At COP29, the focus shifted to an ambitious, needs-based climate-finance goal and the means for communities to implement adaptation, mitigation and a just transition. Securing an ambitious, needs-based New Collective Quantified Goal on climate finance in Azerbaijan has been a primary expectation from diverse stakeholders from Africa. This aspiration has been shaped by the struggles of people at the frontline of the climate crisis and PACJA’s experience at previous COPs, a majority of which have closed without any substantive decision on matters of climate finance. Baku seems cut out to deliver on the climate promise – the much-deserved climate finance for advancing the imperatives for just climate action through adaptation, just transition and mitigation, ensuring women, youth, indigenous peoples, smallholder farmers, pastoralists, fisher folk, Workers, and trade unions have the means to implement climate action
This statement consolidates the views, reflections, and communiques of over 3,000 representatives from diverse backgrounds who participated in various convenings hosted by PACJA and its sectoral-thematic partners, in collaboration with other pan-African institutions throughout the year.