- Accelerate establishment of financing mechanism to support ClimDev Africa.
- Implementation of Great Green Wall of the Sahara and Sahel Initiative to be based on outcomes and recommendations of pre-feasibility study.
- Increases linkages to other relevant partnerships (i.e. Peace & Security; MDGs (Health, Agriculture); Energy; and Science, Information Society and Space partnerships) to reinforce mutual efforts towards common goals.
- Joint AU-EU work now has to focus bridging positions on delivering an ambitious and legally binding post-2012 climate agreement by the end of 2010 at the Cancun Climate Conference.
- Joint work on the implementation of EU Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) strategy for Developing Countries and African DRR Plan of Action, based on EC participation in 2nd African Ministerial on DRR, with the goal of facilitating integration of DRR and climate change adaptation.
- Ensure a core of experts from Regional Economic Communities, UNECA and regional financial institutions are included the partnership work and meetings.