6 September 2022
Top 3 takeaways from Africa Climate Week
Dr Nick Atkinson
Chief Science Officer
4 min
BeZero’s Chief Science Officer Dr Nick Atkinson joined a panel discussion at Africa Climate Week 2022 alongside speakers from Verra, Standard Chartered and Wildlife Works to discuss the challenges and rewards that face project developers and nations alike. Read his takeaways and reflections on the event’s major themes.
Quality needs to be the overarching feature of future carbon markets
Measuring and tracking non-carbon benefits is a major, unresolved challenge
Solutions need to be scalable over a short time frame
What should the future for carbon and nature markets look like for Africa? That was the question posed to the speaker panel at this week’s UNFCCC Africa Climate Week event in Libreville, Gabon. Deceptively simple of course, it prompted a range of answers centred around the continent’s massive untapped potential to attract large-scale climate finance, with pretty much all roads leading back to the question of quality.
