West Africa and the global climate agenda

Brilé Anderson, Susanne Rhein and Daniel Acosta

No 38, West African Papers from OECD Publishing

Abstract: COP27 will return to Africa for the first time since 2016 to follow up on promises made in Glasgow in 2021 to limit global temperatures to well below 2°C by the end of the century as committed under the Paris Agreement. Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) enable each country to pursue a tailored approach under the Paris Agreement, with countries setting their own mitigation and adaptation targets with the aim of increasing ambition with each subsequent submission. This report analyses the NDCs of 17 countries in West Africa on some of the pressing issues to be discussed at COP27, namely the ambition of targets in NDCs, the financing needs related to NDCs and their implementation. The objective of this report is two-fold: to inform COP participants where the region stands on these matters, and to identify opportunities for the region in updating NDCs.

Keywords: Climate finance; COP 27; Global Climate Agenda; Mitigation targets; National Determined Contributions; Paris Agreement; UNFCCC; West Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F53 O19 Q01 Q54 Q58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-11-09
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