Ein Jahr mit bescheidener regulatorischer Klarheit, aber jedes bisschen hilft (EN)

The report examines Africa's green technology transition in 2025, highlighting how tightening global trade rules, such as the EU's CBAM and the uncertainty surrounding AGOA, alongside the US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, have created economic pressures. It details multilateral outcomes from COP30, including the Belém Package's goal to triple adaptation finance by 2035, and continental efforts like the African Single Electricity Market and the goal to mobilise $50 billion annually for climate solutions. The text emphasizes the critical need for affordable decarbonisation finance and measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) capacity to prevent the marginalisation of African firms.

• African nations face significant barriers to scaling green technology due to limited finance, inadequate infrastructure, weak regulatory frameworks, and human capital deficits, which were exacerbated in 2025 by more stringent multilateral climate rules and external trade requirements.
• The expiration and subsequent short-term renewal of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) in February 2026 created investment uncertainty and disrupted supply chains, while Trump tariffs reduced the practical value of the programme for sectors like apparel.
• The EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), entering its definitive regime in 2026, threatens to price out smaller African firms and local innovators unless compliance is supported by affordable decarbonisation finance and shared measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) capacity.
• COP30 outcomes included the Belém Package, which committed to tripling adaptation finance by 2035 and establishing the Belém Adaptation Indicators and the Belém Technology Implementation Programme, though the conference failed to address the phasing out of fossil fuels.
• African institutional efforts in 2025 included the goal to mobilise $50 billion annually for climate solutions via the Addis Ababa Declaration, progress toward an African Single Electricity Market, and the integration of AI into climate services by the African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development.
• The US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in 2025 has jeopardised global climate cooperation and created resource uncertainty for the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage.

APA

Prempeh, S. (2026). Ein Jahr mit bescheidener regulatorischer Klarheit, aber jedes bisschen hilft (EN). Africa Policy Research Institute. https://afripoli.org/de/ein-jahr-mit-bescheidener-regulatorischer-klarheit-aber-jedes-bisschen-hilft-en

Chicago

Prempeh, Serwah. Ein Jahr mit bescheidener regulatorischer Klarheit, aber jedes bisschen hilft (EN). Africa Policy Research Institute, 2026. https://afripoli.org/de/ein-jahr-mit-bescheidener-regulatorischer-klarheit-aber-jedes-bisschen-hilft-en.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{prempeh2026ein, author = {Prempeh, Serwah}, title = {{Ein Jahr mit bescheidener regulatorischer Klarheit, aber jedes bisschen hilft (EN)}}, institution = {Africa Policy Research Institute}, year = {2026}, month = mar, url = {https://afripoli.org/de/ein-jahr-mit-bescheidener-regulatorischer-klarheit-aber-jedes-bisschen-hilft-en}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }