In 2025, China-Africa climate cooperation has entered a new phase of scaling up and diversification. Amid the global energy transition, China and Africa are deepening cooperation across renewable energy, clean technologies, climate-friendly infrastructure, and critical minerals—injecting strong green momentum into Africa’s sustainable development.
The coverage and depth of China-Africa climate cooperation continue to expand, with an increasingly broad and dynamic landscape. In 2025, 56 new climate action projects were recorded across 25 African countries, covering multiple regions of the continent.
Notably, the 2025 update of the Tracker introduces critical minerals as a new category, reflecting the growing importance of mineral value chains in supporting clean energy transitions and green industrialisation.
Chinese stakeholders are deeply engaged across projects through a range of models, including EPC contracts, investment, technology transfer, and equipment supply—demonstrating broad and multi-layered participation across project lifecycles.
Beyond project implementation, China-Africa climate exchange is also becoming more frequent and long-term. In 2025, the two sides conducted 16 high-level climate exchange activities, mainly in the form of memorandums of understanding, capacity-building initiatives, and strategic agreements, with a focus on clean technologies, green industrialisation, and skills transfer.
These interactions increasingly go beyond project-based cooperation toward longer-term partnerships, laying a strong foundation for deepening green collaboration and contributing China-Africa insights to global climate governance.
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Special thanks go to Yimei Wei and Yunong Wu for their work on the graphics and analysis, also thanks to Marry, Karani, Trevor, Ovigwe, Simba, Huiyi, Kalinda, Rugare, Yike, Yunong, Shuhua, for collecting the underlying data
The data was collated primarily from a range of sources, mainly including the Press Releases on websites of stakeholders involved (government, corporate, financiers), Belt and Road Portal websites, China International Contractors Associations and Media outlets (China, global, African) If you spot any gaps or have any enquiries, feel free to reach out if you have any questions : yikefu@developmentreimagined.com
