Trade and climate-resilient development in Africa: Towards a global green new deal

The document advocates for Africa to mainstream climate change into its development strategy to build resilience and transform its economies. It identifies key pathways for this transition, including renewable energy, green industrialization, and food security. The paper emphasizes the need for Africa to assert its agency in multilateral forums like the WTO to ensure developing country perspectives are included in global trade and climate dialogues, which are currently dominated by advanced economies.

• Africa must integrate climate change into its development strategy via specific pathways: renewable energy, transformative green industrialization, agriculture, food and nutrition security, climate change adaptation, the strengthening of development finance institutions, and active engagement in the World Trade Organization (WTO).
• Current international discussions on trade and climate change, including those at the WTO, are primarily driven by the policies and proposals of advanced economies, necessitating a bottom-up approach to identify and advance the priorities of developing countries.

APA

Ismail, F. (2022). Trade and climate-resilient development in Africa: Towards a global green new deal. Forum on Trade, Environment, & the SDGs. https://tessforum.org/latest/trade-and-climate-resilient-development-in-africa-towards-a-global-green-new-deal

Chicago

Ismail, Faizel. Trade and climate-resilient development in Africa: Towards a global green new deal. Forum on Trade, Environment, & the SDGs, 2022. https://tessforum.org/latest/trade-and-climate-resilient-development-in-africa-towards-a-global-green-new-deal.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{ismail2022trade, author = {Ismail, Faizel}, title = {{Trade and climate-resilient development in Africa: Towards a global green new deal}}, institution = {Forum on Trade, Environment, \& the SDGs}, year = {2022}, month = nov, url = {https://tessforum.org/latest/trade-and-climate-resilient-development-in-africa-towards-a-global-green-new-deal}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }