High-Level Session
Room: Tsavo (Plenary)
Affiliated Event Closed
One of three regional capacity-building workshops to support climate and SCP/circular economy policymakers to integrate circular economy interventions in their NDC for increased ambition and implementation. This will be achieved by building capacities on using the circular economy and NDC toolbox, co-developed by UNDP, UNEP and UNFCCC, as well as sharing country experiences, challenges, best practices and solutions.
Room: Lake Chad
Climate Activation
In this event we will explore innovative ways and technology how to maintain and increase agricultural production in the face of growing draught and water scarcity. We will use the example of the TIPA project in Senegal to illustrate how to move to drip irrigated agriculture using solar power to pump water, growing up to 3 harvests per year. Based on my personal experience as an ambassador to as an Ambassador to Senegal.
Room: Climate Activation
The event will begin with an Afrobarometer presentation showcasing our most recent (2021-2023) public opinion findings from 39 African countries regarding climate change awareness, as well as popular understandings of the causes and consequences. We will also examine popular understandings of who is responsible for addressing climate change and its impacts, and highlight the public’s call for an urgent response. The presenter will then discuss the links between citizen perspectives and the need to listen to African voices – including those of both ordinary people and their governments – in global climate forums in pursuit of climate justice. Two representatives of civil society organizations that are engaged in public research, education, and calls for action in the climate and environment space will add their perspectives on the findings and their implications for further raising awareness and understanding of climate change among African citizens, and for amplifying African voices in global forums. We will close with approximately 10 minutes of Q&A with the audience.
Room: Climate Activation
Pastoralism is the main livelihood in Turkana County, accounting for 60% of the population. Thus, Wetlands International, in partnership with the County Government of Turkana, has embarked on a Community Based Natural Resources Management (CBNRM) approach targeting rangelands. This approach helps the community plan their grazing areas into wet and drought grazing areas after which they draw a grazing plan on how to defer grazing of the demarcated areas for use during the dry season. The dry grazing areas target livestock that remain with women when the youth move to far areas in search of water and pasture during drought. The communities have organized themselves into CBNRM committees who have written by-laws that help them manage the rangelands, including having scouts who patrol the rangeland to monitor and check on illegal grazing. Wetlands International is supporting to improve productivity of 2 rangelands through a reseeding of 1310 hectares, benefiting 1461 households with pasture for livestock. This rangeland management initiative contributes to the community’s climate resilience needs through pasture regeneration and preservation. This improved rangelands productivity enhances climate resilient livelihoods and ecosystem management. At this event we will show a video of the project described above, followed by an interactive discussion.
Room: Climate Activation
The short film screening showcases impactful youth-led projects in South Africa, Southern Africa, and globally. It portrays projects aligned with Sustainable SDG 13, SDG 4 and SDG 17 emphasizing the urgent need for global collaboration on climate action integrated with education. The film features seedling (indigenous plants), gardening (vegetables), clean-ups (source to sea), planting trees (including fruit trees), science communication and stakeholder engagement. Seedling showcases a group of young environmental enthusiasts promoting and training communities on non-invasive plant species and gardening practices. FreeToBeYou (science communication) showcases creative and innovative practices to engage communities with accessible educational product materials on SDGs 6 and 13 using layman language and arts. The events encourage viewers to take action within their communities, promoting youth-led climate action, quality education, and cross-border collaboration in pursuit of a sustainable future. Following the screening will be an interactive discussion with the audience in a live talk show providing comments, insights and action oriented inputs on the showcased film. This will include sharing experiences from different parts of the world.
Room: Climate Activation
A growing number of African countries are building new railway lines for freight and passenger services. With most new lines being standard gauge, the efficiency gains in terms of speed and volumes and thus cost have large potential to lead to significant modal shift from road to rail. This shift alone, in the context of growing trade coupled with diversifying economies based on regional value chains, has significant potential for GHG emission reduction. However, a large part of this potential is unused if diesel remains the fuel of freight and passenger trains. If the new (and rehabilitated) lines could be electrified, with energy from hydropower and other renewables sources, the African Integrated High-Speed Rail Network (AIHSRN) promoted by the African Union under its Agenda 2063 could become the catalytic investment for the transformation of long-distance mass transport towards carbon-neutrality. African governments in most cases opt for diesel traction to reduce the large CAPEX of rail construction. Climate Finance providers have not yet invested in electric railway development in Africa, and in other world regions this is not a preferred sector, either. The event will engage Climate Finance providers on the possibility to cover the electrification incremental cost of 15-20%, presenting the example of the ongoing electric railway project in the Central Corridor connecting Dar es Salaam port with Burundi and 3 other landlocked countries.
