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.
Africa’s Clean Energy Blind Spot: How Drought Is Destroying the Continent’s Most Reliable Renewable
Seven African countries generate more than 80% of their electricity from hydropower. As El Niño-driven droughts drain their reservoirs, the continent’s oldest and most dependable clean energy source is becoming its biggest liability — and climate finance is not designed to save it.
Africa’s COP30 Countdown: Which Countries Have the Finance to Back Their Climate Pledges?
With COP30 eight months away and African NDC updates due before June, BETAR rates five Tier-1 markets on whether their climate pledges have credible financing behind them — or whether Belém will expose a widening gap.