African ministers are meeting mid-April for a special high-level event of the 7th Africa Carbon Forum. Africa would lose more than most from unchecked climate change but it will benefit more than most from strong climate agreements and effective action. This is a key time for Africa, with its rising economic potential and young, growing populations vulnerable to climate change to seize all the rising opportunities emerging in 2015.

Read editorial by UNFCCC head Christiana Figueres.