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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Good governance is a critical element required for effective and sustained peace and security, economic growth and human development. As African States make strenuous efforts to meet the developmental goals enshrined in ...

Although climate change can adversely impact, frustrate, deter, and reverse social and human development, it also holds the potential to foster and contribute positively. Climate change impacts, therefore, require improved ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...