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Financing climate change adaptation and mitigation actions
(2010-10)
For Africa, the most critical climate change issue is to obtain sufficient financial support to manage adaptation and mitigation processes successfully, attend to development needs and continue to develop infrastructure, ...
Changements climatiques, croissance et réduction de la pauvretée : document de travail no 12
(2010-10)
Tout le monde s’accorde à penser que les changements climatiques constituent une question critique pour l’Afrique et en fait le plus grand problème, avec celui de la pauvreté, qui se pose au 21e
siècle. Les changements ...
Climate change and ecosystem sustainability
(2010-10)
Our natural environment is in crisis globally and in Africa. Ecosystems (both terrestrial and aquatic) and biodiversity are all being degraded rapidly under the present global economic system which treats the environment ...
Climate change, agriculture and food security : issue paper 2
(2010-10)
Climate change poses important challenges for agriculture and food security in Africa. It directly affects food production through changes in afro-ecological conditions and indirectly affects growth and distribution of ...
Climate change, economic growth, and poverty reduction in Africa : issue paper 12
(2010-10)
There is consensus that climate change is a critical issue for Africa and indeed its greatest challenge in the 21st century along with poverty climate change is likely to disproportionably affect the contains development ...
Changements climatiques et viabilité des écosystémes : document de travail no 9
(2010-10)
Notre environnement naturel est en crise – en Afrique comme dans le reste du monde. Les écosystèmes (aussi bien terrestres qu’aquatiques) et la biodiversité se dégradent tous rapidement dans le système économique mondial ...
Private sector response to climate change
(2010-10)
There is strong evidence from the scientific community that climate change will have a disproportionately major effect on socio-economic development in Africa. The average cost of climate change to African economies could ...
Science, technology, innovation and capacity building for addressing climate change
(2010-10)
There is general agreement that Africa’s geographical location and low adaptive capacity make it very vulnerable to the effects of climate change. The continent has a relatively warm climate, poor soils and high variability ...