Africa: New Climate Finance Coalition Must Prove Its Worth to Forest Communities in Africa

Africa: New Climate Finance Coalition Must Prove Its Worth to Forest Communities in Africa

At COP30 in Belém, Brazil, a broad alliance of governments, companies, Indigenous-peoples organisations and civil society announced the launch of the Scaling J-REDD+ Coalition, a global effort to accelerate jurisdictional REDD+ (J-REDD+) programmes, mobilise large-scale finance and channel it into forests, climate and livelihoods.

Fragile states at the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30): We are being ‘locked out’ of climate finance

COP30 President André Corrêa do Lago has said this year’s conference must put “people at the centre” of climate action. But a network of fragile states says more than one billion of the world’s most at-risk people are still being left out of the conversation.In a statement released on Tuesday, the Improved and Equitable Access to Climate Finance Network said that countries affected by conflict and fragility are being “locked out” of funding to a…