Where the Decisions Get Made
Dated climate and energy events across Africa and the global transition. From COP31 opening in Antalya this month to COP32 in Addis Ababa, the first African-hosted COP since Sharm el-Sheikh.
Every entry below carries a verified date and venue, or is marked clearly where the organiser has not confirmed one. We list what a reader might attend or track, not every industry exhibition. Entries are removed one month after they pass.
Five of the thirteen are Nigerian or carry a direct Nigerian read-through. Where two listings disagree on a date, we print the organiser's and say so.
November 2026
This month
The African Group of Negotiators, chaired by Ghana, has asked for three additional agenda items: tripling adaptation finance, a Green Climate Fund needs assessment dormant since 2013, and a formal trade and climate dialogue.
Watch agenda adoption on day one. An item routed into presidency consultations carries no negotiated text and no deadline.
2027
Confirmed dates
Hosted by the governments of Kenya, Norway and the United States with the International Energy Agency. Kenya presented a $600 million institutional clean cooking investment pack at the UN General Assembly in September.
The number to watch is deployment against the $2.2 billion pledged at the 2024 Paris summit, of which roughly $740 million had moved in two years.
The continent's largest mining investment gathering, and the first test of the World Bank minerals compacts signed in October by Egypt, Malawi, Mauritania and Zambia.
Those compacts sit against a $19 billion support plan for FY26 to FY30 with no per-country allocation published. Indaba is where allocations usually surface.
Tenth edition, covering solar, storage, generation, transmission, distribution and electric mobility, with country pavilions and free conference access.
Relevant this year because Nigerian manufacturers spent over ₦1.3 trillion on self-generation in 2025 and more than 30% have moved off-grid. The buyers in the room are leaving the utility.
Announced priorities include mobilising capital into energy infrastructure, transmission and grid resilience, and cross-border trade through regional power pools.
Transmission is the live question. Africa's binding constraint has moved from generation to wires, and South Africa's privately run transmission guarantee vehicle is the structure to ask about.
Convened under the Ministry of Petroleum Resources. Covers upstream and downstream oil and gas, refining, LNG, power generation and pipelines, alongside renewables integration and energy financing.
The federal summit where Nigerian energy policy gets argued in public. Watch for whether tariff reform returns to the agenda while sector arrears stand.
Covers battery and energy storage, solar deployment, grid stability, and cross-border electricity trade. Organised by Terrapinn, with free admission listed.
South Africa front-loaded 4,600 MW of storage procurement in October to cut curtailment. This is the trade event where that pipeline gets priced.
Spans upstream, midstream, downstream, power and utilities, and future energy systems including hydrogen, carbon capture and automation.
Egypt holds one of the four AfDB hydrogen grants, $3.55 million for Project Ra, and signed a World Bank minerals compact in October. Both threads surface here.
Covers joint energy and water planning, nuclear development, customer-generated electricity and cross-border power trade.
Customer-generated electricity is the thread to follow. Behind-the-meter capacity across African cities is installed and unpaid for by any system operator.
Twenty-sixth edition. Exhibition runs 29 June to 1 July, with the Nigerian Content Seminar on 28 June and the Strategic Conference closing on 1 July.
Nigeria's largest energy convening. The Nigerian Content Seminar is the part worth tracking, because local content rules decide who captures value from the majors-to-independents rotation.
The 2026 edition generated more than $17 billion in new deals and commitments, with a further $16 billion of bankable projects presented to investors. It drew about 12,000 delegates from over 100 countries.
Those are the largest published deal figures of any African energy event. Whether they convert from commitment to disbursement is this issue's running question.
Dates not yet confirmed
Listed because they matter, not because they are fixed
Running under the theme of energy systems of the future and balancing Africa's needs with global goals.
Ethiopia was endorsed by the African Group and confirmed at the COP30 plenary, with Nigeria accepting the proposal after bidding to host in Lagos.
An African-hosted COP changes which arguments get floor time. The adaptation finance items Africa is pushing at Antalya this month will arrive in Addis either settled or still homeless.
Dates are taken from the organiser where one publishes them, and otherwise from two independent listings that agree. Where a date is unconfirmed we say so rather than printing a best guess.
Events are removed one month after they close. Recently passed in October 2026: the Nigeria Energy Exhibition in Lagos, where NERC asked the World Bank to resplit the DARES fund, and the Carbon Markets Africa Summit in Kigali.
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