Twelve African countries have signed Article 6.2 bilateral carbon credit agreements with Switzerland, Japan and Singapore. The credits are real. The prices are low. And every tonne sold reduces the seller country’s NDC budget at exactly the moment COP30 will demand accountability.
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Africa’s $50B Gas Bet: The Economic Logic That Could Cost the Continent Its Climate Finance
Twelve African countries are building or approving $50 billion in LNG and gas infrastructure. The economic case is defensible. The climate finance cost — in DFI conditionality, NDC budget erosion, and lost carbon credit revenue — is not fully priced in.
Sistema.bio’s $53M FarmCarbon: The Carbon Credit Structure Turning Livestock Waste Into Clean Energy for Africa’s Smallholder Farmers
Sistema.bio FarmCarbon $53M — biogas carbon credit structure, farmer economics, and how carbon finance is funding clean cooking at scale in Africa.
Carbon Credits Are Financing Clean Cooking in East Africa — and the AfDB Just Made It Official
AfDB BEEP carbon finance for clean cooking in East Africa — how carbon credits fund cookstove programmes and whether the model scales.