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The 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference or COP30

The 30th Conference, will be held in Belém, Brazil, from 10 to 21 November 2025. The overarching objective is to build on previous COP outcomes and successes while enabling the design of future ambitions to effectively handle the global climate change challenge. The meeting will enable a series of engagements including the 30th Conference of Parties (COP30), the 20th Session of Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP20), and the 7th Conference of Parties to the Paris Agreement (CMA 7).

Forest Carbon

The forests provide trees or forest carbon which is the amount of carbon dioxide that a tree or forest could sequester or prevent from exposure to the atmosphere as it holds onto such......

Forests can store large amounts of carbon, absorbed as greenhouse gases, which could be exposed to the atmosphere when such trees are cut down or when the forests are destroyed through deforestation or bushfires. This provides a major source of sustainability as a carbon capture technology.

As a natural carbon sink, forests serve as a sustainable source of resilience and mobilization of carbon finance.

The Africa Carbon Market Inc. will support forest resource developers and managers to measure and verify emission reduction values of their forests and trees to enable them earn revenues from certified carbon credits.

Agricultural emissions

Africa Carbon Market Inc. provides support to climate-smart livestock. and crop producers to raise market-based carbon finance for sustainable livestock production Overview.

Globally, livestock production accounts for more than 25% (3.8 gigatons of CO2e) of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from food systems. Most livestock emissions come from enteric fermentation and livestock manure.

This increases the need for Sustainable livestock management practices and measures to help mitigate climate change, build the sector’s resilience to climate change impacts and contribute to food security, food nutrition and health, economic and environmental wellbeing, and the sociocultural lives of local communities. More and more intense animal production activities are critical for a country’s economic and human development, given the high nutrition requirements of the population.

Reducing emissions from livestock production requires a mixture of strategies and practices based on local contexts that improve animal diets and manure handling. While the sustainable practice embedment is improving, mobilizing finances through the mitigation approach is provided by carbon markets, including the voluntary carbon market. The Africa Carbon Market Inc. seeks to work with stakeholders on enabling increased integration of carbon audit and emission reduction strategies while enabling livestock farming operators and promoters to measure and verify their emission reduction practices and take audited values to the market for transactions that enhance provide carbon finance to farmers and industry players.

Africa Climate Finance

Africa faces significant challenges in bridging its large climate financing gap.

Given its vulnerability to climate change, it experiences more severe impacts than other parts of the world. The challenges include its large fiscal debt.

The climate funding also comes as a debt which is an additional financial burden on the region. This is in addition to the huge imbalances in the access to finance opportunities. Only the top ten countries receive 50% of climate finance, while the bottom 30 receive only 10%, leading to fewer countries accessing private finance unlike other regions.

In particular, adaptation financing presents the most disadvantaged part of climate finance. Africa Climate Finance Initiatives Some of the climate finance initiatives in Africa include the African Financial Alliance on Climate Change, a voluntary alliance for financial institutions, capital owners, and, purveyors in Africa, the Africa Climate Change Fund (ACCF), the fund that supports African governments, non-governmental organizations, and other actors to provide funding for low-carbon projects. There are also biliaterla and multilateral agencies such as the UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS), a non-financial institution that facilitates the use of climate finance, the UK Export Finance, a financial institution that can help accelerate sustainable economic growth in Africa with goals that include

• Increasing climate finance flows to Africa

• Increasing the use of non-financial institutions to help facilitate climate finance, and

• Increasing collective action to close the climate finance gap

Africa Carbon Market Inc. facilitates access to voluntary carbon finance by project promoters through offset production and sales.

What you need to know about Offset and Carbon Savings

The key issue about projects for carbon offset is to ensure that the scheme being funded achieves the carbon savings promised. This requires both the effectiveness of the project at soaking up CO2 or avoiding future emissions and the additionality of the carbon savings progressively. The challenge is to to prove additionality over the life cycle of a project beyond its baseline with absolute certainly, as one may be unsure of future developments with the project or certain of the alternative scenario without the project in existence. Offset providers must therefore also provide guarantee for their emissions savings through another project to cover any case of emerging loss of savings due to non-additionality of counts.

Offset Market Approaches

1. Offset companies could mobilize enough capital to invest in projects for offset speculative sales by funding an offset project to sell its carbon savings when certified. This helps to predict future dynamics of savings additionality– and claims of emissions value depreciation over the lifecycle of the project.

Carbon Market Certification Standards –

1. Voluntary Gold Standards – based on the Kyoto protocol, and must also show social benefits for local communities

2. Voluntary Carbon Standards – it also follows a rigorous but simplified process, thereby allowing a greater range of innovative small-scale projects.

Price and Estimation of carbon offset

1. There are various ways of estimating the precise impact of project carbon savings on climate change for certain types of activity – such as flying, which affects global temperature in various ways.

2. Again, different types of offset project will inevitably have different costs – especially given that projects may be chosen not just for the CO2 impacts but for their broader social benefits.