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Thread 🧵 | Loss & Damage, Extreme Events, and Why Africa Must Always Be Prepared
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Recent flooding across Southern Africa has once again exposed how quickly climate shocks can overwhelm communities, infrastructure, and public systems.
Over the past 18–24 months, the climate finance landscape has shifted.
Funding has not disappeared.
But the threshold for what gets funded has changed.
Across many initiatives, projects are stalling during assessment. 🧵
Not because the ideas are weak
But because the way projects are structured no longer aligns with how funders evaluate them.
We are seeing three consistent pressure points:
• economic logic
• implementation credibility
• risk and delivery frameworks
We are convening a small practitioner session to unpack this in a practical way.
Climate Finance Masterclass
Designing Fundable Climate Projects in 2026
31 March | Online
Limited cohort
Details:
africancentre.org/gela
This is increasingly evident in how facilities such as the Green Climate Fund and Adaptation Fund assess proposals.
The question is no longer just:
“Is this a strong idea?”
But:
“Can this be delivered credibly, at scale, and with acceptable risk?”
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Preparedness today must go beyond early warning systems and infrastructure.
It also means institutional and financial readiness to access, structure, & deploy Loss and Damage support when shocks occur.
#LossAndDamage
#ClimateCrisis
#AdaptationFinance
#ExtremeWeather
#Africa
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For African countries, extreme climate events trigger cascading effects: fiscal strain, delayed development, rising debt, and deepened vulnerability.
Without predictable support, recovery itself becomes fragile.
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This is exactly why the Loss and Damage Fund matters.
Not as a symbolic outcome of global negotiations, but as a mechanism to respond when adaptation limits are reached and recovery costs overwhelm national capacity.
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These floods are not anomalies.
They are part of a pattern of more frequent and more intense climate extremes.
For many countries, the crisis is no longer adaptation planning.
It is adaptation response.
Kicking off the year by empowering professionals working on Africa’s green economy and just transition.
GELA | February programmes
5–6 Feb & 19–20 Feb
africancentre.org/gela
What do the COP30 and G20 outcomes mean for Africa’s transition?
Join our webinar on 4 Dec (14:00 SAST) as @MaoAmis breaks down the key decisions, climate finance signals, and what Africa must prioritise next.
Register: africancentre.org/events/
#COP30 #G20 #AfriCGE
Thread 🧵 | COP30 Reflections from AfriCGE’s Day 5 Events
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On Day 6 at #COP30, reflecting on two powerful sessions AfriCGE convened yesterday on Day 5.
Both centred one truth: Care and community leadership drive a Just Transition. #JustTransition #CareEconomy #ClimateAction
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Youth leader @KobusingeRose1: Argued that men need to be part of the conversation about #care, it’s not just the responsibility of women.
#YouthInClimate #WomenLead #CareEconomy
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Shamiela Reid: Women are innovators, but they are not prioritised for #investment.
Care. Community. Justice.
Africa’s transition must be people-centred and gender-responsive.
#SIT #Africge #COP30 #ClimateAction
Our Executive Director @MaoAmis is in Nairobi attending an important expert workshop which aims to set up a Green Economy Observatory (GEO-Africa). This is a critical initiative by @arin_africa to monitor progress in the green economy in Africa.
Centre for Green Economy retweeted
#Mentorship: 4.5yrs ago, @DamalieKatrah slid into my Twitter DM🤣 after her BA degree at @WitsUniversity. I mentored her at @afrigreen_ to complete a Masters. After a stint with ILO in Geneva, she is back. This week she is part of my team at the Africa Climate Summit in Addis💪🏽
