Team Europe Pavilion opens on the African Climate Summit 2025

On September 8, the European Union (EU), along with its Member States, inaugurated the Team Europe Pavilion on the Second Africa Climate Summit (ACS2), in Addis Ababa, within the presence of African and worldwide companions and different dignitaries. The official opening was led by Teresa Ribera, European Commission Executive Vice-President for a Clean, Just and Competitive Transition, Sofie From-Emmesberger, EU Ambassador to Ethiopia, Javier Niño Pérez, EU Ambassador to the African Union, Semereta Sewasew, State Minister of Finance for Economic Cooperation of Ethiopia, Moses Vilakati, African Union Commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development, Blue Economy and Sustainable Environment, and Jean-Luc Crucke, Minister of Mobility, Climate and Ecological Transition of Belgium, on behalf of all EU member states. On the yr of each the 50 anniversary of the EU-Ethiopian relations and the 25 anniversary of the AU-EU partnership (#AUEU25), it represents the sturdy joint dedication of Europe and Africa to speed up local weather motion, deepen cooperation, and display how Global Gateway investments ship actual outcomes for individuals and the planet.

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Over the three days of the occasion, this Pavilion was the central stage for Team Europe’s engagement on the Africa Climate Summit 2. It hosted high-level debates, signings and public dialogues on points on the coronary heart of the worldwide local weather agenda: increasing entry to scrub and renewable power, creating modern financing devices for Africa’s inexperienced transition, and defending forests, water assets, and biodiversity because the pure capital on which livelihoods rely. The Team Europe Pavilion showcased the vary of the EU–AU local weather partnership, from flagship investments like RISED in Ethiopia to continent-wide cooperation on carbon markets, sustainable finance, and the simply transition away from fossil fuels.

Executive Vice-President Teresa Ribera underlined the importance of this joint effort: “This Pavilion is a living demonstration of Europe and Africa’s shared climate ambition. Together, we are showing that global goals can be translated into local action; into clean energy for households and businesses, into jobs for young people, into resilient ecosystems that safeguard future generations. Global Gateway is Europe’s proposal to Africa and the world: to work as equal partners, not as donors, to build a sustainable future side by side.”

Minister of Mobility, Climate and Ecological Transition of Belgium, Jean-Luc Crucke, mentioned on the opening: ”The Team Europe Pavilion illustrates our collective dedication to constructing a sustainable, simply and resilient future, in shut partnership with our African buddies. Belgium is proud to assist the Africa Climate Summit, an initiative that interprets local weather ambitions into concrete native motion: entry to scrub power, safety of pure assets, and creation of financial alternatives for the youthful generations.” 

State Minister of Finance for Economic Cooperation of Ethiopia, Semereta Sewasew, famous: “We deeply value our partnership with the EU and Team Europe and believe there is considerable
potential to expand its scope. By leveraging existing frameworks and developing new ones, we can significantly boost investment flows through the EU’s Global Gateway Initiative.”

About this opening, EU Ambassador to Ethiopia, Sofie From-Emmesberger, noticed the tangible influence of this partnership: “Ethiopia is one of the clearest examples of what Team Europe
means in practice. With the launch of the RISED programme, we are investing in renewable energy that will power schools, clinics, and enterprises across the country. This is the Global Gateway at work, bringing innovation, resilience, and opportunity.”

The EU Ambassador to the African Union, Javier Niño Pérez, highlighted the continental dimension: “As we mark 25 years of the AU-EU partnership and put together for the AU-EU Summit on
November 24-25 in Luanda, local weather motion is on the core of what we ship collectively. To reply to the urgency of the local weather disaster, in addition to to grab the alternatives of a low-carbon future. As an instance, The EU’s funding on renewable power technology capability will present 100 million individuals in Africa with entry to electrical energy by 2030. The EU and its Member States stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the African Union as it’s demonstrated by the strong Team Europe participation at this landmark African Climate Summit. The EU stays totally dedicated and a dependable associate to assist Africa’s path in direction of the inexperienced, round, climate-neutral and digital transition.”

The Team Europe Pavilion was designed as an area for dialogue and trade, bringing collectively companions, governments, non-public sector, civil society, and youth voices. It is a transparent instance of
how Team Europe mobilises assets, know-how, and collaboration to realize the priorities of the African Union and the European Union alike. The African Climate Summit 2025 is happening at a decisive second on the highway to COP30 and to the AU-EU Summit. 

The Team Europe Pavilion is an element of a bigger EU participation on the ACS 2025 with Executive Vice-President taking part in a lot of occasions such because the High-level Panel on the African Single Electricity Market, a High Level Event on International Carbon Markets and Pricing, the Africa-Europe High-Level Policymakers Dialogue on Energy Transition Minerals and the Signing Ceremony of the Global Gateway Flagship ‘RISED Ethiopia’. Climate motion is a predominant EU political precedence and is on the coronary heart of EU partnership with Africa: not solely as an environmental crucial, however as the muse of prosperity, stability, and alternative for future generations.