Non-State Actors Towards A Leading Role In The Implementation Of The Paris Agreement

Réseau Climat & Développement (RC&D – Climate & Development Network) brings together mainly African French-speaking advocacy and ground-level NGOs from 21 countries, which work for a local and/or national development in the face of the challenges brought by climate change. This network was created in 2007 to make the voice of the French-speaking civil society heard in the national, regional and international political arenas on climate issues. It works to integrate energy and climate issues into local development policies, to fight poverty and to favour sustainable and resilient development to climate change. RC&D focuses on bringing forward the activity of civil society organisa- tions through a bottom up approach to ensure that the concerns of the most vulnerable are effectively taken into account by climate policies and national/regional implementation processes alike. Every year, RC&D publishes its vision, enriched with political recommendations. Between 2010 and 2015, its annual reports have focused successively on: (1) taking into account climate and energy issues into local development policies; (2) fair and efficient climate fun- ding governance; (3) the drafting of recommendations for the Rio+20 Summit; (4) the integration of climate and energy constraints into development practices; (5) the key role of renewable energies in Africa to fight poverty and climate change; (6) and the challenges the Paris agreement must take into account in order to address African populations’ needs. In 2016, RC&D focused its efforts on the respect of the commitments made during COP21 through the adoption of the Paris agreement to ensure climate justice. Emphasis is put this year on the reinforcement of non-state actors’ role in the adaptation planning and implementation of the different processes and initiatives drawn from the Paris agreement and currently underway on the African continent.

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