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Book Synopsis Africa's Common Climate Response and Action Plan by : Romy Chevallier
Download or read book Africa's Common Climate Response and Action Plan written by Romy Chevallier and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The AU's Climate Change and Resilient Development Strategy and Action Plan seeks to harmonise the continent's approach to climate change over the next decade, setting out the guiding principles, priorities and action areas for enhanced climate cooperation. Informed and guided by the existing climate efforts of African countries, the strategy provides a framework around which Africa, as a continent, can build resilient societies, unlock mitigation potential, leverage the opportunities of a burgeoning green economy and develop partnerships in support of a just, inclusive and equitable transition. A key determinant of the strategy's long-term success will be its ability to transform these prescriptive intentions into meaningful action by identifying specific entry points for joint execution. The strategy's thematic and non-binding nature can support these implementation goals by complementing national- and regional-level action.
Book Synopsis Climate Change in Africa by : Michael Addaney
Download or read book Climate Change in Africa written by Michael Addaney and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-06-20 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection chronicles the public policy responses to climate change and current and potential impacts that will affect critical and priority sectors within and across African countries now and in the coming decades. Contributions cover governance and policy responses to climate change, emphasizing continental governance and policy responses, national governance and policy responses (what selected countries in Africa are doing), and local or community policy and programmatic responses (what some selected major African communities are doing). Each chapter adopts multi-disciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches, combining insights from social and policy sciences, emphasizing existing gaps, particularly in the area of decision-making, governance and local climate action. The book offers both theoretical and practical contributions, with the aim of advancing academic discourse and thinking, policymaking and implementation of climate interventions in Africa.
Book Synopsis Climate Change and Health by : Walter Leal Filho
Download or read book Climate Change and Health written by Walter Leal Filho and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major objective of this volume is to create and share knowledge about the socio-economic, political and cultural dimensions of climate change. The authors analyze the effects of climate change on the social and environmental determinants of the health and well-being of communities (i.e. poverty, clean air, safe drinking water, food supplies) and on extreme events such as floods and hurricanes. The book covers topics such as the social and political dimensions of the ebola response, inequalities in urban migrant communities, as well as water-related health effects of climate change. The contributors recommend political and social-cultural strategies for mitigate, adapt and prevent the impacts of climate change to human and environmental health. The book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners interested in new methods and tools to reduce risks and to increase health resilience to climate change.
Book Synopsis Enhancing the Climate Resilience of Africa's Infrastructure by : Raffaello Cervigni
Download or read book Enhancing the Climate Resilience of Africa's Infrastructure written by Raffaello Cervigni and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To sustain Africa’s growth, and accelerate the eradication of extreme poverty, investment in infrastructure is fundamental. In 2010, the Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic found that to enable Africa to fill its infrastructure gap, some US$ 93 billion per year for the next decade will need to be invested. The Program for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA), endorsed in 2012 by the continent’s Heads of State and Government, lays out an ambitious long-term plan for closing Africa’s infrastructure including trough step increases in hydroelectric power generation and water storage capacity. Much of this investment will support the construction of long-lived infrastructure (e.g. dams, power stations, irrigation canals), which may be vulnerable to changes in climatic patterns, the direction and magnitude of which remain significantly uncertain. Enhancing the Climate Resilience of Africa 's Infrastructure evaluates -using for the first time a single consistent methodology and the state-of-the-arte climate scenarios-, the impacts of climate change on hydro-power and irrigation expansion plans in Africa’s main rivers basins (Niger, Senegal, Volta, Congo, Nile, Zambezi, Orange); and outlines an approach to reduce climate risks through suitable adjustments to the planning and design process. The book finds that failure to integrate climate change in the planning and design of power and water infrastructure could entail, in scenarios of drying climate conditions, losses of hydropower revenues between 5% and 60% (depending on the basin); and increases in consumer expenditure for energy up to 3 times the corresponding baseline values. In in wet climate scenarios, business-as-usual infrastructure development could lead to foregone revenues in the range of 15% to 130% of the baseline, to the extent that the larger volume of precipitation is not used to expand the production of hydropower. Despite the large uncertainty on whether drier or wetter conditions will prevail in the future in Africa, the book finds that by modifying existing investment plans to explicitly handle the risk of large climate swings, can cut in half or more the cost that would accrue by building infrastructure on the basis of the climate of the past.
