Africa

Nairobi will host the first-ever Africa Carbon Removal Summit on April 14–15, 2026. It’s a milestone for a continent that has enormous CDR potential but has been largely left out of the conversation. Mapping CDR in Sub-Saharan Africa Strathmore University’s Agri-Food Innovation Centre (SAFIC) has been running a research program to map the CDR landscape across sub-Saharan Africa. Their stakeholder engagement sessions — the latest held on March 4 in Nairobi — are surfacing critical findings about the state of the field. ...

Kenya just demonstrated what serious carbon market regulation looks like — and several big projects didn’t survive the scrutiny. KOKO Networks: The Headline Collapse KOKO Networks, a climate-tech company selling carbon credits from clean cookstove distribution, collapsed into administration after the Kenyan government denied it a Letter of Authorization under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. The problem? KOKO claimed 93% of woodfuel in their target areas came from deforested sources. The actual figure in cities like Nairobi is closer to 38%. That single metric inflated their credits by over 2.4×, turning roughly $7 million worth of legitimate reductions into $15 million of claimed credits. ...