Background

Africa continues to face disproportionate impacts of climate change despite contributing minimally to global greenhouse gas emissions. Climate-induced stresses, ranging from recurrent droughts and floods to heat stress, food insecurity, biodiversity loss, climate-related displacement and insecurity, are intensifying across the continent. Adaptation, resilience building, and climate-responsive development therefore remain central to Africa’s climate agenda.

In 2025, Africa advanced its unified climate agenda through the 13th Conference on Climate Change and Development in Africa (CCDA-XIII), the Second Africa Climate Summit (ACS2), and COP30 in Brazil. These events culminated in the Addis Ababa Declaration, a strong call for climate finance equity, adaptation investment, just transitions, and African-led green development.

COP30 marked a critical moment in advancing the global response to climate change, particularly in relation to the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA), climate finance, loss and damage, and the alignment of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) with long-term development objectives. For Africa, COP30 outcomes have significant implications for scaling adaptation action, mobilizing finance, strengthening regional cooperation, and ensuring that global commitments translate into tangible, locally grounded interventions. COP30 achieved significant but partial wins for Africa, including:

• Agreement to triple adaptation finance by 2035
• Operationalization of the Loss and Damage Fund
• Adoption of Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) indicators
• Launch of a Just Transition Mechanism
• Commitments to restructure global climate finance flows

Africa now prepares for COP31 and a strategic homecoming at COP32 in Addis Ababa (2027). Against this backdrop, the Post-COP30 Multistakeholder Workshop provides a platform for African governments, regional institutions, development partners, civil society, the private sector, research institutions, and communities of practice to collectively reflect on COP30 outcomes and chart a coordinated way forward for Africa’s climate adaptation and resilience agenda. The meeting aims to align African institutions and guide ClimDev-Africa, the AU mandated initiative for addressing the climate change and development nexus, towards these pivotal milestones.

Objectives of the Workshop

The overall objective of the workshop is to strengthen Africa’s collective response to climate change by translating CCDA-XIII, ACS2 and cCOP30 outcomes into actionable, coordinated, and financeable adaptation and resilience interventions, while planning for COP31 and COP32.

The specific objectives are to:

1. Consolidate outcomes of CCDA-XIII, ACS2 and COP30 to inform Africa’s forward strategy.
2. Define priorities and positions for COP31 and COP32.
3. Mandate ClimDev-Africa to lead technical coordination and stakeholder engagement
4. Strengthen institutional collaboration and resource mobilization.
5. Set a preparatory roadmap toward COP32 as a milestone “Africa COP”.

Key Thematic Areas

1. Translating finance pledges (adaptation, loss & damage, MDB reform) into accessible flows for Africa.
2. Building African capacity and visibility in carbon markets (Article 6) and just transition pathways.
3. Scaling Africa-led solutions in adaptation, renewable energy, and green industrialization.
4. Operationalizing the Africa Climate Innovation Compact, Climate Facility, and Climate Justice Fund.
5. Bridging climate science-policy gaps through regional data platforms and MRV systems.
6. Mobilizing youth, civil society, and private sector in shaping Africa’s voice.
7. Advancing African-led climate responses for sustaining peace and security.

ClimDev-Africa: Strategic Role for COP31/32

The meeting will assign ClimDev-Africa key responsibilities to support Africa’s agenda, including:

1. Technical support to the African Group of Negotiators (AGN) on GGA, finance, Article 6.
2. Coordinating Africa’s climate data infrastructure, MRV, and just transition metrics.
3. Convening NDC 3.0 stakeholder dialogues and follow-up to the Global Stocktake.
4. Facilitating the implementation of the Africa Climate Facility and green industrial strategy.
5. Designing systems to track climate finance flows and promote climate-smart investment.
6. Supporting AU coordination for Africa Day, Africa Pavilion, and host-country strategy at COP32.

Target Participants

The workshop will bring together various participants, including:

• Representatives of African Union organs and Regional Economic Communities (RECs).
• Development partners and multilateral organizations.
• Climate finance institutions and funds.
• Civil society organizations and community-based organizations.
• Private sector and financial institutions.
• Research institutions, think tanks, and academia.
• Youth, women, and indigenous peoples’ representatives.

Expected Outcomes

Key outcomes of the meeting are:

1. A high-level communiqué outlining Africa’s strategic direction toward COP31/32.
2. A mandate to ClimDev-Africa, detailing roles, timelines, and coordination mechanisms.
3. An agreed institutional collaboration platform between AUC, UNECA, AfDB, and Afreximbank.
4. A roadmap for stakeholder engagement leading up to COP32.
5. Preparatory steps for a successful, high-impact COP32 in Addis Ababa.

Conclusion

This consultative meeting provides a critical juncture to turn recent political commitments into action. By empowering ClimDev-Africa and strengthening continental alignment, Africa can lead decisively on climate ambition, resilience, and equity through COP31 and its role as host of COP32.