Events held at Africa Climate Week provide opportunities for participants to share experiences and engage in dialogues on challenges and opportunities faced by  the region to better address climate change issues. Events can serve as catalysts for climate action, provide a platform for knowledge sharing and can be important connectors for projects and people across the region and the world.  

Before applying, please read the event criteria below. 

Only organizations with shortlisted proposals will be contacted for further processing. 

Important: Applications that don’t fulfill criteria or are incomplete will not be considered. Multiple application requests from the same organization shall not have the same content, nor the same speakers. 

Deadline for applications: 30 June 2023, 23:00 East Africa Time (EAT)

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Note: This year, the Action Hub will be located in the most central area of the venue, where participants can meet, congregate and network over coffee and lunch. The Action Hub is ‘the’ space for dynamic and creative climate action events such as musical performances, TED-style talks, film screenings, technology demonstrations, project presentations, and more. 

If you'd like to host a 30-minute event in the Action Hub, please use the application form above. Please read the Action Hub guidelines before submitting your application. 

Here you will find more information on each of the four tracks, the core global partner supporting each track and the principles that should guide event development. 

The events to be organized during Africa Climate Week will be structured around the following four tracks: 

1. Energy systems and industry 
2. Cities, urban and rural settlements, infrastructure, and transport 
3. Land, ocean, food, and water 
4. Societies, health, livelihoods, and economies  

The events organized and delivered under all the tracks are expected to: 

• Contribute substantively to the 1st Global Stocktake process by identifying region relevant actions and timelines necessary to accelerate the progress needed to keep the 1.5C trajectory reachable; 

• Enable and support the dissemination of valuable of good practices and lessons learnt, facilitating the identification of impactful initiatives for replication or inspiration at local, subnational, national and regional level.   

• Provide a platform that fosters constructive dialogues between Parties and non-Party stakeholders, creating opportunities to explore partnerships and /strengthening of networks in the regions.

• Provide insights for enhancing the engagement of non-Party stakeholders, including regional and local governments, the private sector, investors, youth, science, academia, Indigenous Peoples, and others, thereby increasing effectiveness and active participation.

Find more detailed information on each of the four tracks and the principles that should guide event development here. 

The Action Hub is the space for dynamic and creative climate action events. It is an inclusive and participatory platform for anyone to showcase their work in the region to a regional and global audience. The timeslots are maximum of 30 minutes and provide organizations with the unique opportunity to share their initiatives, announcements, case studies, videos and more at Africa Climate Week.

Where: An open stage with seating usually located in a central area where participants congregate and network.

Format: The events included in the Action Hub program will adhere to the following criteria:

1. Events will not exceed 30 minutes, including Q&A and wrap-up.
2. 3 speakers max and organizers shall ensure geographic and gender balance among their speakers.
3. Events will be innovative in format and will avoid negotiation-style, technical PowerPoint presentations and panel discussion formats. They may take the format of, for example: TED-style talks, short film screenings followed by interactive conversations involving the audience, announcements relating to outstanding concrete climate actions, presentations of concrete climate action including demonstrations/prototypes and results of the undertaken climate action, media talk-shows, interactive debates involving the audience on-site and online, how-to events, interactive games involving knowledge or examples of climate action, etc.
4. Events will be participatory, inclusive, interactive, lively, and dynamic, involving the audience as much as possible.

Content:

1. Events will demonstrate tangible climate action and/or highlight opportunities for climate action.
2. Events will fall under one of four tracks (read more about the tracks here):
   • Energy systems and industry
   • Cities, urban and rural settlements, infrastructure, and transport
   • Land, ocean, food, and water
   • Societies, health, livelihoods, and economies

To be considered for an event slot in the Action Hub, the organizer(s) must apply online for an event before the deadline. Applications will be reviewed against the set of criteria described in these guidelines. Applicants may be contacted with questions and requests for additional information and/or resubmission. Once the selection process has concluded, only shortlisted applicants will be notified of their results. The Africa Climate Week program will then be scheduled and made available online on the UNFCCC website.

Note: It will not be possible to ask for 2 slots back-to-back to form a longer event. Application requests from the same organization shall not have the same content, nor the same speakers. For any questions, please write to Climate-Week [at] unfccc.int with the subject line, ACW Action Hub.