Book Synopsis Africa - Making Development Climate Resilient by : Weltbank
Download or read book Africa - Making Development Climate Resilient written by Weltbank and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This strategy for making development Climate-Resilient in Sub-Saharan Africa is the World Bank's operational response to climate variability and change on the continent. Grounded in a climate risk review of the Africa Region's sustainable development portfolio, it adds the climate change dimension to the Region's development strategy and business plan, the Africa Action Plan (AAP, 2009-2012), and will be an integral part of the AAP in the future. The AAP and the climate change strategy are a sound and realistic framework for climate-resilient development in Sub-Saharan Africa. The strategy is based on the premise that increased climate variability threatens the development gains of African countries, and that these effects need to be anticipated so that development efforts can be made more resilient to climate change. Climate has always featured prominently in African development, and people across the continent have been living with and adapting to a high degree of climate variability and its associated risks for many centuries. Yet the accelerated changes in the climate and increasing incidence of climatic disasters (floods, droughts, cyclones) during the last century, and the scientific consensus that Africa is the continent most vulnerable and least able to cope with these changes, have brought these risks into sharper focus, and made the need to address them more urgent.
Book Synopsis Climate Action in Southern Africa by : Philani Moyo
Download or read book Climate Action in Southern Africa written by Philani Moyo and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-27 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using climate justice as an analytical tool, this volume examines the role of local mitigation and adaptation actions in Southern African in furthering climate resilient development. Climate Action in Southern Africa examines the intrinsic connection between local climate actions, climate resilient development and strides towards a just transition. The theoretical grounding in climate justice allows the authors to analyze whether current climate actions in Africa are truly effective for the poor and marginalized whose lives and livelihoods are impacted by a climate crisis largely not of their making. The authors also question the extent to which pathways to net zero carbon emissions by 2050 are achievable in Africa and ask whether this can be attained without undermining livelihoods and human development. Overall, the book argues that for any transition to be a just transition it has to be aligned with the pursuit of sustainable development and climate justice for current and future generations on the African continent. Drawing out key factors including politics, gender and migration, this volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change, climate justice and African development.
Book Synopsis The Geography of Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Africa by : Patrick Brandful Cobbinah
Download or read book The Geography of Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Africa written by Patrick Brandful Cobbinah and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a comprehensive look at several cases of climate change adaptation responses across various sectors and geographical areas in urban Africa and places them within a solid theoretical context. Each chapter is a state-of-the-art overview of a significant topic on climate change adaptation in urban Africa and is written by a leading expert in the field. In addition to the focus on the geography of urban adaptation to climate change in Africa, this collection offers a broader perspective by blending the use of case studies and theory based research. It examines transformations in climate change adaptation and its future orientation from the perspectives of urban planners, political economists, environmentalists, ecologists, economists and geographers, thereby addressing the challenges facing African cities adaptation responses from all angles. Providing up-to-date and authoritative contributions covering the key aspects of climate change adaptation in urban Africa, this book will be of great interest to policymakers, practitioners, scholars and students of geography, urban development and management, environmental science and policy, disaster management, as well as those in the field of urban planning.
Author :Mutanga, Shingirirai Savious Publisher :Africa Institute of South Africa ISBN 13 :0798303751 Total Pages :238 pages Book Rating :4.7/5 (983 download)
Book Synopsis Africa in a Changing Global Environment by : Mutanga, Shingirirai Savious
Download or read book Africa in a Changing Global Environment written by Mutanga, Shingirirai Savious and published by Africa Institute of South Africa. This book was released on 2013-10-20 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa is one continent severely affected by the ravaging effects of global environment change yet it is least responsible for this. The continent's rural and urban poor are particularly vulnerable to reduced agricultural production, worsening food security, increased incidence of both flooding and drought, spreading of disease and heightening risk of conflict over scarce land and water resources. As such this timely book consisting of chapters authored by scholars from multidisciplinary backgrounds provides the reader a variety of contexts from which to understand the impacts of global environmental change and how affected African communities are adapting an mitigating the scourge. In addition it discusses different models for mitigation and adaptation applicable to local contexts.
Book Synopsis Climate Change and Africa by : Pak Sum Low
Download or read book Climate Change and Africa written by Pak Sum Low and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the twenty-first century, no environmental issue is of such truly global magnitude as the issue of climate change. The poorer, developing countries are the least equipped to adapt to the potential effects of climate change, although most of them have played an insignificant role in causing it. African countries are amongst the poorest of the developing countries. This book presents the issues of most relevance to Africa, such as past and present climate, desertification, biomass burning and its implications for atmospheric chemistry and climate, energy generation, sea-level rise, ENSO-induced drought and flood, adaptation, disaster risk reduction, the UNFCCC and Kyoto Protocol (especially the Clean Development Mechanism), capacity-building, and sustainable development. It provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of these and many other issues, with chapters by the leading experts from a range of disciplines. Climate Change and Africa will prove to be an invaluable reference for all researchers and policy makers with an interest in climate change and Africa.
Book Synopsis Adaptation to Climate Change in Southern Africa by : Steffen Bauer
Download or read book Adaptation to Climate Change in Southern Africa written by Steffen Bauer and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2010 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adverse climate impacts are already evident across Southern Africa and pose a serious threat to the development prospects of the region's societies. Sustainable development in this region will depend on the rapid development and implementation of effective adaptation measures.This volume identifies the new socioeconomic and political boundaries to development that result from ongoing climate change in Southern Africa. The collected papers explore the region's potential for a transition to development strategies that combine meaningful socioeconomic investment and adaptation measures while also improving livelihoods in the region. The chapters are backed up by detailed case studies which underscore the urgent need for national governments and multilateral agencies to develop strategies to support Southern Africa's societies in adapting to climate change.
Book Synopsis Africa and the Climate Change Agenda by : James Forole Jarso
Download or read book Africa and the Climate Change Agenda written by James Forole Jarso and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decade or so, climate change has been regularly cited as one of the biggest impediments to Africa's realization of sustainable growth and development. In particular, African leaders have been warned that, in light of the immense challenges posed by the phenomenon, the continent stands a very marginal chance of making meaningful progress towards achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015. It cannot be gainsaid that these warnings are not without basis. Climate change commands significant influence on Africa's performance; it portends innumerable socio-economic and political challenges for the continent, which has perennially garnered “breaking news” coverage largely for the appalling humanitarian catastrophes on its soil. Though it contributes only about 3.8% of the total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the continent constantly experiences the adverse impacts of climate change, as a result of its high poverty levels and low capacity to adapt. Worryingly, the effects of climate change have proved to be akin to Russian roulette, with every pull of the trigger posing risks for all, and the poor bearing the heaviest brunt because of their dependence on the surrounding environment for their survival. Today, issues relating to climate change are addressed in a plethora of treaties adopted within the UN framework. In their formal acknowledgment of the importance of climate change issues, African countries have overwhelmingly subscribed to these instruments. Africa's predicament has received formal acknowledgement in various circles. Within the inter-governmental African Union (AU) framework, on several occasions climate change has garnered the attention of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government (the Assembly), as well as the inter-ministerial level of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN). The issues have equally featured prominently within the framework of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), where Action Plan of the Environment Initiative affirms the continent's concerns vis-à-vis the challenges posed by climate change, and provides for climate change as one of the core priority areas to be addressed by the continent's leadership. The issues have equally garnered the attention of various forums, in particular the African Development Forum (ADF), a biennial multi-stakeholder gathering committed to building consensus and mobilizing partners for Africa's development. The 2010 Seventh African Development Forum (ADF VII), whose theme was “Acting on Climate Change for Sustainable Development in Africa,” was jointly organized by the Addis Ababa-based UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the AU Commission, and the Tunis-based African Development Bank (AfDB). The participants, drawn from diverse stakeholders, deliberated on the challenges and opportunities resented by climate change in Africa, and, after the five days of intensive panel discussions and parallel sessions, adopted a common statement (Consensus Statement) with some fifty-six points of agreement. This article aims to unearth the challenges and prospects in sustaining the outcomes of these principled negotiations for the African continent to make lasting progress in addressing the effects and impacts of climate change and variability.
