COMESA Institutions

The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) is a regional economic community established in 1994 and brings together 21 African countries into a cooperative framework for sustainable economic growth and prosperity through regional integration. With funding from the European Union Commission and other partners, COMESA, through its Climate Change Programme , has supported various climate change interventions including: participation of Member States in the negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change for a sustainable global solution to the climate change menace; domestication of Multilateral Environmental Agreements including the Paris Agreement and implementation of their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs); piloting flagship practical ecosystem-based adaptation and mitigation actions with a focus on climate-smart agriculture in Member States; and enhanced access by Member States to climate finance to implement their NDCs and sustainable development goals (SDG) priorities.