Sierra Leone has no overarching climate-change act, confirmed by an IMF technical-assistance diagnostic stating that "overarching climate change legislation integrating and coordinating sectoral efforts is yet to be enacted." Its climate governance instead rests on the Environment Protection Agency Act (2022), the National Climate Change Policy (2021), and its 2021 updated NDC, submitted on 4 August 2021. The National Protected Area Authority and Conservation Trust Fund Act 2012 allows the Conservation Trust Fund to be financed by carbon-trading revenue, Sierra Leone's closest legal carbon-finance mechanism even though no dedicated carbon-market law exists.
Projects
Freetown the Treetown
Freetown City Council's campaign to plant and grow a million trees on the city's slopes and water sources, with every tree tracked and community growers paid by mobile money.
Gola Rainforest REDD+
West Africa's first VCS+CCB REDD+ project guards Sierra Leone's largest surviving Upper Guinean rainforest.
Project Buffalo
Restoring 15,000 ha of degraded community land in the Upper Guinean Forest, with a Microsoft carbon-removal offtake.
Winch Energy Mini-Grids, Sierra Leone
Solar and battery mini-grids in Koinadugu, Bombali and Tonkolili districts, part of Winch Energy's Uganda and Sierra Leone portfolio.
Regulation
NDC
"Sierra Leone's NDC responds to Article 4, paragraph 2 of the PA, which requires parties to the UNFCCC to prepare, communicate and maintain successive NDCs that they intend to achieve. It also aligns with the MTNDP, AU Vision 2063, and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)."Executive Summary, p.x
Grounded in the National Climate Change Policy (NCCP) and National Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan (NCCS&AP); no overarching climate-change ACT exists in Sierra Leone — confirmed explicitly by an IMF technical-assistance source ("overarching climate change legislation integrating and coordinating sectoral efforts is yet to be enacted").
Issuing body: Environment Protection Agency Sierra Leone — EPA-SL · Single source
Carbon market
No carbon market instrument located.
Forest / REDD+
"Being an Act to provide for the establishment of the National Protected Area Authority and Conservation Trust Fund, to promote biodiversity conservation, wildlife management, research, to provide for the sale of ecosystems services in the National Protected Areas and to provide for other related matters." / "22. (1) The funds of the trust shall consist of– ... (c) revenue generated from carbon trading; (d) revenue generated from the sale of ecosystems services;"long title; s.22(1)(c) and (d); signature and Parliament lines; Supplement to the Sierra Leone Gazette Vol. CXLIII, No. 60, 1 November 2012
Establishes Sierra Leone's National Protected Area Authority and a Conservation Trust Fund for biodiversity conservation, wildlife management and research in the national protected areas, with the sale of ecosystem services and revenue from carbon trading among the trust's funding sources.
Issuing body: Parliament of Sierra Leone · Single source