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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 risk management : monitoring, assessment, early warning and response
(2010-10)
The recognition that people influence climate, and that our future climate depends upon our choices on global development paths, have resulted in a number of proposed global mitigation strategies.
However, science also ...
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, trade and industrial development
(2010-10)
Africa’s trade constitutes about three per cent of global trade. Exports are largely agricultural and unprocessed commodities from particularly resource-rich countries. Agriculture, mining and oil constitute more than 80 ...
Climate change and infrastructure development
(2010-10)
Weak infrastructure is a critical bottleneck in Africa’s development after decades of under-investment. Sound infrastructure would contribute significantly to achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Changes ...
Governance for peace and security in a changing climate
(2010-10)
Africa’s vulnerability arises from a combination of many factors, including extreme poverty, rising population, frequent natural disasters such as droughts and floods, and agricultural systems (crop and livestock production) ...
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 ...
Changements climatiques, agriculture et sécurité alimentaire : document de travail no 2
(2010-10)
Les changements climatiques soulèvent de graves problèmes pour l’agriculture et la sécurité alimentaire en Afrique. Ils ont un impact direct sur la production alimentaire en modifiant les conditions
agroécologiques et des ...