The Carbon Markets Africa Summit returns to Kigali this month, bringing governments, project developers, credit buyers and financiers to the Kigali Convention Centre for three days of negotiation over who sets the terms of the continent's carbon market.
The summit runs from the thirteenth to the fifteenth of October, in the year twenty twenty six, at the Kigali Convention Centre in the Rwandan capital. It is organised by the Vuka Group, and this edition has confirmed participation from twenty four African countries and forty five countries in total, with more than one hundred speakers, over fifty investors, buyers and financiers, twenty African governments and more than forty project developers.
That composition is the point of the event. African carbon markets have spent several years in what the sector calls readiness, building registries, methodologies and national frameworks, without a matching flow of transactions. The summit is positioned around the shift from readiness to delivery, which in practice means moving from policy design to signed offtake agreements at a price that makes projects financeable.
The agenda covers integrity and the credibility of credits after several years of scrutiny of offset quality, benefit sharing with the communities that host projects, and the question of whether African credits continue to be sold cheaply into voluntary markets or are repriced through compliance demand and Article 6 arrangements under the Paris framework.
Rwanda has positioned itself as a convening centre for this market rather than simply a supplier of credits, and hosting the summit at the Kigali Convention Centre sits alongside the country's broader bid to be the venue of choice for African financial and climate gatherings.
Senior executives attending will find the investor and buyer density unusually high for a regional climate event, which is what distinguishes it from the policy conferences that dominate the calendar.
