CLIMATE LEGAL “LOSS AND DAMAGE: THE ROAD TO COP27, AN AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE” (2022)
This report traces some of the key negotiation points and issues relating to loss and damage, with a focus on loss and damage finance in the lead up to COP27. It discusses the loss and damage landscape, including some of the key issues likely to be raised at COP27 with a view to exploring African perspectives and positions on this issue and related opportunities.
CLIMATE LEGAL “LOSS AND DAMAGE FINANCIAL OPTIONS: A PERSPECTIVE FOR AFRICAN COUNTRIES” (2022)
This note sets out the key potential mechanisms that could be used to finance loss and damage. It does so by providing a high-level overview of the instrument, together with a summary of its advantages and disadvantages. It also provides an overview of potential innovative sources of funding. It is designed to be read with the report “Loss and Damage: The Road to COP27, an African Perspective” (2022).
KAS DIALOGUE OUTCOMES REPORT “APPROPRIATE CARBON PRICING IN LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES AND EMERGING ECONOMIES” (2022)
This report captures the discussion of a workshop on making carbon pricing appropriate, inclusive and beneficial in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Emerging Economies. It engages with conventional and unconventional notions of carbon pricing, and challenges and benefits unique to LDCs and Emerging economies.
SAIIA “THE ROAD TO COP 27: AFRICA’S ADAPTATION FINANCE AGENDA” (2022)
This note reflects on recent developments in, and the importance of adaptation finance in 2022.
SAIIA REPORT “EXPLORING THE POTENTIAL ROLE OF THE IMF IN SUPPORTING SOUTH AFRICA’S JUST TRANSITION” (2022)
This report engages with how the IMF is seeking to respond to climate change within its mandate and how it could potentially support South Africa’s Just Transition in doing so.
KAS REPORT “CLIMATE LITIGATION ON THE AFRICAN CONTINENT” (2022)
This report provides examples of climate litigation in Africa, addresses some of the reasons it may not have proliferated to date and reflects on its potential future on the continent.
SAIIA OCCASIONAL PAPER “IMPLICATIONS OF COVID19 FOR CLIMATE FINANCE IN AFRICA” (2021)
This occasional paper reflects on the impacts of COVID-19 on climate finance and how governments and financial institutions have responded to the challenge.
SAIIA DISCUSSION PAPER “AN AFRICAN CLIMATE FINANCE AGENDA FOR COP26” (2021)
The climate finance landscape is both wide and deep and is driven by a number of inter-related and complex considerations. This discussion paper reflects on the outcomes of a series of workshops held on the topic of a potential African Climate Finance Agenda for COP26.
KAS REPORT “CARBON PRICING IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA” (2020)
This report describes traditional notions of carbon pricing including its risks and benefits, engages with African country appetite to implement domestic carbon pricing initiatives, and explores potential “unconventional” approaches to carbon pricing that could be better suited to national circumstances.
KAS POLICY BRIEF: “UPDATING AFRICAN NDCS IN TIMES OF COVID-19 - LOST MOMENTUM?”(2020)
The review and update of African NDCs is at risk as a result of a lack of finances and pandemic restrictions and connectivity challenges which hamper the required specialist input and stakeholder engagement processes.
UNEP “CARBON PRICING APPROACHES IN EAST AND SOUTHERN AFRICA” (2019)
This report submitted under the Collaborative Instruments for Ambitious Climate Action (CI-ACA), outlines national intentions towards domestic carbon pricing and how they have positioned their contributions towards the goals set out in the Paris Agreement.
CARBON TAX IN SOUTH AFRICA” BY M PARKER, A GILDER AND O RUMBLE (LEXIS NEXIS)
This loose-leaf book is a theoretical and practical guide to the new Carbon Tax Act 15 of 2019 and is likely to be published towards the end of 2020. The authors are also working on a shorter guide to the Carbon Tax, to be published in the intervening period with Lexis Nexis.
Climate and Carbon Law Review 2019 “Evolving African Climate Change Law and Regulation"
This Special Issue of CCLR, drafted primarily by African legal practitioners and scholars and with Andrew Gilder and Olivia as guest editors, directly engages with how a number of African countries have sought to address climate change at a national level. It does so by providing a limited overview of, and critical reflection on, recent developments in climate change legislation and regulation in the region.
Climate Change Law and Governance
Andrew and Olivia are co-editors and co-authors of South Africa’s first treatise on Climate Change Law and Governance. The book provides a comprehensive analysis of climate change in South Africa, the relevant laws and policies and their intersection with international governance structures. It can be accessed from Juta, and is available as an updateable loose-leaf format and online.
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