Meeting Title :
Protecting Fiscal Space and Addressing Indebtedness While Mobilizing Climate Finance
Venue: AICC
Date: 10 September 2025
Time: 90 Min. ( at 10:00-11:30AM (EAT) )
Room: M3
Summary
African countries face a complex convergence of crises: mounting public debt, shrinking fiscal space, and accelerating climate risks. For many low and middle-income economies on the continent, the cost of capital remains prohibitively high, while growing debt service obligations crowd out urgently needed investments in climate adaptation, clean energy, and sustainable development. Furthermore, African Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are among those more affected. They face uniquely acute challenges at the intersection of climate vulnerability and fiscal fragility.
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African Islands Innovations: Powering Resilience and Sustainability
Venue: AICC
Date: 10 September 2025
Time: 90 Min. ( at 11:30–13:00 (EAT) )
Room:
Summary
Africa’s island states are on the frontline of the climate crisis, facing acute and intersecting vulnerabilities from rising sea levels, shifting oceanic patterns, extreme weather events, and accelerating biodiversity loss. Despite these challenges, they are also emerging as hubs of climate innovation and resilience, advancing locally led solutions grounded in indigenous knowledge, blue and green economy models, biodiversity conservation, and ocean- and naturebased development strategies.
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High-Level Dialogue: Towards an African Position on Critical Green Minerals Diplomacy
Venue: AICC
Date: 10 September 2025
Time: 90 Min. ( at 16:00–17:30 (EAT) )
Room: M1
Summary
The global push for decarbonization and the transition to clean energy are accelerating demand for critical green minerals such as lithium, cobalt, graphite, rare earths, copper, and manganese—resources in which Africa holds significant endowments, estimated at over 30% of global reserves. This surge presents both opportunities and risks for African countries.
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Meeting Title :
Delivering Adaptation and Building Resilience at Scale: What African Leadership Looks Like
Venue: AICC
Date: 09 September 2025
Time: 90 Min.
Summary
Africa is on the frontline of adverse climate impacts and continues to experience worsening droughts, erratic rainfall, floods, and increased warming. These shocks threaten livelihoods, food and water security, infrastructure, and long-term development gains. Adaptation is urgent, but the gap in resources, technologies, and capacity remains vast.
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Shifting from Aid to Partnership for Investment in African-Led Solutions
Venue: AICC
Date: 09 September 2025
Time: 90 Min.
Summary
Africa stands at a critical inflection point. The continent is home to abundant climate solutions—solar potential, youth innovation, circular economic models, and nature-based adaptation—but receives only 3% of global climate finance, even though it constitutes approximately 18% of the global population. Most finance is received as debt, is skewed toward mitigation, and remains misaligned with the realities of Africa’s adaptation and resilience needs.
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Enhancing Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience through South South Technological Innovation
Venue: AICC
Date: 09 September 2025
Time: 90 Min. ( at 10:00-11:30AM (EAT) )
Room: M6
Summary
Africa is experiencing mounting climate shocks—excessive dryness, unpredictable rain, floods, desertification, and rising temperatures—despite contributing less than 4% of the global greenhouse gas emissions. All these extreme climate events erode livelihoods, food security, availability of water resources, and economic advancement in the continent, and must be met with timely, local-led and context-specific adaptation that is affordable and scalable.
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Meeting Title :
Collaborative Solutions: Leveraging AI for Resilient Agriculture, Energy, and Risk Systems in Africa
Venue: AICC
Date: 09 September 2025
Time: 90 Min. ( at 14:00-15:30 (EAT) )
Room: M2
Summary
Africa remains on the frontline of the climate crisis—experiencing accelerating droughts, floods, heatwaves, shifting rainfall patterns, and coastal degradation—despite contributing less than 4% of global emissions. These shocks are reversing development gains and placing immense pressure on food systems, public health, infrastructure, and water security. The consequences are especially severe for climate-sensitive sectors such as water, agriculture, energy, transport and disaster risk management, where vulnerabilities are deepening due to limited adaptive capacity and under-resourced response systems.
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