The African Ministerial Conference on Meteorology (AMCOMET) was established in 2010 in Nairobi, Kenya as a high-level mechanism to foster the development of weather and climate services and their applications to meet sector specific societal needs in Africa. it would be appropriate for AMCOMET and AMCEN to work closely in an integrated manner to develop sector-specific climate risk and impact indices for the African Group of climate change negotiators as an alliance of African member states that represents the interests of the region in the international climate change negotiations, with a common and unified voice.

This note presents the key areas for transition to a circular economy, namely the policy and regulatory framework needed to support the circular economy; the green financing mechanism; and retooling and reskilling, awareness-raising and knowledge-sharing. It highlights opportunities for the circular economy in Africa and concludes by focusing attention on a number of potential areas for action, including scaling up existing circular economy practices; integrating the circular economy into national and regional development plans; information and knowledge management regarding the circular economy. Other areas of action include advancing political will; supporting access to affordable green financing and sustainable markets, with a particular focus on micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises.