Ahead of COP28, the AU-EU partnership can help drive global climate change and energy transition agendas forward. ECDPM’s Alfonso Medinilla and Afaf Zarkik and Larabi Jaïdi from the Policy Center for the New South argue that a fruitful collaboration between the two continents starts with finding common ground, the acknowledgement of tensions over decarbonisation, as well as focusing on delivering rapid results and communicating more effectively on their progress.