Carbon Market Profile – Ethiopia
Ethiopia submitted its updated NDC on July 23, 2021, based on a current technical information, policy review and data, as well as an update to the Climate Resilient Green Economy Strategy (CRGE), Ethiopia’s primary strategy for climate action. The NDC targets are also fully aligned with the country’s flagship 10-Year Development Plan (10YDP) for 2021-2030. […]
Carbon Market Profile – Kenya
Kenya submitted its updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) in December 2020, seeking “to undertake an ambitious mitigation contribution to abate its GHG emissions by 32% by 2030 relative to the business-as-usual scenario of 143 MtCO2eq in line with her sustainable development agenda”. The country estimates that over USD 17 billion is required for mitigation actions […]
Carbon Market Profile – Rwanda
Rwanda’s updated NDC commits to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 38% through unconditional and conditional measures in agriculture, energy, waste, and industrial processes and product use; and will drive adaptation across eight sectors: water, agriculture, and forestry, human settlement, health, transport, mining, and cross-sectional; Rwanda aims to reduce 4.6 million tCO2e in 2030 against business […]
Carbon Market Profile – Sudan
Sudan’s updated NDC states her intention to contribute to mitigation efforts within the energy, forestry and waste sectors (Khartoum state only). This is in line with its national circumstances, development priorities and goals as stated in documents such as the Second National Communication (SNC), National Adaptation Plan (NAP) and Strategic Plan 2007-2033. Efforts aimed at […]
Carbon Market Profile – Tanzania
In July 2021, the United Republic of Tanzania updated its NDC which is aligned with the Tanzania Development Vision (2025), Zanzibar Vision (2050) and are anchored in its National Climate Change Strategy (2021) and the Zanzibar Climate Change Strategy (2014). The country intends “to reduce greenhouse gas emissions economy wide between 30% and 35% whereby […]
Carbon Market Profile – Uganda
Uganda updated its NDC in September 2022 based on the country’s Vision 2040 and the Third National Development Plan (NDP III) which presents an ambitious economywide mitigation target in 2030 of 24.7% reduction below the Business As Usual (BAU), a progression from the 22% reduction target communicated in the first NDC in 2016. The Uganda […]
Regional Carbon Market Profile
Eastern African countries submitted their revised NDCs between 2020 and 2022, with Uganda having made the most recent NDC update in September 2022. According to the updated NDCs, the countries will reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions by an average of 37% by 2030 relative to the business-as-usual scenario. This is a significant increase in mitigation […]
Article 6 Negotiations Handbook for Eastern Africa
After 2020, international carbon markets will transition from the Kyoto Mechanisms – governed in a top down fashion – to the Paris Agreement which is structured in a bottom up sense. In the future, Parties can generate and trade carbon credits through bilaterally governed cooperative approaches (under Article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement) or activities […]
Operationalizing the share of proceeds for Article 6
Institutional And Legal Framework Assessment In Eastern Africa – Synthesis report
The study presents a summary of findings on how member countries of the Eastern African Alliance on Carbon Markets and Climate Finance (EAA) are beginning to enhance their institutional capacity for engaging in Article 6. These emerging institutional structures and associated responsibilities build directly on existing institutional frameworks and capacities established for the CDM and […]