Climate Chance Conference Africa 2023
Yaounde, Cameroon
The Climate Chance Association brought together on the 23rd and 24th of October 2023 in Yaounde, at the Institut Français in Cameroon, 800 African actors from the "climate community": high-level personalities, experts, actors in the field, representatives of local governments, businesses and organised civil society.
The Climate Chance Conference Africa 2023 is part of UN-Habitat’s World Urban Campaign (WUC).
A major event on the international climate agenda
Among the high-level speakers
Special Guest: Yannick Noah, Chief of Etourdi Village
Célestine Ketcha Courtès, Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Cameroon
Georges Elanga Obam, Minister of Decentralization and Local Development of Cameroon
Ronan Dantec, President of the Climate Chance Association
Thierry Marchand, French Ambassador to Cameroon
Maimunah Mohd Sharif, Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN‐Habitat) – video
Walters Tubua, Head of Regional Collaboration Centre Lomé, UNFCCC
Anne Barre, Climate and Gender Policy Coordinator, WECF (Women Engage for a Common Future)
Silenou Blondel, Executive Director, YVE Cameroon (Young Volunteers for the Environment)
Augustin Tamba, President of Communes et Villes Unies du Cameroun (CVUC) and Mayor of Yaounde 7
Alassane Guissé, Deputy Mayor in charge of decentralized cooperation, City of Nantes
Virginie Dago, Director, AFD Cameroon
Céline Papin, Deputy Mayor of Bordeaux in charge of territorial, European and international cooperation, higher education and research
Vincent Kitio, Director, Urban Energy Unit, UN-Habitat
Sevidzem Ernestine Leikeki, Founder of Cameroon Gender and Environment Watch (CAMGEW)
Stéphanie Njiomo, Ambassador for the Global Pact for the Environment in Cameroon and Central Africa
Gérard Ntchouabia, Chairman of the Association for Renewable Energies in Cameroon (ACER), Publication Director of the “Planète Verte Infos” magazine, Vice-Chairman of the Technical Committee CT19, New and Renewable Energies of ANOR Cameroon
Luc Gnacadja, Former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
Constance Koukoui Adjolohoun, Head of the Geographic and Thematic Coordination Department, Climate & Gender Coordinator, Cités Unies France
Emmanuel Seck, Executive Director, Enda Energie
Gisele Mpans, Mayor of Doumé
2 days on the theme of “Sustainable Habitats and Climate Change in Africa”
This conference will mobilise a variety of actors from across the African continent around the theme of sustainable, accessible and inclusive living, a key topic at the heart of local climate action.
The housing sector is very dynamic in Cameroon, the country committed even before the Paris Agreement in 2015, to the integration of energy efficiency and resource conservation measures into the construction sector.
The Conference #CCCA2023 fits into the international climate agenda as a decisive moment in Africa for accelerating the implementation of adaptation and mitigation actions, in particular for housing-related sectors, notably with UN Habitat’s Urban October and the World Urban Forum WUF12 event to be held in 2024. The event will also be held a few weeks ahead of COP28 in Dubai, which is eagerly awaited with the 1st Global Stocktake of the Paris Agreement.
Bringing together non-state actors in all their diversity, the #CCCA2023 event is expected to be one of the continent’s major climate action events. highlighting their actions, projects, and solutions – particularly in the field of housing – to the forefront of the international stage, notably through a vast call for contributions launched ahead of the event.
At the end of the conference, a deliverable will be produced, a summary and advocacy document based on analyses from the Observatory for Climate Action in Africa and outputs from the sessions held during the event: The Yaounde Roadmap will present a set of concrete recommendations for accelerating action on habitat in Africa at local level.
A rich and varied programme
Focusing on the issues of sustainable, accessible, and inclusive habitat in Africa, the event will offer a wide range of formats facilitating content sharing and networking: collaborative workshops, roundtables and debates on challenges and opportunities ahead, Pitch Corner to showcase best practices, networking moments and b2b spaces to encourage exchange, networking and the sharing of experiences. A total of 100 speakers will be taking part in around 30 sessions.
In particular, the programme will address the issues of mitigation, adaptation and financing; the tools and drivers for action: decentralised cooperation, urban planning; and a number of key themes such as access to renewable energy, urban forestry, connectivity and access in cities, etc.
Among the partners and networks involved in the event
UN-Habitat, the OECD, the City Climate Finance Gap Fund, the Covenant of Mayors in Sub-Saharan Africa (CoM SSA), GIZ, AFD, UCLG Africa, ICLEI Africa, West African Development Bank, … and much more! Find out about all our partners here