Book Synopsis African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation by : Nicholas Oguge
Download or read book African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation written by Nicholas Oguge and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 2822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book discusses current thinking and presents the main issues and challenges associated with climate change in Africa. It introduces evidences from studies and projects which show how climate change adaptation is being - and may continue to be successfully implemented in African countries. Thanks to its scope and wide range of themes surrounding climate change, the ambition is that this book will be a lead publication on the topic, which may be regularly updated and hence capture further works. Climate change is a major global challenge. However, some geographical regions are more severly affected than others. One of these regions is the African continent. Due to a combination of unfavourable socio-economic and meteorological conditions, African countries are particularly vulnerable to climate change and its impacts. The recently released IPCC special report "Global Warming of 1.5o C" outlines the fact that keeping global warming by the level of 1.5o C is possible, but also suggested that an increase by 2o C could lead to crises with crops (agriculture fed by rain could drop by 50% in some African countries by 2020) and livestock production, could damage water supplies and pose an additonal threat to coastal areas. The 5th Assessment Report produced by IPCC predicts that wheat may disappear from Africa by 2080, and that maize— a staple—will fall significantly in southern Africa. Also, arid and semi-arid lands are likely to increase by up to 8%, with severe ramifications for livelihoods, poverty eradication and meeting the SDGs. Pursuing appropriate adaptation strategies is thus vital, in order to address the current and future challenges posed by a changing climate. It is against this background that the "African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation" is being published. It contains papers prepared by scholars, representatives from social movements, practitioners and members of governmental agencies, undertaking research and/or executing climate change projects in Africa, and working with communities across the African continent. Encompassing over 100 contribtions from across Africa, it is the most comprehensive publication on climate change adaptation in Africa ever produced.
Book Synopsis Climate Risk in Africa by : Declan Conway
Download or read book Climate Risk in Africa written by Declan Conway and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book highlights the complexities around making adaptation decisions and building resilience in the face of climate risk. It is based on experiences in sub-Saharan Africa through the Future Climate For Africa (FCFA) applied research programme. It begins by dealing with underlying principles and structures designed to facilitate effective engagement about climate risk, including the robustness of information and the construction of knowledge through co-production. Chapters then move on to explore examples of using climate information to inform adaptation and resilience through early warning, river basin development, urban planning and rural livelihoods based in a variety of contexts. These insights inform new ways to promote action in policy and praxis through the blending of knowledge from multiple disciplines, including climate science that provides understanding of future climate risk and the social science of response through adaptation. The book will be of interest to advanced undergraduate students and postgraduate students, researchers, policy makers and practitioners in geography, environment, international development and related disciplines.
Book Synopsis African Union Climate Change and Resilient Development Strategy and Action Plan (2022-2032) by :
Download or read book African Union Climate Change and Resilient Development Strategy and Action Plan (2022-2032) written by and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Reducing West Africa's Vulnerability to Climate Impacts on Water Resources, Wetlands, And Desertification by : Madiodio Niasse
Download or read book Reducing West Africa's Vulnerability to Climate Impacts on Water Resources, Wetlands, And Desertification written by Madiodio Niasse and published by Iucn. This book was released on 2004 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Climate Information for Development Needs an Action Plan for Africa by :
Download or read book Climate Information for Development Needs an Action Plan for Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Accelerating Climate-Resilient and Low-Carbon Development by : Weltbank
Download or read book Accelerating Climate-Resilient and Low-Carbon Development written by Weltbank and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA) race to resilience just became more urgent with the release of the IPCC 1.5°C Special Report. The Africa region must adapt to the 0.5°C warming of the past 50 years, while at the same time prepare for the intensification of climate change impacts. The good news is that the region is not starting from zero; the bad news is that the current pace of climate action is far from adequate. The Africa Climate Business Plan (ACBP) has been a galvanizing platform for climate action since its launch in December 2015, yet it must be even more ambitious in the scale and pace of climate action in the face of a new urgency to manage climate risks and deliver on climate-resilient development. Highlights of the progress up to and including FY18 as well as the main outstanding challenges are summarized here. The report also highlights successful projects that can be replicated, key lessons learned, and reflects on future strategic directions.
