Policy & Finance

Climate Policy & Finance in Africa

How much climate finance flows into African countries? How large are fossil fuel subsidies? Which economies are pricing carbon? Explore the policy and finance landscape behind the transition.

Aligning money with climate goals

This dashboard tracks clean energy finance, fossil fuel subsidies, and carbon pricing instruments across African countries.

The metrics combine international flows to clean energy, subsidies to fossil fuels as a share of GDP, and carbon pricing coverage and levels. This allows users to see where capital supports decarbonization, and where policy still supports fossil fuels.

Dashboard Highlights

Data sources: Our World in Data, OECD and UN SDG indicators (via OWID grapher). All charts focus on African countries.

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Countries
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Latest finance year
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Median fossil fuel subsidies (% GDP)

Use the tabs below to explore finance flows, subsidies, carbon pricing coverage and a country-level registry for downloads and policy briefs.

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International Clean Energy Finance (latest year per country)
International financial flows to developing countries in support of clean energy (constant 2022 USD)
International finance & subsidies snapshot
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Latest finance year --
International finance for clean energy
Clean energy finance (latest) --
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Change over period --
Fossil fuel subsidies (latest)
Subsidies (% of GDP) --
Subsidies per capita (USD) --
Total fossil fuel subsidies (bn USD) --
Carbon pricing (latest)
Carbon pricing coverage --
Emissions-weighted carbon price --
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DATASET CURATED, VERIFIED & DESIGNED BY PaneoTech FOR CLIMATE WATCH AFRICA
Fossil Fuel Subsidies in Africa (latest year)
Compare total subsidies, per capita amounts, or subsidies as a share of GDP
Metric:
Country subsidy pathway
Subsidies as % of GDP over time for the selected African country
DATASET CURATED, VERIFIED & DESIGNED BY PaneoTech FOR CLIMATE WATCH AFRICA
Share of CO₂ Emissions Covered by Carbon Pricing
Coverage by carbon tax or emissions trading system (ETS), latest year
Coverage
Emissions-Weighted Carbon Price
Average price on covered emissions (latest year)
Price level
DATASET CURATED, VERIFIED & DESIGNED BY PaneoTech FOR CLIMATE WATCH AFRICA
Country Clean energy finance (latest, USD) Latest finance year Subsidies (% GDP) Subsidies per capita (USD) Total subsidies (bn USD) Carbon pricing coverage (%) Carbon price (per tCO₂) Carbon tax instrument
DATASET CURATED, VERIFIED & DESIGNED BY PaneoTech FOR CLIMATE WATCH AFRICA
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