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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, ...
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 ...
Governance and leadership response to climate change
(2010-10)
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 ...
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 ...
Changements climatiques et développment des infrastructures : document de travail no 8
(2010-10)
Après des décennies d’investissements insuffisants, le mauvais état des infrastructures en Afrique est un frein majeur au développement du continent. Une infrastructure en bon état contribuerait nettement à la réalisation ...
Changements climatiques et développement humain : document de travail no 3
(2010-10)
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 ...
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 ...
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) ...