Climate Chance Summit Africa 2019

The Climate Chance Summit – Africa 2019 will take place in Accra from October 16th until October 18th at the International Conference Center in Accra. It will be a wide gathering of 1000 non-state actors fighting climate change on the African continent, including local governments, businesses, trade unions, environmental NGO’s, farmers, women and youth organisations, researchers,etc. It will highlight the engagement of Ghana and more broadly the African actors in fighting climate change. The Climate Chance Summit – Africa 2019 will take place in Accra from October 16th until October 18th at the International Conference Center in Accra. It will be a wide gathering of 1000 non-state actors fighting climate change on the African continent, including local governments, businesses, trade unions, environmental NGO’s, farmers, women and youth organisations, researchers,etc. It will highlight the engagement of Ghana and more broadly the African actors in fighting climate change.

4 formats

• 2 Plenary sessions with key people from the climate action in Africa.
• Workshops of the African Coalitions, reinforced by a call for contributions, to work on the advancement and the development of the sectoral and thematic African road maps (energy, mobility, agriculture, adaptation and water, access to finance, urban planning, circular economy etc.)
• Focus sessions to follow-up on the important initiatives in Africa.
• Side-Events dedicated to the activites of our partners : CoMSSA, CGLU-A, IFDD, etc.

9 themes

• Access to climate finance in Africa
• Developing African cities in a sustainable way
• Agriculture, food and reforestation in Africa
• Renewable energy and energy efficiency in Africa
• Mobility and sustainable transport in Africa
• Adaptation and Water in Africa
• Sustainable Building and Construction in Africa
• Education and Training on Climate Change in Africa
• Circular economy in Africa

Organisation of the themed workshops

These workshops will be the occasion to gather the subnational and non-state actors in their diversity in order to :

• Present 2 or 3 good inspiring practices from the call for proposals launched during the Africa Climate Week.
• Do the follow-up (evaluation after a year) on the sectoral road maps that were defined during the first edition of the Climate Chance Summit Africa 2018

Each workshop should lead collectively to the development of the sectoral and operational roadmaps, that are meant to create a favorable environment to action, to spread the strategic information and to reinforce the climate action in Africa. It would be thus important to take stock at the defined objectives in each road map, and at the indicators of the action’s advancement, etc