NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 7 – The civil society organization Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) has faulted the current Green Climate Fund (GCF) model, noting that it has failed to take Africa into consideration.
In a statement, the lobby group noted that the current model has fallen short of addressing the priority needs of African countries.
PACJA argues that Africa remains the worst hit by climate change, yet they have over time received the lowest funding levels.
“The Non-State Actors in Africa express deep concerns regarding the current state of affairs,” said PACJA in a statement.
“Disappointed by the low levels of funding in Africa compared to the rest of the developing countries and that GCF funding has been trickling down at a snail’s pace, deepening the climate crisis and preventing the countries from embarking on low carbon and climate-resilient development,” it added.
The group also raised concerns about the GCF’s inability to offer scaled-up support to African nations and the major obstacles that they face in creating strong project proposals.
PACJA now wants GCF to develop a holistic, accountable, and transformative framework of engagement with African nonstate actors and communities most impacted by climate change on the continent, beyond the observer status space.
As an operating institution of the Financial Mechanism, the GCF was created under the auspices of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to support developing nations in their efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change and adapt to them.
