By UN Environment
African environment ministers have called upon their governments to create an enabling environment for investments in low emission development to ensure that nations’ climate actions become a tool not just for reducing emissions, but also for supporting accelerated socioeconomic progress.
Participants attending a high-level ministerial breakfast meeting on 15 November on the margins of the 17th ordinary session of the Africa Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) discussed the European Union (EU) and UN Environment Programme (UNEP) EU-UNEP Africa Low Emissions Development (LEDs) project, sharing the results, successes and innovations of the project as well as lessons on how it can be scaled up to unlock continent-level investments in national climate action commitments, formally known as Nationally determined Contributions (NDCs).
