Tunisia to Participate in Second African Climate Summit
Tunisia will take part in the second African Climate Summit (ACS2), scheduled to take place from September 8 to 10, 2025, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Key Highlights of the Summit
- The event will feature numerous thematic sessions, with over 50 panels and more than 180 parallel events addressing topics such as:
- Nature-based solutions
- Technologies
- Energy
- Agriculture and food systems
- Urban planning
- Just transitions
- Green minerals
- Early warning systems
- Health
- Finance and investment
- Co-organized by the African Union and the Ethiopian government, the summit will focus on the theme "Accelerating Global Climate Solutions: Financing for Resilient and Green Development in Africa"
- The summit aims to strengthen the continent's collective response to climate hazards, with an emphasis on natural solutions, reforestation, and regional solidarity
Objectives and Expectations
The African leaders will use this platform to establish a common position focused on climate justice, sustainable financing, and technology transfer. The summit comes just a few months before the COP30, the UN's international conference on climate change, scheduled to take place from November 10 to 21, 2025, in Belém, Brazil. It is expected that COP30 will honor its commitments to Africa and its 1.5 billion inhabitants. The previous COPs have already led to significant agreements, including:
- A historic fund for loss and damage
- A just transition to clean energy
- Global adaptation goals
- A tripling of climate finance for developing countries, aiming to reach $1.3 trillion per year by 2035
Challenges and Requirements
However, according to the UN Climate and the Ethiopian government, for these advances to fully benefit Africa, COP30 must translate these commitments into ambitious measures to be implemented on the ground and evolving solutions that mark a new phase of action. At COP29 in Baku, developed countries promised to mobilize at least $300 billion annually for climate action, a amount still far from the $1 trillion demanded by developing countries, essential to address the climate crisis. For its part, Tunisia estimates its financial needs for the implementation of its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) at around $19.4 billion for the period 2021-2030. This amount includes:
- $14.4 billion for emission reduction
- $4.3 billion for adaptation
- $0.7 billion for capacity building Out of this total, Tunisia plans to provide $3.3 billion from its own resources, accounting for 23% of the necessary financing, while the rest will need to be obtained through international support in the form of loans, grants, foreign direct investment, integration into carbon markets, among others.
