Report on climate change

Abstract

This special session of the CSD comes one year after the coming into force of the Kyoto protocol, a key instrument in combating global climate change. This report aims to inform the CSD 14 on the status of climate change in Africa. Specifically, section 2 discusses climate change in the context of sustainable development, section 3 reviews strategies that have been used to combat climate change in the region in the recent past, while section 4 analyses the region’s vulnerability to climate change impacts response activities and means of implementation. This paper concludes by identifying issue and questions to be considered for integration into future climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies of African countries.