Room: Climate Activation
Affiliated Event
The Secretariat will provide training for Party representatives on the new suite of ETF reporting tools that are currently in development. The training will be conducted using the test version of the tools that is available to those users nominated by their Party. Sessions will be conducted at 14:00 on Monday and 10:00 on Tuesday and Wednesday. Attendees at these sessions can sign up for further intensive hands-on training during the week.
Room: Lake Retba
High-Level Session
This closed Ministerial Session will facilitate the sharing of views and perspectives on priority issues for COP 28, in particular on the global stock-take, mitigation, adaptation, loss and damage, finance and just transition. Ministers will articulate their expectations for COP 28 and identify priorities for the negotiations necessary for a successful outcome, building on progress at COP 27 and previous COPs.
Room: Lake Kivu
Climate Activation
5 mins introduction about YOUNGO 10 mins panel discussion about youth in restoring biodiversity 10 mins panel discussion how we are mobilising local community for climate resilience 5 mins Q& A
Room: Climate Activation
UNEP-CCC and UNEP Regional Office for Africa and Last Mile Climate
Africa is home to more than 30 million internally displaced persons, refugees and asylum-seekers, representing almost one-third of the world's refugee population. One of these countries is Uganda, home to the largest refugee population in Africa. The session will focus on the main issues, needs and opportunities to include displaced populations into national climate change and energy policy and planning. It will highlight some of the pioneering work being led by Uganda as a progressive refugee-hosting country, including the country’s Sustainable Energy Response Plan (SERP) for Refugees and Host Communities, launched in 2022. And how the international community is working within this framework to build partnerships to secure investment for SGD7 in situations of displacement. Overall this session aims to highlight the topic of human mobility and displacement, place it further onto the radars of agencies responsible for climate, environment and energy and the respective local planning Ministries. As such, the broader aim is to discuss how to build more operational bridges between the humanitarian and environment ‘worlds’, offering a systematic means to replace the ad-hoc interventions that have characterized this topic in the past.
Room: Climate Activation
High-Level Session
At this session, H.E. Barbra Creecy, Minister of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries of South Africa and H.E. Dan Jorgensen, Minister for Development Cooperation and Global Climate Policy of Denmark will engage with African Ministers attending the Africa Climate Summit in an hour long conversation and receive views on what actions and support would be necessary to align collective efforts to address climate change challenges with the long-term goals of the Paris Agreement, including keeping 1.5°C within reach and ensuring sustainable development.
Room: Lake Kivu
Climate Activation
A growing army of young Africans are responding to the challenge of climate change by designing innovative technology and finance-led solutions, combining their knowledge, capacity and youth with Africa’s abundant natural assets. But this army needs technical support and investment to help them get going, test ideas and scale. FSD Africa and BFA Global have partnered to launch TECA (Triggering Exponential Climate Action), a venture builder supporting young entrepreneurs to do just this. TECA’s first wave, dubbed the “Blue Wave,” ran for a year from April 2022 and saw the formation of seven new start-ups addressing climate challenges in the blue economy. This action hub event will highlight the TECA team’s journey right from inception to solution launch, as well as illustrate entrepreneur and customer journeys from the perspective of one of the Blue Wave ventures. The event will take the form of a rapid interview between BFA Global (TECA implementer) and FSD Africa (seed investor) on the importance of investing in youth-led climate innovation, followed by a short video on TECA and a TED-style talk from Wezesha Farms and one of their clients on their aquaculture enterprise. Space will be reserved for audience questions at the end.
Room: Climate Activation
High-Level Session
Climate Activation
The event will discuss the approach of FarmWorks Field School - an effective approach of applying tech-industry's A/B testing method to farming. in our field schools, farmers divide their plots into 2, one using traditional techniques and the other using recommended techniques - a group of farmers meet at the school weekly to monitor crop growth and learn the impact of different techniques. Using this method, we've significant changed farmer behavior, encourage them to use more climate-resilient farming methods, while improving their yield and income. We will share the case study and propose ideas to engage the broader community of stakeholders to build partnerships and replicate the good lessons learnt globally.
Room: Climate Activation
High-Level Session
ACW 2023 Global Event
Join the Kenya Film Commission and Docubox for the Kenyan premiere of Between the Rains and a special Q&A with the documentary filmmakers and members of the Turkana-Ngaremara community.
Filmed over the course of four consecutive years during record low annual precipitation in northern Kenya, Between the Rains is a feature collaboration with the Turkana-Ngaremara community that seeks to understand the experiences of a childhood caught within a traditional culture that is a casualty of climate change.
Room: Kenya House