When French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius brought the gavel down on last December’s historic Paris Climate Agreement, delegates embraced in the aisles, danced with their jubilant colleagues and celebrated long into the night. It culminated in a painstakingly constructed pledge to aim to limit global temperature rises to no more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. Given the importance of that deal, the follow-up meeting in Marrakesh starting on Monday might appear little more than an afterthought. Yet, as COP22 returns to Africa for the first time in five years, the continent’s negotiators are adopting a tone of hard-headed realism and steeling themselves for the vital task of implementing the agreement. For Africa, a continent that is uniquely vulnerable to the consequences of climate change, the necessity for action remains as urgent as ever. "Looking at the global financial landscape and the available climate finance, Africa has received very little. "Finance is a very impor...
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