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The report summarizes a peer learning workshop held in Abuja on April 29-30, 2025, focused on designing a 'Country Platform' for Nigeria to manage Just Energy Transition Partnerships (JETPs) and climate action. It argues that Nigeria should avoid replicating donor-driven models, instead creating a state-owned, multi-stakeholder platform that integrates climate goals with national development, job creation, and energy access.

The report proposes the Reversing Deforestation Mechanism (RDM), a results-based payment system designed to scale up tropical forest restoration through jurisdictional agreements. Unlike existing frameworks like JREDD+ and TFFF, which focus on halting deforestation and maintaining standing forests, RDM incentivizes net carbon removal by compensating jurisdictions for carbon captured through restoration minus emissions from deforestation and degradation. The report simulates the potential of RDM to transform tropical forests into high-impact climate assets, highlighting its potential to generate significant revenues and carbon sequestration, particularly in the Brazilian Amazon.

This policy brief argues that South Africa's 2025 G20 presidency provides a strategic opportunity to integrate subnational governments into the global climate and environmental agenda. It highlights the role of municipalities as frontline implementers of climate adaptation, mitigation, and biodiversity goals, while identifying systemic financial and capacity barriers that hinder their effectiveness in Africa and the Global South.

This policy brief argues that climate finance is significantly misaligned with the needs of livestock systems in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). It advocates for reframing livestock as multifunctional assets capable of delivering 'triple wins'—simultaneous climate mitigation, adaptation, and socio-economic benefits—and provides specific policy recommendations for the G20 to unlock targeted funding.

The EU is making progress in solar energy and cleantech manufacturing, but the overall transition to climate neutrality by 2050 is slowed by a EUR 344 billion investment gap, continued fossil fuel dependence, and policy misalignments in agriculture and building renovations.

This policy brief examines climate financing mechanisms in Brazil and South Africa, focusing on carbon pricing, green bonds, green taxonomies, and central bank regulations. It argues that these two BRICS nations are well-positioned to lead the Global South in advocating for a reformed global financial architecture—specifically the restructuring of the World Bank and IMF—to ensure more affordable and equitable climate finance for developing economies.

This report by the Climate Policy Initiative and Convergence analyzes the enabling environment for domestic capital mobilization for climate finance in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam. It examines the barriers preventing local private investment and the potential for blended finance—using concessional capital to attract commercial investment—to bridge the financing gap for mitigation and adaptation projects.

Liberia's Third Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC 3.0), submitted in September 2025, outlines a revised climate action plan aiming for net-zero emissions by 2050. The document updates the national base year for emissions from 2015 to 2022, resulting in a significant increase in absolute emission reduction targets. It integrates climate resilience across multiple sectors—including energy, agriculture, forestry, transport, and waste—and aligns with the national ARREST Agenda for Inclusive Development (AAID). The plan emphasizes gender-responsive and socially inclusive actions, specifically targeting the needs of women, youth, and children.

This briefing by the Stockholm Environment Institute explores how development and climate financiers can scale up locally led adaptation (LLA) by leveraging complementarity between different funding models, building on community-led development (CLD) legacies, and integrating private sector capital.

This guide explains Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) as the primary vehicle for countries to implement the Paris Agreement's goals. It highlights a critical gap between current commitments (leading to 2.6-3.1°C warming) and the 1.5°C target, urging more ambitious 2025 submissions. The document details the need for $4.5 trillion in funding for developing nations and outlines the NCQG's goal to mobilize $300 billion annually by 2035.

This policy brief outlines strategies for Indonesia to secure funding for sustainable and inclusive urban transport projects, highlighting the need to overcome regulatory and technical barriers facing local governments.

The Africa Policy Research Institute argues that climate finance in Africa must shift from a narrow focus on large-scale infrastructure to a 'dual mandate' that equally supports decentralized, consumer-led energy transitions. The document asserts that while utility-scale projects are foundational, the most dynamic energy growth is occurring through off-grid systems and MSMEs, which currently lack the structured local-currency credit and trade finance necessary to scale.

This research paper examines South Africa's G20 presidency, marking the end of the first cycle of summits since 2008. It analyzes the challenges facing the G20's consensus-based model amidst rising populism and the US's shift toward unilateralism, while detailing South Africa's specific priorities for the Global South, including climate finance, debt sustainability, and critical minerals.

This briefing by RMI argues for the creation of regional financing ecosystems to bridge the gap between available clean energy capital and local project implementation. It posits that localized strategies, which coordinate regional banks, community lenders, and economic development organizations, can overcome systemic barriers such as misaligned risk appetites and deal fragmentation to ensure an inclusive energy transition.

FSD Africa expresses its support for the second Africa Climate Summit (ACS2) in Addis Ababa, emphasizing the need to mobilize domestic private capital and demonstrate that climate investment and economic growth are complementary goals.

The International Youth Day Solidarity Statement 2025, issued by the Youth For Tax Justice Network (YTJN) and the African Forum and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD), advocates for global tax and debt justice to support Africa's youth population. The statement highlights the contradiction between high youth entrepreneurship and a lack of decent employment, arguing that unsustainable sovereign debt and tax abuse divert essential funding from education, healthcare, and climate resilience.

The report describes a 'Futures Dialogue' held in April 2025 between South Africa and the Netherlands to integrate strategic foresight into climate and energy diplomacy. The event aimed to move beyond traditional, transactional diplomatic frameworks to address systemic crises through methods like scenario planning and Causal Layered Analysis, focusing on green industrialisation, transformative finance, and shifting narratives of African agency.

This report by the African Future Policies Hub analyzes whether carbon credits generated under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement should be eligible for deduction from liabilities under the European Union's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM). It argues that allowing such credits would mitigate the negative economic impact of the CBAM on African exporters, retain climate finance within African borders, and provide policy flexibility to host governments, while proposing specific design measures to prevent carbon leakage and ensure credit integrity.

The report proposes a worker-centred alternative financing framework for South Africa's just transition to a low-carbon economy. It argues that the existing Just Energy Transition Investment Plan (JET-IP) over-relies on private funding and profit-driven models, which may fail to deliver social justice or sufficient green industrialisation. The proposed framework integrates worker demands with promotional fiscal and monetary policies and the reform of Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) to ensure the transition is treated as a public good.

This report by the Institute for Economic Justice (IEJ) proposes a worker-centred alternative financing framework for South Africa's just transition to a low-carbon economy. It argues that existing mechanisms, such as the Just Energy Transition Investment Plan (JET-IP), rely too heavily on private sector funding and profit-driven models, which risk neglecting socioeconomic rights and worker protections. The IEJ advocates for a holistic macroeconomic shift involving promotional fiscal and monetary policies, the creation of a Climate Response Fund (CRF), and the realignment of Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) to prioritise public goods and job creation over profit.