Morocco is a leader among African nations in the race to mitigate and adapt to climate change by protecting the environment and following a path of sustainable and decentralised development. Yet, as the authors shows the new guidelines are not being consistently followed due to economic and administrative hurdles. The country is almost entirely dependent on fossil fuels for its energy supply and imports most of them but intends to raise renewable power generation to 50 per cent by 2030 while reducing energy consumption through increased efficiency, The Kingdom’s National Initiative for Human Development is meant to make funding available to local infrastructure, capacity building and employment generating projects at the grassroot level. Abroad, Morocco has established economic partnerships with several West African and other countries to develop renewable energy generation projects with the support of international climate finance agencies.
