The Africa Climate Talks aim to engage Africans from all spheres of life in the lead up to COP 21, which will be held in Paris from 30 November to 11 December 2015; to stimulate a wide-ranging discourse informed by the ...

This document focuses on Small Island developing States, least developed countries and landlocked developing countries at Ninth session of the Committee on Sustainable Development and the Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable ...

To date, all global assessments have concurred that Africa is the Earth’s most vulnerable region to climate change. The severity of Africa’s vulnerability to climate change was confirmed by the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report. ...

ClimDev-Africa aims to construct a solid foundation in Africa for the response to climate change based on: the building of a solid science and observational infrastructure; the enabling of strong working partnerships between ...

Straddled by the equator, the African continent receives high average levels of insolation round the year. In very many areas there prevail high average levels of ambient temperature and rates of evaporation as well as low ...

Les changements climatiques peuvent avoir des effets négatifs sur le développement social et humain, le compromettre, l’entraver et le faire régresser. Mais ils ont aussi le potentiel de l’encourager et d’y contribuer ...

Financial support for mitigation and adaptation in developing countries is a ‘make or break’ component of a United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) agreement in Copenhagen in December 2009. In light ...

Convening the Climate for Development in Africa (ClimDev-Africa) Steering Committee meeting in May 2015 implies that significant activities have already been undertaken by the program during the first quarter of 2015. This ...

This document focuses on Harnessing innovations, technologies and management of Africa’s natural resources for transformation: strategic approaches, results, challenges and opportunities. The Special Initiatives Division ...