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The second edition of the Africa Innovates magazine, Climate Champions: 50 Homegrown African Innovations Tackling Climate Change, showcases the power of innovation from across the African continent to fight climate change. Jointly produced by UNDP and the CTCN, and building on the magazine’s inaugural edition highlighting African innovation to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, this edition of Africa Innovates tells the stories of 50 African climate warriors who have developed unique homegrown climate solutions.

The issue of how gender influences the effectiveness of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in tackling climate change is under-researched. This paper offers a systematic review of how gender shapes, and is shaped by, the interaction of ICTs and climate change. It explains why, and how, women tend to be more constrained than men from using ICTs in tackling climate change. Women are systematically disadvantaged in terms of control over and access to assets, institutions and structures, which effects how they adapt to climate change and respond to climate-related disasters.

2020 was intended to be a pivotal year for the global gender equality agenda and global climate change ambition. It was supposed to be a year to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action and to celebrate the start of the Paris Agreement. Yet, the unexpected and rapid spread of the highly infectious novel coronavirus has set in our paths a mammoth challenge. The ensuing economic slowdown and the postponement of the UN Climate Conference to 2021 threaten to stall the world’s commitments to climate action.

Incorporating fundable buildings sector Green House Gas (GHG) emission mitigation actions in Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)

Towards a zero-emissions, efficient and resilient buildings and construction sector

This report will deliver a technical desk study with focus on the potential production of Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) from MSW from unsorted waste in Maputo and Matola, the quality specifications, as well as the RDF production flow. Furthermore, this report will describe the technical requirements that need to be fulfilled by CdM, in order to be ready for using RDF as fuel for its processes.