The African Climate Foundation, established in 2020, is the first African-led strategic grant-maker and think-tank working at the nexus of climate change and development.
Despite contributing the least to climate change, Africa remains the most vulnerable region in the world to climate change, impacting countries across the continent, undermining food security, threatening livelihoods, and displacing people groups. The African response to climate change must be uniquely African.
The transformation of African economies requires impact at a systems level to shift existing and future path dependencies at a national, regional and international level and across key economic sectors. We believe that climate change interventions have immense potential to unlock new opportunities for development in Africa.
To realise this potential we need to rethink development framing in three ways:
