summit 2023
4 September 2023
Nairobi, Kenya
Africa Adaptation Acceleration Program Partnership Forum Working Lunch: Scaling Investments for Adaptation Financing
4 September 2023
Serena Hotel (Frangipani Room), Nairobi City, Kenya
Community Dialogue: #DoubleAdaptationFinance: Make it Accessible, Flexible, Predictable
3 September 2023
Serena Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya
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Accelerating Adaptation Finance – Africa and Global Perspectives
In the context of the Africa Climate Summit, this policy brief highlights the need to dramatically increase the amount and efficacy of adaptation financing to Africa. This brief also spotlights the persistent challenges related to adaptation finance flows in Africa, and highlights priority actions for the global finance community to undertake to address them.
Strategy and Planning to Redouble Adaptation in Africa: A Review
This study provides a detailed review of the national strategic adaptation documents prepared by governments in the African continent. It examines the main characteristics of these strategic adaptation plans, their depth and coverage, and the degree to which these documents demonstrate a supportive environment to implement the most critical adaptation programs at scale for each country.
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Africa Adaptation Acceleration Program
Since 2021, the Africa-owned and Africa-led Africa Adaptation Acceleration Program (AAAP), has been the implementation vehicle of the vision of the Africa Adaptation Initiative, with proven results to scale adaptation. Co-designed between the African Development Bank and the Global Center on Adaptation, and endorsed by the African Union, the AAAP is mobilizing $25 billion in climate resilient investments by 2025. In its first 24 months, the AAAP has integrated adaptation into over $5.4 billion of investments, securing resilient development objectives across 27 African countries. President Ruto has announced that the AAAP is a key deliverable for mobilizing support for climate adaptation at the Africa Climate Summit.
